Comments on: Military Sexual Assault Victims Testify Before Congress http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/military-sexual-assault-victims-testify-before-congress/ The latest Politics news and blog posts from ABC News contributors and bloggers including Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos and more. Mon, 20 May 2013 22:31:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tmcginnis http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/military-sexual-assault-victims-testify-before-congress/#comment-31587536 tmcginnis Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:24:45 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=839633#comment-31587536 Good point from WildAndBlue, until the paranoid "agenda" part. What agenda? Please, the "agenda" is to get justice for victims of sexual assault, and I think most of us would sign onto that. Such a smart and informative comment gets polluted easily by language that invokes the conspiracy-theory mindset of the delusional factions of the right wing. This article should be corrected, as I am with WildAndBlue. The writer/editors don't seem to understand how the system works, and have misrepresented it in this piece. Good point from WildAndBlue, until the paranoid “agenda” part. What agenda? Please, the “agenda” is to get justice for victims of sexual assault, and I think most of us would sign onto that. Such a smart and informative comment gets polluted easily by language that invokes the conspiracy-theory mindset of the delusional factions of the right wing.

This article should be corrected, as I am with WildAndBlue. The writer/editors don’t seem to understand how the system works, and have misrepresented it in this piece.

]]> By: wildandblue http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/military-sexual-assault-victims-testify-before-congress/#comment-31575484 wildandblue Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:51:04 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=839633#comment-31575484 The language at the end is wrong. An inspector general CANNOT "throw out" a federal conviction. A general officer, in the position of what's called General Court-Martial Convening Authority, signs off on the action, promulgating the sentence of a servicemember after court-martial. Either the author of this news piece doesn't know the truth, or skewed it in order to prop up abc's agenda. The only means to alter a federal conviction is through appellate review, via the Court of Military Appeals. However, the topic is definitely an issue with a bullseye. The language at the end is wrong. An inspector general CANNOT “throw out” a federal conviction. A general officer, in the position of what’s called General Court-Martial Convening Authority, signs off on the action, promulgating the sentence of a servicemember after court-martial. Either the author of this news piece doesn’t know the truth, or skewed it in order to prop up abc’s agenda. The only means to alter a federal conviction is through appellate review, via the Court of Military Appeals. However, the topic is definitely an issue with a bullseye.

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