it should be an independent military justice system. and let me say one other thing. senator leahy who i respect has a bill to say let s put it in the civilian side. that s a bridge too far. senator gillibrand s proposal in this bill is the moderate step. to make sure that women move forward. the problem here is there s been 26,000 sexual assaults in the military estimated. only 15% of the women are disclosing what s going on. the number one reason as senator gillibrand mentioned in the hearing today was because they re afraid of the chain of command. by keeping it separate from the chain of command and within the judge advocate system let them decide what cases to bring on these felony cases. chris, if its a comment in formation, something that was not right or a sergeant says, hey, good looking. that s not a trial. that should be a reprimand what s called nonjudicial
i care less about the source of the information than the information itself. snowden can say what he wants. it s important to look at the stuff and the exchange you just showed is really important not because of what keith alexander said, but the way this is supposed to work. if we re going to have secret government, you into ed to have members of congress who are representatives right and left, and every place else being able to know what s going on and be able to affirm to us it s legitimate. if he says dozens, i want leahy to say show me the dozens so he can come out tomorrow or maybe on friday and say listen, i have checked on this. i can tell you this. i ll bring the republicans in. that s that we call checks and balances. that s what you need. that s absolutely right. and one problem is over the years, we haven t had that sort of oversight from congress. we haven t had people in the white house who have welcomed that sort of oversight. committees on intelligence, do y
put out. these are in realtime. the administration is still, their spokesperson paid liar, he s still making up things about what happens and calling this local rogue. this was a problem coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters and we re getting to proving it. one conundrum for him, the committee s ranking democrat elijah cummings released additional excerpts directly contradicting his claims. cummings says he ll release the full transcripts by friday if issa doesn t do it. issa now doesn t want the full letter released. in a letter to cummings, he said he pushed you re pushed to release entire transcripts while the investigation remains active was reckless and threatened to undermine the integrity of the committee s investigation. if a full transcript were released it would serve as a road map of the investigation. the transcript could be used by
objective. not every single commander necessarily wants women in the force. not every single commander believes what a sexual assault is. not every one can distinguish between a slap on the ass and a rape because they merge all of these crimes together. today the democratic chairman of the committee carl levin said taking it out of the chain of command was not necessarily the best remedy. carl levin of michigan. i do not support removing the authority of commanders to prosecute sexual assault cases and putting that decision in the hands of military lawyers outside of the chain of command. as the personnel subcommittee provision would do. i believe that doing so would weaken our response to sexual assault and actually make it less likely that sexual assaults would be prosecuted. with that same markup hearing, senator gillibrand pushed back. let s listen to her. the victims tell us they do not report because of chain of command. so i disagree with the statements today and previou
and every place else being able to know what s going on and be able to affirm to us it s legitimate. if he says dozens, i want leahy to say show me the dozens so he can come out tomorrow or maybe on friday and say listen, i have checked on this. i can tell you this. i ll bring the republicans in. that s that we call checks and balances. that s what you need. that s absolutely right. and one problem is over the years, we haven t had that sort of oversight from congress. we haven t had people in the white house who have welcomed that sort of oversight. committees on intelligence, do you like dianne feinstein? is she good enough? she did a good report on torture 6,000 pages that the cia is still sitting on. i d like to see that report. thank you joe klein. and david corn. up next, new york mayor mike bloomberg calls out democrats who voted no on gun legislation telling donors to put their donations elsewhere. this is hardball, the place for politics.