Gillibrand on a personal crusade to change military culture

WSHU | By Matt Laslo

Published February 24, 2014 at 10:35 AM EST

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has been at the forefront of an effort to reform a culture in the military that has allowed sexual assaults to go unpunished. Matt Laslo reports from Washington on the Democratic senator’s bipartisan effort to change the military justice system.

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