Cantwell Calls for IG Probe Into Previously Withheld Reports of Sexual Assault During Coast Guard Oversight Hearing

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"It is heartbreaking, maddening, frustrating and intolerable where we are today, with this sexual abuse and assault within the Coast Guard. [We] cannot tolerate the fact that the Coast Guard did not notify us of this. I'm going to ask for an IG investigation so that we can get to the bottom of all the problems that have occurred here and post the knowledge and information."

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"I need to hear from you, what do you think are the necessary steps to really give everybody a full accounting of what's transpired? And your recommendations on how we're going to fix this? And what is the reasoning why Congress wasn't notified of this situation?"

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