Air Force leaders at the Pentagon lie to Congress

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7NEWS Investigates: Letter Points To Possible Cover-Up By Air Force Leaders

Sex Assaults, Culture Of Ostracizing Victims Noted In Psychiatrist's Memo

UPDATED: 12:05 p.m. MDT October 8, 2003

DENVER -- Did Air Force leaders at the Pentagon lie to Congress about their knowledge of sex assaults at the Air Force Academy? That is the question after 7NEWS Investigates obtained a letter written three years ago denying any problems with sex assaults at the academy.


This seems to be the clearest indication yet of an effort by Air Force leadership to cover-up the problem, 7NEWS reporter John Ferrugia said.

Three years ago the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee sent a memo, written by an Air Force psychiatrist, to the Office of Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. The memo was a detailed account of sex assaults of female cadets and how the academy leadership had fostered a culture and system that attacked and ostracized victims.

Sen. John Warner asked for an investigation. Unbelievable as it might seem, the Pentagon told him -- in writing -- that the Air Force conducted a thorough investigation and found there was not a problem.


For victims, it is difficult to understand how the memo could have been ignored at the highest levels of the Air Force.

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