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imdur mg CHANG: Well, the proposal from Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York took the more aggressive approach. She's collected stories from many victims who either tried reporting an attack to a commander who did nothing or refrained from reporting because she didn't trust the commander and feared retaliation. So Gillibrand proposed that military prosecutors rather than commanders should be the ones to decide when to prosecute a sexual assault or any other serious offense with the exception of crimes that are uniquely military in nature, like disobeying orders or going AWOL, because Gillibrand thinks commanders just don't have the expertise to weigh legal evidence the way trained prosecutors can.