Air Force general nominated to be nation's No. 2 military officer strongly denies sexual misconduct allegations, telling Senate panel he was falsely accused. A woman told AP he subjected her to series of unwanted sexual advances while she was a top aide.
Gen. John Hyten appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, for his confirmation hearing to be Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
His denial comes after several months delay in the nomination process as senators investigated the charges made by Hyten’s former aide, Army Col. Kathryn Spletstoser. The opening hour of the hearing was dominated by the issue, and included strong statements of support for Hyten from former Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, and Sen. Martha McSally, R-Az., a former fighter pilot who has publicly described her own sexual assault.“This wasn’t just a jump ball. Not a he said, she said,” McSally said. “Sexual assault happens in the military. It just didn’t happen in this case.
She said she didn’t report the incidents at the time to avoid embarrassment, and out of fear of retaliation. She was also thinking about retiring, and believed Hyten was as well, so she concluded that he would not pose a risk to any other service members.after Hyten’s nomination, because she couldn’t live with the idea that he might assault someone else if he was confirmed for the job.
Air Force officials have said that investigators went through 10,000 pages of documents, conducted interviews with as many as 50 people and pursued every lead but did not uncover evidence to support Spletstoser’s allegations. But they also said they found no evidence that she was lying.
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