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I'm guessing that there may be a bit of statistical payback here for the way the survey results in the Pentagon report were originally extrapolated, but who knows?

It's called the same thing in the government world.

In a perfect world, the way you dress and comport yourself should have no effect on how people perceive you.  This is not a perfect world.

Attempt to fire a few civil servants for "overreaching" and they will present you with the actual fingers.

I would be amazed if the screening criteria were developed by civil servants.  They were developed by political appointees, who then instructed subordinate civil servants on how to apply them.

I fear that said premise buys into the White House spin a bit more than I'd care to spend.

Colin, that's unlikely since there was a good possibility that the boss they wanted to impress would soon be replaced by a PO'd Republican.  For federal civil servants, security  trumps ideology.

In my experience, the federal bureaucracy is one of the more apolitical groups in society.  Its members have to be to survive the wholesale shifts in political leadership that can occur every four years.  In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if at least some of the impetus for the Inspector General for Tax Administration's investigation came anonymously from civil servants unhappy about what they considered a dangerous politicization of their jobs.

I agree with Jon on this.  If federal bureaucrats (and I was one for my whole career) are governed by a single imperative, it's that the current administration will soon be replaced by the next one, which will be hostile to the first one.  They follow orders to the best of their ability but they do not freelance.  The idea that these scandals originated with civil servants is silly.  The scandals originated with the political leadership.

After this Pentagon "report" and its aftermath, I suspect that any commander who subsequently dismisses even the most frivolous sexual assault charge will have to be either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid.

You could apply this equally to a man falsely accused.

Sorry.  Such back alley confrontations are now known as homophobic assaults.

My concern is that this will devolve into a program like the one described by Greg Lukianoff (which the government is attempting to impose on universities), where the definition of "sexual assault" broadens and the due process rights of the accused narrow. 

Peter Robinson lives in socialist California and he complains about receiving multiple Restoration Hardware catalogs?  You just can't satisfy some people. 

Helping with the setup.  It's what a Roady does.