Senior lawmakers demanded Monday that the Marines investigate a growing scandal involving the posting of nude photos of female Marines and other women on a private Facebook page.
Both the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Armes Services Committee, Republican Mac Thornberry of Texas, and the committee’s senior Democrat, Adam Smith of Washington state, called separately for a thorough investigation into the closed Facebook page Marines United, in which the photos and links to an off-group hard drive containing more photos were posted by current and former Marines, according to The Washington Post.
“Degrading behavior of this kind is entirely unacceptable,” Thornberry said, Reuters reported. “I expect the Marine Corps to investigate this matter fully with appropriate consequences for those who willingly participated.”
Smith also said the “behavior by Marines and former Marines is degrading, dangerous, and completely unacceptable,” and called for the victims to receive care in dealing with the aftermath of the situation, Reuters said.
The Facebook page has been removed from Facebook and Google, and the secure online drive containing some images also has also been removed, Reuters reported.
The site reportedly contained derogatory comments, including some about rape, along with the photos, which were taken and posted without the women’s knowledge or consent. Some of the women were identified by their full name and military rank, Reuters said.
The New York Post reported journalist and former Marine Thomas Brennan, who broke the story on the website The War Horse, has received numerous death threats for reporting the story, along with his family.
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