Coast Guard acted to ‘cover up’ sexual assault report, senators say
By Zamone Perez
Jun 12, 2024, 11:22 AM
U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan at a hearing on Capitol Hill on June 11, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Senators on Tuesday questioned the Coast Guard’s top official about the service’s cooperation with a congressional inquiry into a report that detailed decades of sexual assaults at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Lawmakers on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations blasted what they viewed as lackluster efforts by the service to provide documents related to a secret report known as “Operation Fouled Anchor,” which outlined years of sexual assault and inaction by at least 43 academy staff from the late 1980s to 2006.
Ranking Member Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., during the hearing flipped through a stack of documents provided by the service to show numerous pages containing significant redactions. The Coast Guard also did not provide documents that were attached to some emails, including an initial draft of the Operation Fouled Anchor report, Johnson said.
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