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"What color panties you [sic] have on?" was the question that cost San Francisco District Attorney’s Office victim advocate Jovan Thomas his job on Friday. The overly friendly email query was addressed to Thomas' boss, city District Attorney Brooke Jenkins — along with their entire office. Not exactly the kind of thing you want to cc to a building full of prosecutors, although Thomas claimed in a follow-up email — this is the kind of office where you've seriously got to stay on top of these email threads — that the message was a prank and meant for a fraternity...

Imagine these scenarios: A junior female soldier has an affair with an infantry officer in Iraq. When the relationship cools she revengefully accuses him of sexual assault. Her e-mailed complaint activates the Office of the Victim Advocate in the Pentagon. OVA officials pressure the accused officer’s commander to remove him from his unit on the eve of battle. At the Naval Academy, a female midshipman willingly parties with a classmate. Both have broken rules against alcohol and sex in Bancroft Hall, but to escape punishment she accuses him of sexual assault. The male midshipman is threatened with criminal prosecution and...