The Washington Post: Members of Congress took the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Forest Service to the woodshed Thursday, following years of sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation complaints.
The bipartisan whipping followed tearful and disturbing testimony from a wild land firefighter about sexual abuse.
With a halting voice, Denise Rice, a fire prevention technician in California’s Eldorado National Forest, recalled a male supervisor who took a letter opener and “poked my breast, both breasts, with a smile on his face in an arrogant way, like he could get away with it.”
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