Air Force Academy Blamed for Sex Scandal

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Air Force Academy Blamed for Sex Scandal

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By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites)'s inspector general says a series of commanders at the Air Force Academy failed to recognize and deal with reports of sexual assaults against female cadets on campus, officials said Tuesday.





"We conclude that the overall root cause of the sexual assault problems at the Air Force Academy was the 'failure of successive chains of command over the past 10 years to acknowledge the severity of the problem,'" Inspector General Joseph E. Schmitz wrote in a Dec. 3 memo to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, quoting his own report.


"Consequently, they failed to initiate and monitor adequate corrective measures to change the culture until recently," Schmitz wrote.

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