Female Marine: Military Sex Assault Issue 'Exaggerated'

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'Marine Corps Officer Captain Lindsay Rodman is a lawyer for the Pentagon and questions their "2012 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Media" survey saying it is replete with "bad math," according to a Navy Times story.

Capt. Rodman, a Harvard-educated lawyer, penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in 2013 questioning the Pentagon's survey. In her piece, Capt. Rodman said she received an email request to take the online survey, as did most of the other females in her office, but curiously, none of the males did. She said the exact number of male and female respondents to the survey can't be known, but what is known is that only one out of five responded at all.

Even though the Pentagon's official report has the term "sexual assault" in its title, Capt. Rodman said the survey used the wording "unwanted sexual contact" -- which could include touching or attempted touching. She admits that either is wrong, but as a lawyer, she says those things would not fall under the Uniform Code of Military Justice's definition of sexual assault.'