Lawmakers to begin investigation into a US Marine “Closed Community” FB page that was circulating nude photos of female Marine personnel that including their name, rank, and station – PB/TK
Lawmakers call on U.S. Marines to investigate nude photo network – by Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas; Additional reporting Jonathan Landay in Washington March 6, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior U.S. lawmakers on Sunday condemned the suspected distribution of nude photographs of female Marines to military personnel and veterans via a social media network that promotes sexual violence, and called on the Marine Corps to fully investigate.
The Marine Corps Times, an independent newspaper focusing on issues involving the service, published an internal Marine Corps communications document with talking points about the issue, describing the social media network as a closed Facebook group with about 30,000 members. The network solicited nude photos of female service members, some of whom had their name, rank and duty station listed, the newspaper reported.
A Marine Corps spokesman told the newspaper that military officials are uncertain how many military personnel could be involved.
The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, Republican Mac Thornberry of Texas, and the panel’s senior Democrat, Adam Smith of Washington state, separately called for a complete investigation.
“Degrading behavior of this kind is entirely unacceptable,” Thornberry said in a statement. “I expect the Marine Corps to investigate this matter fully with appropriate consequences for those who willingly participated.”
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