President Obama responded forcefully to a new report from the Pentagon that estimated 26,000 people in the United States military were sexually assaulted last year. This report was released just days after Lt. Col.Jeff Krusinski, chief of sexual assault prevention for the Air Force, was charged with sexual battery. MSNBC’s Alex Wagner discusses this issue with […]
Rachel Maddow talked with Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, member of the Armed Services Committee and Iraq War Veteran, about the problems in the United States with delivering promised benefits to war veterans. Noting she was “pissed” over the way veterans have been treated in this country upon returning home, an incensed Rachel Maddow talked about the […]
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) the new Chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, pressed a panel of judge advocate generals for answers regarding sexual assault during her first hearing as Committee Chair for the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel. The officers, judge advocate generals from the Army, Navy and Marines were told […]
Former Army tank gunner Jeff Barillaro has an interesting approach to dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Under the stage name Soldier Hard, Barillaro has decided to declare war on PTSD though his studio-recorded hip-hop songs. (You can listen to all his work on his official Soldier Hard website.) As reported by MSNBC, he […]
This video is based on a series of interviews with the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden. To protect his identity, the video is not using his real voice. Phil Bronstein, executive chairman of the board of the Center for Investigative Reporting, conducted the interviews and his story appears in the March issue of Esquire, or you can […]