December 11, 2017


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NEW YORK BOMBING – TWO ARTICLES – INSPIRED BY ISIS, HE SAYS.

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CBS/AP December 11, 2017, 9:23 AM
NYC terror attack suspect claims he did it for ISIS -- live updates

NEW YORK -- A man detonated an improvised explosive device in an underground passageway at a major commuter hub in New York City Monday morning, officials said. New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill identified the suspect as Akayed Ullah, 27, who sustained injuries from the blast and was in police custody. Five other people near the blast suffered minor injuries.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said the incident was an attempted terror attack.

"Thank God the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate goals," de Blasio said.

The suspect has been interviewed by investigators, and CBS News has learned that he claimed he carried out the attack for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and was inspired by the group.

CBS News has also learned that authorities are investigating whether he may have been in contact with known extremist individuals. Investigators are trying to determine if anyone may have assisted him in the plot.

The blast took place in a passageway underneath 42nd Street in Manhattan that connects the subway stations at Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal, which is packed with commuters during the morning rush.

O'Neill said the suspect was heading toward the Times Square subway station when the device detonated at approximately 7:20 a.m.

A photo confirmed by CBS News showed a bearded man crumpled on the ground with his shirt apparently blown off and black soot covering his bare midriff. A police officer is holding the man's hands behind his back.

This photo confirmed by CBS News shows a suspect after his explosive device detonated in an underground passageway near the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City Dec. 11, 2017.

Another law enforcement source tells CBS News' Jeff Pegues that four Port Authority Police officers apprehended the suspect. When they encountered him, there was smoke around him and debris all over the floor. CBS News has learned that Ullah sustained a shrapnel wound. He was taken to a Manhattan hospital.

The source also says as police approached the suspect appeared to be reaching for a cellphone and he had wires protruding from his jacket and his pants.

The four officers identified as making the arrest range in age from 26 to 45 years old. Three of them served in the military, with one of them being a bomb technician, Pegues reports.

O'Neill initially said three other people in the immediate area of the blast were also injured. Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said they suffered minor injuries consistent with being in the area of an explosion such as ringing in the ears and headaches. They transported themselves to area hospitals.

Later in the day, Mount Sinai Health System said it had received and treated 5 patients with minor injuries, according to a statement. All were in stable condition. Mount Sinai says it is working with law enforcement officials.

CBS News has learned that the suspect was from Bangladesh. Ullah legally entered the U.S. in February 2011 on a family immigrant visa with his parents and eventually became a legal permanent resident. He has no criminal record.

A law enforcement source told CBS News that indications are Ullah had traveled overseas, including an apparent trip to Bangladesh in Sept. 2017, returning to the U.S. in Oct. 2017. He also had previous travel to the United Arab Emirates.

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New York Police Department officers secure the Port Authority Bus Terminal after reports of an explosion in Manhattan, New York, on Mon., Dec. 11, 2017. REUTERS

Authorities said the bomb was a low-tech explosive device. They were investigating how it was made, and combing through surveillance footage that captured the blast on video.

CBS News has learned from a law enforcement official that Ullah made the bomb himself, with the intention to harm others. He apparently built the device with elements he acquired at his workplace. Officials would not confirm details about Ullah's bomb-making procedures or what was contained inside of the device.

It's unclear whether he assembled explosive device at his workplace or at his Brooklyn apartment or elsewhere.

Charges against Ullah are expected to be filed in federal court in New York, possibly as early as Tuesday.

A video posted on social media and confirmed by CBS News showed the moment of the explosion on security footage. In it, a man walks through the crowded pedestrian tunnel and the bomb suddenly going off in a plume of white smoke. Through the smoke, the suspect is then seen sprawled on the ground as bystanders flee.


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Deputy Police Commissioner John Miller said that the device was based on a pipe bomb and was affixed to the suspect's body with a combination of Velcro and zip ties.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that President Trump had been briefed on the incident.


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At Monday's White House briefing, Sanders praised the "brave first responders and others who rushed to the scene," calling them "heroes."

She also turned to the issue of immigration. "We must ensure that individuals entering our country are not coming to do harm to our people and we must move to a merit based system of immigration," Sanders said. She said the U.S. must eliminate ISIS and the "evil ideology" behind it.

In a statement released by the White House, President Trump said, "Today's attempted mass murder attack in New York City -- the second terror attack in New York in the last two months -- once again highlights the urgent need for Congress to enact legislative reforms to protect the American people."

The president criticized the "lax immigration system" and said that those convicted of engaging in terrorism "deserve the strongest penalty allowed by law, including the death penalty in appropriate cases."

Elrana Peralta, a customer service worker for Greyhound, said she works in the Port Authority terminal complex near where the blast happened, but didn't hear the explosion.

"All we could hear was the chaos," she said. "We could hear people yelling, 'Get out! Get out! Get out!'"

John Miles, 28, from Vermont, was waiting for a bus to Massachusetts. He also didn't hear the blast, but saw police react.

"I didn't know what was going on. Officers were running around. I was freaking out," he said. There was an announcement that people should take their bags and leave. "They didn't incite panic. It was fairly orderly."

Video from above the "Crossroads of the World" showed lines of police and emergency vehicles, their lights flashing, lining the streets and no other vehicle traffic moving.

Everything around the Port Authority area was shut down - a surreal scene of still at what would ordinarily be a bustling rush hour.

New Jersey Transit buses headed to the Port Authority were diverted to other locations and resumed normal service later in the morning.

Subways were rerouted around the area, but were expected to be back to normal by the evening rush, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota said.

For the latest service changes and updates, visit the MTA website here.

Across town at U.N. headquarters, the secretary-general's office has been monitoring the situation and speaking with the police, CBS News' Pamela Falk reports.


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THE BOMBER'S PERSONAL INFORMATION

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By CRIMESIDER STAFF CBS/AP December 11, 2017, 5:24 PM
Port Authority explosion: What we know about suspect Akayed Ullah

NEW YORK -- New York City police have identified the suspect in an explosion in a crowded subway corridor near the Port Authority bus terminal Monday morning as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah. Police say Ullah was carrying an "improvised low-tech explosive device" when it went off as he was in an underground pedestrian passageway at 42nd street between 7th and 8th Avenues, beneath the major commuter hub.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio called it an "attempted terror attack."

Law enforcement sources tell CBS News that Ullah said the attack was for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS. He is believed to have made the bomb himself with the intent of harming others.

Several people nearby suffered minor injuries and the suspect was seriously injured. No other threats were apparent, the mayor said.

"Thank God the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate goals," de Blasio said.

Ullah is in police custody. Officials say he sustained burns to his abdomen and hands after the crude pipe bomb exploded. A photo confirmed by CBS News showed a bearded man crumpled on the ground with his shirt apparently blown off and black soot covering his bare midriff. A police officer is holding the man's hands behind his back.

Surveillance cameras captured the man walking casually through the crowded passageway when the bomb suddenly went off at 7:20 a.m. amid a plume of white smoke, which cleared to show the man sprawled on the ground and commuters fleeing in terror.

A law enforcement source tells CBS News' Jeff Pegues four Port Authority Police officers apprehended the suspect. When they encountered him, Ullah had a shrapnel wound and there was smoke around him and debris all over the floor, Pegues reports.

The source said as police approached, Ullah appeared to be reaching for a cellphone, and he had wires protruding from his jacket and his pants.

New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said the suspect "made statements" when he was taken into custody but wouldn't say whether he made reference to ISIS. Ullah has since been interviewed by investigators, CBS News' senior investigative producer Pat Milton reports.

The device was based on a pipe bomb and affixed to the suspect's body with a combination of velcro and zip ties, said John Miller, the deputy commissioner of intelligence and counter-terrorism for the NYPD. A federal law enforcement official told Pegues the device malfunctioned. The source says "it did not fully detonate which possibly caused the injury."

O'Neill said it wasn't clear whether the suspect detonated the device by accident or whether the location was intentional. Police and the Joint Terrorism Task Force were investigating how the device was made and where he got the bomb-making instructions, reports CBS New York.

Ullah apparently built the bomb with materials he acquired at his workplace, though it's not clear where he worked or where he assembled the device, a law enforcement official told Milton.

The suspect also had another device on him, sources tell CBS News.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the suspect may have crafted the device using online instructions. Cuomo told cable news channel NY1 that officials "have reason to believe that this person went to the internet and found out how to make a homemade bomb."

This photo confirmed by CBS News shows a suspect after his explosive device detonated in an underground passageway near the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City on Mon., Dec. 11, 2017.

Authorities are investigating the incident as a possible "lone wolf" attack based on the rudimentary construction of the device, reports CBS New York. Investigators are trying to determine whether Ullah may have been in contact with any known extremist individuals or if anyone helped him in the plot, Milton reports.

The suspect is from Bangladesh, CBS News has learned. Ullah entered the U.S. with his parents and three to four siblings in February 2011 on an immigrant visa, sources tell CBS News. He obtained a green card and became a permanent U.S. resident.

"DHS can confirm that the suspect was admitted to the United States after presenting a passport displaying an F43 family immigrant visa in 2011," said Department of Homeland Security acting Press Secretary Tyler Houlton in an email to CBS News. "The suspect is a lawful permanent resident from Bangladesh who benefited from extended family chain migration."

48 Hours' Murray Weiss reports Ullah has an address in Brooklyn. Police spoke with Ullah's family in the borough's Flatlands section, CBS New York's Marcia Kramer reported. Ullah lived with his father, mother and brother in a residential area with a large Bangladeshi community, neighbors told the Associated Press. The home was just off a shopping strip - a red two-story brick building.

Investigators were searching his apartment, interviewing witnesses and relatives and looking for surveillance footage that may show his movements in the moments before the attack.

Alan Butrico owns the house next door and a locksmith business two doors down.

"It's very weird," he said. "You never know who your neighbors are."

The Bangladesh Embassy in Washington condemned the attack. The deputy chief of mission, Mahbub Hassan Saleh, said the embassy had not received any information from authorities about the suspect.

Just over a year after arriving in the U.S., in March 2012, Ullah secured a livery license, the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission tells CBS News' Graham Kates. That license, which was not for a New York City cab, but instead for a so-called "for-hire" vehicle, lapsed in March 2015.

Ullah apparently traveled overseas to Bangladesh in September and returned in October, a law enforcement source tells Milton. He also previously traveled to the United Arab Emirates, Milton reports.

Ullah had no criminal history prior to Monday's attack, Weiss reports. Charges were expected to be filed against him in federal court in New York as early as Tuesday, Milton reports.

Anyone with information about Ullah is asked to call 1-888-NYC-SAFE.

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VIDEO – INTERVIEW WITH GOV. JERRY BROWN

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"The planet is warming, and all hell is breaking loose"
DECEMBER 10, 2017, 3:02 PM| As California endures its most destructive fire season, Governor Jerry Brown tells 60 Minutes that President Trump's skepticism about climate change is "a reckless disregard for the truth." DECEMBER 11, 2017, 8:01 AM



ALABAMA ELECTION, BOTH SIDES – VIDEO ONLY

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Alabama Senate election
DECEMBER 11, 2017, 7:05 AM| Alabama's Senate candidates are making final campaign pushes before Tuesday's special election. Republican Roy Moore gave a rare sit-down interview, and Democrat Doug Jones campaigned with New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. President Trump is endorsing Moore, who has repeatedly denied allegations of sexual misconduct. Manuel Bojorquez reports.



TWO ARTICLES -- PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EFFORTS AT GOVERNMENT BY FIAT JUST DON’T ALWAYS WORK. OF COURSE, HIS PEOPLE WILL PROBABLY APPEAL THIS DECISION. MORE LATER, AS IT EMERGES.

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Pentagon to begin accepting transgender troops Jan 1. after court order
Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY Published 2:45 p.m. ET Dec. 11, 2017 | Updated 3:26 p.m. ET Dec. 11, 2017

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will begin accepting transgender troops Jan. 1, 2018, complying with a federal court order that overrules President Trump’s pledge to ban them from the military.

The White House confirmed Monday that the Pentagon would put in place policies that permit the services to accept new recruits. Those plans had been formulated under the Obama administration, which had scheduled them to take effect July 1. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the Pentagon would comply with federal court orders to accept new transgender troops.

“As of right now, they’re simply complying with a court order and preparing to implement a previous policy to remain in compliance," Sanders said. "The Department of Justice is currently reviewing the legal options to ensure that the president’s directive can be implemented.”

The Defense Department delayed the implementation of the Obama-era plan, and Trump tweeted in late July that he wanted to ban transgender troops from serving. Those actions have triggered court challenges by advocates for transgender troop, and courts have generally sided with them.

In August, Trump ordered that the Pentagon reverse the Obama administration’s policy for accepting new transgender troops as well as treating those already in uniform. The order stated that the Pentagon had failed to prove that terminating the previous ban on transgender troops, on the basis of health concerns, “would not hinder military effectiveness, lethality, disrupt unit cohesion or tax military resources.”

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has made readiness and lethality guiding principles of his tenure at the Pentagon.

In September, Mattis announced that the Pentagon would establish a new policy on transgender by Feb. 21, 2018. An expert panel and high-ranking Pentagon officials are crafting recommendations for Mattis based on “appropriate evidence and information.”

Until that deadline, Mattis issued interim guidance that included a ban on accepting new transgender enlisted recruits and officers. That ban now has been lifted, and the new policy put in place Jan 1. The services had been developing their policy for accepting new transgender troops for several months under the Obama administration.

During the Obama administration, the Pentagon commissioned a study by the non-partisan RAND Corp. to examine issues regarding transgender service in the military. RAND estimated that there are a few to several thousand transgender troops on the active duty force of about 1.3 million. Treatment costs and effects on military readiness were deemed negligible.

The annual price tag for the troops’ treatment, ranging from counseling, hormone treatment and surgery, was estimated at between $2.4 million and $8.4 million, according to RAND.

This spring, the lack of a policy for accepting transgender troops affected two graduates, one each at the Air Force and Army academies. They were unable to join their fellow graduates as new officers.

The Obama-era policy called for transgender recruits and new officer candidates to be certified by a doctor as stable in their mew gender for 18 months before they can enter the military.

More: Court blocks Trump's ban on transgender troops


PUBLIC SAFETY -- JUDGE RULES TRANSGENDER PEOPLE CAN ENLIST IN MILITARY, DENYING TRUMP BID TO DELAY DEADLINE ON THE GROUNDS OF “IRREPARABLE HARM.”

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Protesters advocate transgender rights at the White House in July. (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
By Spencer S. Hsu and Ann E. Marimow December 11 at 2:25 PM

A federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration’s request to delay an order requiring the military to begin accepting transgender recruits starting Jan. 1, saying the argument for more time seemed based on “vague claims.”

“The Court is not persuaded that Defendants will be irreparably injured by” meeting the New Year’s Day deadline, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote.

The ruling from Kollar-Kotelly of the District of Columbia follows her earlier opinion blocking the president’s ban on military recruitment of transgender men and women that possibly would have forced the dismissal of current service members starting in March.

“With only a brief hiatus, Defendants have had the opportunity to prepare for the accession of transgender individuals into the military for nearly one and a half years,” when the policy was initially issued in June 2016, she wrote. “Especially in light of the record evidence showing, with specifics, that considerable work has already been done, the Court is not convinced by the vague claims in [the government’s] declaration that a stay is needed.”

A second federal judge in Baltimore also issued a preliminary injunction in November that goes further, preventing the administration from denying funding for sex-reassignment surgeries once the order were to take effect.

[Federal judge says Trump administration can’t stop funding sex-reassignment surgery for service members]

Justice Department spokeswoman Lauren Ehrsam said in a statment, “We disagree with the Courts ruling and are currently evaluating the next steps. Plaintiffs’ lawsuit challenging military service requirements is premature for many reasons, including that the Defense Department is actively reviewing such service requirements, as the President ordered, and because none of the Plaintiffs have established that they will be impacted by current policies on military service.”

In July, President Trump surprised military leaders and members of Congress when he announced the proposal in a series of tweets. Trump’s order reversed an Obama-era policy allowing transgender people to serve openly and receive funding for sex-reassignment surgery.

[Trumps wants to ban transgender military troops. His top general feels differently.]

In October, Kollar-Kotelly found challengers likely to prevail in asserting that the president’s order violates equal-protection guarantees in the Constitution. The administration has appealed the ruling and in the meantime asked the judge to temporarily postpone the recruitment requirement.

On Monday, Kollar-Kotelly noted that the government waited three weeks to appeal her Oct. 30 order barring the military from implementing a transgender ban, did not file its motion to stay the Jan. 1 deadline until Wednesday and has not sought any sort of expedited review of her initial decision.

“The Court notes that Defendants’ portrayal of their situation as an emergency is belied by their litigation tactics,” the judge wrote, adding, “If complying with the military’s previously established January 1, 2018 deadline to begin accession was as unmanageable as Defendants now suggest, one would have expected Defendants to act with more alacrity.”

[Mattis asked these two men to help determine the future of transgender military service]

After the Jan. 1 start was cleared Monday, former Navy secretary Raymond Edwin Mabus Jr. said in a statement that allowing transgender candidates to enlist is not a complicated process and that nearly all the necessary preparation had been completed by the time he left office more than a year ago. “It is inconsistent with my understanding of the status of those efforts and the working of military personnel to conclude that the military would not be prepared almost a year later — and six months after the date on which the policy was originally scheduled to take effect,” Mabus wrote.

Forcing the military to accept transgender applicants and implement such a significant change in policy may “negatively impact military readiness,” government lawyers had said in asking for the delay.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs said in court filings that the military had already been preparing to accept transgender recruits. Before the change in administration, the Defense Department was gearing up to accept transgender applicants starting in July 2017 and had started training and other preparations.

“The government cannot credibly claim that it will be irreparably harmed by implementing a policy that it was on track to implement almost six months ago,” according to the filing from the plaintiffs.

“This administration needs to stop creating fake problems and get on with it,” said GLAD transgender rights project director Jennifer Levi after Kollar-Kotelly’s decision Monday.


INTERVIEWS WITH TWO VICTIMS ON THE EVENTS AND RESPONSE BY THE AUTHORITIES THERE

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CBS NEWS December 11, 2017, 7:37 AM
Current and former cadets speak out on sexual assault at Air Force Academy

In a six-month investigation you'll see only on "CBS This Morning," we traveled to the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs to investigate sexual assault in the service academies. The Air Force Academy's stated mission is to "educate, train, and inspire men and women to become officers of character motivated to lead the United States Air Force in service to our nation." But more than a dozen current and former cadets tell CBS News they reported their sexual assaults to the Air Force Academy only to experience retaliation by their peers and their commanders.

Emily Hazen, who said she dreamed of going to the Air Force Academy since she was seven years old, was supposed to graduate in 2015 as a commissioned officer from the elite academy. Both she and Melissa Hildremyr, who also called the academy her "dream school," chose to abandon their military careers after they were sexually assaulted by fellow cadets.

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Emily Hazen and Melissa Hildremyr CBS NEWS
"I was sexually assaulted my freshmen year... and the sexual harassment I endured eventually made me leave," Hazen said.

"Describe that harassment," O'Donnell said.

"My perpetrator would follow me on runs. He would tell me he urinated on my car. He would write crude things on my car, like, in the fog. He would send me horrible text messages," Hazen said. "He would stalk me, he would ask me where I was going in my little brown dress."

"Was he ever reprimanded in any way?" O'Donnell asked.

"He was talked to by his commander about a very crude text message I received and told that that was unbecoming of an officer," Hazen said.

"What ever happened to that cadet?" O'Donnell asked.

"He graduated," Hazen said.

"And what happened to you?"

"I left," Hazen responded.

Hildremyr said she was sexually assaulted by two fellow cadets, and she intended to keep it a secret. She admits they were all drinking underage. She said they began to harass her, and she filed a report about the assault. But she told us agents based at the academy with the Air Force office of special investigations had already made up their minds.

"They would attack me. They would say things like, 'These guys have every reason to tell the truth and you have every reason to lie.' And they would just – they made me feel like it was my fault this had happened to me. Like, yes, I was drinking under age and I shouldn't have been doing that," Hildremyr said.

"But so were they," O'Donnell said.

"They were. But it was my fault that I got sexually assaulted," Hildremyr said.

Teresa Beasley was the Air Force Academy's top official on sexual assault prevention and response for 10 years.

"How are cadets treated when they go public with the sexual assault?" O'Donnell asked her.

"It is typically negative," Beasley said. "There are usually negative things said on anonymous social media... They're ostracized frequently by their squad mates… and usually word spreads pretty fast. And word gets out who is the victim. … They'll have their name plates taken off the room and thrown on the ground. People won't sit with them at lunch."

"How are they treated by their commanders?" O'Donnell asked.

"A lot of it is depending on the commander. Some commanders unfortunately will begin retaliating on the cadet as well," Beasley said.

That's why two current cadets are risking their careers by speaking to us about their sexual assaults. They requested that we protect their identities.

"He held me down while he-- he-- while he assaulted me," Cadet 1 told CBS News.

"I am at some house. I don't know where I am. And he is raping me. And then he-- I can't-- I can't fight him off. I can't do anything," Cadet 2 said. "And I was going to take it to my grave."

"There's no understanding in the commanders about sexual assault, the trauma, the effects. They don't know. They don't realize that when I'm depressed in my bed, it's not 'cause, 'Oh, I don't wanna go to class today,'" Cadet 1 said.

"I was terrified of reporting. Because I've heard of things that happen to people. And it did happen to me. So it's not horror stories," Cadet 2 said. "It's slut shaming. It's victim blaming. It's rumors. It's your career on the line. I've never wanted this. All I've ever wanted to do in my life was serve my country and be one of the best officers that I could be."

"It's the most unfortunate thing. You go there, 'cause you want to protect your country. And they-- they don't protect you," Cadet 1 said.

"Do you regret reporting the assault?" O'Donnell asked.

"I regret it every day. I regret it every day, because of everything that came after," Cadet 1 said, crying. "I just wish that I had never came forward. Because I never asked to be assaulted."

"What would the Air Force lose, if they lost you?" O'Donnell asked.

"Someone who's passionate to be in the-- to be in the uniform, someone who wants to serve her country, someone who wants to lead America's young men and women and protect our nation. That's all I wanted to do," Cadet 1 said.

The Air Force Academy tells us that in the last five years, 11 cadet survivors of sexual assault left the school. Eight disenrolled "voluntarily." As for the other three, one was over an honor violation, another for poor academics, and a third due to fitness deficiency.

On Tuesday, we will hear more from Teresa Beasley, who led the academy's sexual assault prevention and resources office. She raises concerns about the way sexual assault cases at the academy were handled and counted. The Air Force Academy also plans to respond to our reporting. We will hear from its new superintendent, Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, tomorrow on "CBS This Morning."

Though she felt no choice but to leave the Air Force Academy, Emily Hazen has since worked with Protect our Defenders, an organization led by the former chief prosecutor of the Air Force, which provides pro bono legal counsel and other services to sexual assault survivors in the military. She's now in law school so she can do the same.

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