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Marines probing site with obscene images, comments on military women after complaints

The Marine Corps is investigating an offensive website - apparently tied to active duty and reserve Marines -- which contained misogynistic images and comments about women in the Corps, after a congresswoman complained about the site on the heels of concerns over sexual assaults in the military. The Facebook page, called "F'N Wook," has apparently been taken down. But Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., included several graphic images from the page in a letter Wednesday to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos. One showed a woman with a black eye, and the text: "She burned the bacon only once." Others suggested military women perform sexual acts in exchange for promotions. Speier wrote to Hagel and others that they would be "horrified by the culture of misogyny and sexual harassment depicted on the website," urging them to crack down as the military addresses an increase in sexual assaults. "The military cannot eradicate this problem without fundamentally ...

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    Rep . Jackie Speier on her experience

  2. Going Hungry

    Rep . Jackie Speier (D-CA) tells Alan about her experience living on a food-stamp budget.

  3. Surviving Jonestown

    Rep . Jackie Speier (D-CA) joins Alan to share her gripping tale about surviving the massacre at Jonestown thirty years ago

  4. Lawmaker: Consumers Win With Bank Bill

    Rep. Jeb Hensarling and Rep . Jackie Speier debate over the winners and losers of the bank bill.

  5. Lawmaker: Dumb Regulation the Problem

    Rep. Jeb Hensarling and Rep . Jackie Speier weigh in on financial regulation.

  6. How to Handle 'Too Big to Fail'

    FBN Exclusive: Rep . Jackie Speier on Ben Bernanke's semi-annual report to the House Financial Services Committee.

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