1.0 link 177563 <![CDATA[The Pentagon's Annual Report on Sexual Assualt in the Military, or, How to Lie with Statistics]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/helen-benedict/the-pentagons-annual-repo_b_177563.html The Pentagon celebrated the sixth anniversary of the Iraq War this week by releasing its annual report on military sexual assault.

The numbers are disturbing. Reports of sexual assault have risen 8 percent in military as a whole. In the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, they have shot up by 26 percent.

Yet to the Department of Defense this is good news.

As Kaye Whitley, director of the Defense Department's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO), said at a press briefing at...

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