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    Update.

    Now that the cat fight is over (meow), we can see what is happening in the news:

    CBS News has learned the investigation has spread to all branches of the military. Business Insider first reported that the scandal is broader than it initially appeared to be in early reports.

    The website titled Anon-IB first gained notoriety for publishing nude photos of celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence. But it also contains a message board for military personnel where men from all branches of the military exchange comments and nude photos of female service members, sometimes identifying them by name and/or duty station.
    Read more at the link.
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    Marine Corps' Nude-Photo-Sharing Scandal Worse Than First Realized
    10 Mar 2017 | Hundreds of nude photos of female service members from every branch have been posted to a message board that dates back to May.
    The scandal that prompted an investigation into hundreds of Marines who are accused of sharing naked photographs of their colleagues in a private Facebook group is much larger than has been reported, Business Insider has learned. The practice of sharing such photos goes beyond the Marine Corps and one Facebook group. Hundreds of nude photos of female service members from every military branch have been posted to an image-sharing message board that dates back to at least May. A source informed Business Insider of the site's existence on Tuesday. The site, called AnonIB, has a dedicated board for military personnel that features dozens of threaded conversations among men, many of whom ask for "wins" -- naked photographs -- of specific female service members, often identifying the women by name or where they are stationed.


    The revelation comes on the heels of an explosive story published on Saturday by the journalist Thomas Brennan. He reported on a Facebook group called Marines United, which was home to approximately 30,000 members who were sharing nude photos of colleagues along with personal information and even encouragement of sexual assault. The report led the Marine Corps to open an investigation, spurred widespread outrage in the media and in Congress, and prompted sharp condemnation from the Corps' top leaders. According to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, investigators are considering felony charges that could carry a maximum penalty of seven years in prison.



    Marines practice marksmanship at Camp Geiger, N.C., during infantry training


    An official familiar with the matter told Business Insider that the Marine commandant, Gen. Robert Neller, would brief members of the House Armed Services Committee next week on the scandal. "We're examining some of our policies to see if we can make them punitive in nature," the official said, adding that the Corps was taking the issue very seriously.


    A Facebook-group exodus leads to a message board's popularity


    Brennan's story also led to an apparent exodus of members from the private Facebook group, though some appeared to have found the publicly viewable message board soon after -- with the express intent of finding the cache of nude images that Marines in the Facebook group were sharing. "Come on Marines share the wealth here before that site is nuked and all is lost," one anonymous user said in a post on Monday, two days after Brennan's story was published. Follow-up replies offered a link to a Dropbox folder named "Girls of MU" with thousands of photographs. Dropbox did not respond to a request for comment.


    Members on the board often posted photos -- seemingly stolen from female service members' Instagram accounts -- before asking others if they had nude pictures of a female service member. For example, after posting the first name and photograph of a female soldier in uniform on January 21, one board member asked for "Army chick went to [redacted], ig is [redacted]." Another user, apparently frustrated that no pictures had yet been found, posted a few days later: "BUMP. Let's see them t------."


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    Marines May Offer Reputation Software to Victims of Photo Scandal
    10 Mar 2017 | The Marine Corps may offer reputation management tools to victims of a group that shared nude photos of female service members.
    In addition to legal aid and support services, the Marine Corps may offer internet reputation management tools to victims of a Facebook group that shared nude and compromising photos of female service members and veterans without their consent, a defense official told Military.com Friday. In the days since independent site The War Horse broke the news that Marines United, a private group with 30,000 members, had engaged in this illicit and non-consensual sharing of photos and other personal information, both Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Ronald Green have issued statements sternly condemning the behavior. While a Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigation continues into the active-duty troops who participated in the photo-sharing ring, behind the scenes Marine Corps leaders have been scrambling to articulate a way forward for the service.


    In a "white letter" expected to be sent to commanders soon, the commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Neller will announce the formation of a task force, manned by officials from key agencies across Headquarters Marine Corps and led by Assistant Commandant Gen. Glenn Walters. The task force will be focused on steps to be taken in light of the incident, including immediate actions to care for victims of the photo-sharing ring. One of the options being considered, the official said, would provide women with so-called reputation management software, designed to protect a user's online presence from compromising information and bury damaging search engine results.



    A U.S. Marine Staff drills recruits, Aug. 29, 2011, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island.


    These tools, which use techniques ranging from flooding the internet with positive information related to an individual to advanced search engine optimization and engineering, are used by private individuals looking to manage their online identity as well as major corporations In 2014, retired Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly reportedly used a reputation management firm called OptimizeUp to obscure news about a negative Inspector General's report that concluded he bullied and harassed his senior staff.


    In testimony before a panel of the House Appropriations Committee Wednesday, Green said self-identified victims of photo-sharing would have access to all the resources offered by the Marine Corps to sexual assault survivors, including a military attorney under the victims legal counsel program. Asked whether he was concerned about the possibility the photos could be used to blackmail female service members, he said, "We absolutely are." Additional guidance, to be published in the near future, will list all the resources the Marine Corps is offering to self-identified victims of Marines United, as well as how to report illicit social media behavior to the military, the official said.


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    When people realize that the bulk of Marines are depraved brutes we train to kill people more effectively - and treat them as such, we'll all be better off.

    In the mean time, prosecute and convict what you can, and try keeping​ them away from women.

    Fear profits a man nothing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cthulhu View Post
    When people realize that the bulk of Marines are depraved brutes we train to kill people more effectively - and treat them as such, we'll all be better off.

    In the mean time, prosecute and convict what you can, and try keeping​ them away from women.

    Fear profits a man nothing.
    You don't think highly trained men should know the difference between sexual harassment/assault and their job? What happens to the women and children in a village or town abroad that the military invades/whatever? According to the logic that we train marines to only know how to kill and destroy, we should stop prosecuting them for war crimes against women. It is not like they can help it?

    Right?

    I don't know - maybe I think more of the people in the military because I think they are capable of exercising moral judgment even if they are trained to kill in specific situations.

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    Prosecuting Marines over nude photo scandal could be difficult

    An article in the Military Times discusses the difficulties of prosecuting these offenses.

    Many of the acts fall into a complicated legal area for military officials.


    “There will be some people who put photos up who clearly violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice,” said Don Christensen, former Air Force Chief Prosecutor and president of Protect Our Defenders. “But there are many others involved who might not be able to be prosecuted for any crimes.”


    The UCMJ is clear that an individual who “knowingly photographs, videotapes, films, or records by any means the private area of another person, without that other person’s consent” has committed a crime.


    But Christensen said individuals who steal private photos and share them without permission fall into a different legal area. Both military and federal law don’t specify that as a crime, a situation that Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., called “a gaping hole in regard to revenge porn.”


    Military officials can use general bad conduct language in the UCMJ to attempt to send those individuals to prison, but Christensen called it a less-than-certain legal strategy.


    Speier, who has pushed legislation for federal penalties against sharing nude photos without consent, will introduce a new measure early next week to amend the UCMJ to specifically outlaw the practice in the military as well.
    There are non-judicial / administrative measures which can be used.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    You don't think highly trained men should know the difference between sexual harassment/assault and their job? What happens to the women and children in a village or town abroad that the military invades/whatever? According to the logic that we train marines to only know how to kill and destroy, we should stop prosecuting them for war crimes against women. It is not like they can help it?

    Right?

    I don't know - maybe I think more of the people in the military because I think they are capable of exercising moral judgment even if they are trained to kill in specific situations.
    I did say prosecute didn't I?

    Look, I'm a Marine, this is an idiot thing. I look down on this kind of thing.

    But morally fit people aren't typically the recruiting pool for most military branches. I wish we had a larger pool for it - I really do.

    But until that problem is addressed, this problem will continue to grow.

    Sorry, but it is reality. I don't like it anymore than you do.

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    Last edited by Cthulhu; 03-12-2017 at 12:18 PM.
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    I can live with that. At least I am an honest one.
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