After mismanaging sexual assault and rape cases at the US Air Force Academy for years, then mismanaging the reaction to a sudden flurry of media coverage of same, the Air Force is bending over backwards to try and show that it’s taking the matter seriously — new cadet rules, new leadership at the AFA, and so forth.<\/p>\n
But the first actual legal action taken in the matter — the case being prosecuted against cadet Douglas Meester <\/a>— gives every indication of being much more to demonstrate a general air of toughness<\/a> than an attempt to see true justice done. Despite the advice of the hearing officer that the evidence did not make it likely a guilty verdict would be returned on the worst charges, recommending those charges be dropped and the other charges handled non-judicially, the current AFA interim commander has taken the unusual step of overriding the hearing officer and pushing the case forward anyway.<\/p>\n Rarely, when the pendulum swings in one direction, does it fail to swing too far back in the other — especially when there’s politics involved. 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