They abused me. Sharyl in nine states, convicted felons can only get back the right to vote if theyre individually approved by the governor or a court. When democrat Terry Mcauliffe became virginias governor in 2014, he restored the right to vote for 18,000 felons. What were your concerns . Jim plowman a database was just dumped into the voter system and it wasnt vetted, it wasnt looked at, it wasnt scrubbed. . Scott hello, im scott thuman in for sharyl attkisson. Welcome to full measure. This week, the battle began to retake the iraqi city of mosul u. S. Special Operations Forces are acting as spotters for targeted airstrikes. Special ops are more frequently the tip of the spear in u. S. Military operations, and they are now in greater demand than ever before. What does it take to be the best of the best . We travelled to an imaginary war zone, to observe a real exercise, in the making of a green beret. Six times a year, the serene central piedmont of North Carolina becomes a battleground. Stretching across 19 counties and 10,000 square miles, the men who survive this final exercise will join the elite ranks of the armys green berets. The drill is called robin sage. And we were granted rare access to observe the 118 soldiers on the brink of becoming special forces. Lt. Colonel seth wheeler there robin sage. Scott Lieutenant Colonel eric wheeler is an instructor at robin sage. Hes been a green beret for 13 years and served six deployments in iraq. So for someone whos never been versed on what a green beret is, or what robin sage means, they might make some gross assumption that you guys are the guys who are out there just kicking down doors. You would say . Wheeler green berets are special forces soldiers of character who are comfortable operating in ambiguous, decentra a environments. Dont shoot, dont shoot. Scott i think its interesting that green berets are much more than just muscle. They are much more than muscle. So its combination of knowing when to smile, when to negotiate, and when to pull the trigger. Scott all skills honed for the last 60 years in a new countr west of i95 and south of virginia. Wheeler all of our training for robin sage is actually through a fictitious land called pineland, of course. Scott and this is pineland. Base camp in pineland, where these green beret trainees, whose faces we cannot show, are helping the locals mount a resistance to the united province of atlantica, which has overrun pineland. Volunteer guerrilla leader we plan and we go through what it takes, the steps to get these fighters ready. Scott training a local militia to stand up to an unwanted occupier is the green berets primary mission. This training, goes from a fictional land to action in the real world, with real names, like syria, iraq, and afghanistan. Kenny tyndall is one o of volunteers, who lends his farmland. Kenny tyndall when you go rushing into a building and its a baited ambush, its a no win situation sometimes for them, but sometimes we hope it teaches them about certain things, and also about trust and building rapport. Scott what you teach them here , does that make a life changing moment for them when theyre downline . We hope it does we certainly hope it does, because if it doesnt, they are going to get is to train other countries to put their soldiers in line. Scott the goal of this days exercise against an overwhelming force of volunteers posing as enemy combatants is for them to realize they are in over their heads and to retreat, which they do, with two wounded. The Army Special Forces became known as green berets in 1961 when president john kennedy toured fort bragg, watched their tactics and noting their headgear sent their coan of this new form of operations is a real one, i am sure that the green beret will be a mark of distinction in the trying times ahead. Kennedy sent 400 green berets to vietnam to train the south vietnamese soldiers in the fight against the communistbacked viet cong guerrillas. Since vietnam, the green berets have specialized in counterinsurgency and guerrilla warfare. If conventional warfare looks like the shock and awe of Operation Iraqi freedom, then they were one of the lead responders in afghanistan. Months before troops and tanks arrived, the green berets were organizing and training the tribal leaders fighting like natives alongside the northern alliance. Back in pineland, the United States army has amassed a conventional force along the southern border. Led by Major General james linder, the forces are updated by the trainees about how their covert support of the local resistance is going. Out for the help. I know helps coming. Were selecting soldiers who are going to go out in small teams and in environments where there are no absolute answers. And theyre all going to be, theyre going to be independent, and theyre going to have to figure out how to problem solve on their own. Scott problems like a helicopter that has unexpectedly bombed their base camp. So give me two cases that are inflicted mass civilian casualties. One, two, three. Hey, i got a strong radio pulse. Scott and thats the real world, too, though right . Thats the real world. Thats, much of what we see today under the areas were operating, executing the armys task of special warfare is what we see these soldiers doing. Scott why is whats happening here in these woods so important to the future of how the u. S. Military handles all the challenges we face . The experiences that you learn in robin sage build upon a rolodex of experiences that kind of roll around in the back of your head. Robin sage is all about a series of dilemmas that is posed upon the student, where there might not be right or wrong answers, and just consequences to the decisions. Scott there are plenty of real world consequences. On august 23rd, staff sgt. Matthew thompson, a green beret serving in afghanistan, was killed by a roadside bomb. A loss that Sergeant Major roberto oquendo, a fellow green beret, says is immeasurable. Roberto oquendo um, it hurts. You know and, and even if you brother that, that, that paid the ultimate sacrifice. Scott thompson graduated from Concordia University irvine in 2010, his classmates honored him in this flag lowering ceremony. It could happen to any of us. So we understand that when we come in, and when it does happen, it really hurts. Scott for their final test, the team we observed captured their target in a nighttime raid. They passed robin sage and many of these new green berets will be deployed overseas within the year. Of the 118 soldiers who started robin sage during our visit, 101 finished and earned the green beret. Still ahead on full measure both partiesng to get out the vote, hoping for an edge in the upcoming election. Scott Political Parties are always looking for an election advantage. The feds recently made news when any mail show they approved overtime to rush through as many citizenship applications as possible before election day. Sheryl attkisson highlights another effort that has proved controversial, the attempt to turn out the felon vote. His right to vote. I was about 30. I was convicted of my fourth d. U. I. In five years, a felony. I spent time in jail and they took my rights away. Sharyl in nine states including virginia, convicted felons can only get back the right to vote if they are individually approved by the governor or a court. The 72nd governor of the commonwealth of virginia, Terry Mcauliffe. Sharyl when Terry Mcauliffe became virginias governor in 2014, hes fed up the process. In a little over the year, he sped up the right to vote for 18,000 felons, more than the previous seven governors combined. He was one of them. A former addict, he says he has been clean and lawabiding for a decade. I went through the process. It is a website, a onepage form. Your name and address, the charge. Eight to 10 minutes later, i got have been restored. It is incredible. I have now become a part of the political process. Sharyl in april, governor mcauliffe took matters a step further. With the stroke of a pen, he returned Voting Rights to 206,000 convicted felons at once. Gov. Terry mcauliffe and so today, i will sign an order restoring the civil and Voting Rights of every single individual who has completed his or her sentence as of this day , april 22, 2016. Sharyl you only heard about it after the fact. Jim plowman after the fact, right. Sharyl republican jim plowman prosecutes felony crimes in virginia and says the governors order violated the state constitution. He and more than a third of virginias commonwealth attorneys joined a lawsuit to stop it. Jim plowman it was a fairly large group, 43 of us signed onto the brief, and it was nonpartisan. In fact, of the 43, only 19 are republicans. Concerns . Jim plowman a database was just dumped into the voter system, and it wasnt vetted, it wasnt looked at, it wasnt scrubbed. Sharyl in neighboring maryland, democrats are also going for the excon vote. This year, the General Assembly expanded Voting Rights to 40,000 felons still on probation or parole. And in california, governor jerry brown just signed into law a bill to return Voting Rights to 50,000 convicted felons while theyre still doing time behind bars in county jails, starting next year. These folks, george, understand, they have served their time, theyre done with their probation or parole. Theyre back in society. Sharyl well, not all of them, as it turns out. The governors order was supposed to exclude people still in prison, mental hospitals or on probation. So how did michael hargrave, convicted in a case of underage sex, end up getting his Voting Rights restored . He was currently on probation was entered, so he does not qualify cause part of the required criteria for the governors orders is that youve completed your supervised probation. He was still on supervised probation, and for some reason , he is in the governors database as restored. Sharyl hargrave wasnt the only one. The governor wouldnt give state prosecutors the list of felons who were granted rights, so plowman did his own detective work. He plugged in names from some of his own cases and was astonished by what he found. Restored. There was one individual in particular that was sitting in our jail pending new felony charges and his rights were restored. Hes a convicted rapist. Sharyl perhaps the strangest case was that of cerda maquin. His Voting Rights were restored under the governors order after he was convicted of Sexual Battery on an 11yearold, even though he was never a u. S. Citizen. Hes not a u. S. Citizen, yet of his rights were granted on april 22. Sharyl in july, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the governors order. The felons whod been granted Voting Rights were back to square one. After his court defeat, governor mcauliffe quickly moved back to individual case reviews and restored Voting Rights of nearly 13,000 felons. We are going through the process just as the court asked me to do it, doing it individually. Sharyl he says republicans should stop griping and get busy. Rights were restored to come out and vote for hillary clinton, and this is the point ive made to the republicans. Instead of continuously complaining about them and dissing them, if you give a few minutes trying to give your reason why you should vote for you, maybe youd be in a better position today. Sharyl what makes this something other than a political dispute between someone who hopes to get a lot of democrats registered before the election and someone who doesnt want that to happen . To me, this is about an about politics. If someone has turned their life around, has overcome their felony conviction, has paid their debt to society, and has i welcome them back. But what were seeing is, you know, restore anyone, anytime, for any situation, we dont care. Sharyl as for ferrante, come november, hell vote for president for the first time. I dont think that they should ever take our right to vote away, ever. Sharyl and have you decided who youre going to vote for for president . Do you want to s scott by the way, John Hinckley who tried to murder a president could soon vote for one. In august, he was released after three decades in a Psychiatric Hospital after shooting president reagan and three other men in 1981. Now a resident of virginia, he is eligible to vote november 8th. Still ahead on full measure when rape becomes a weapon of war. A new documentary reveals what you spend a lot of time Opening Doors for these little guys. But congressman heck opens them for these guys they spent millions supporting heck, and heck supports their agenda special tax breaks even for corporations shipping jobs overseas. Worse, heck pays for them by cutting education and raising taxes on us. Congressman heck is whats wrong with washington. Dscc is responsible assault and abuse, some decades old. It could be a headline from this years president ial race, but its also the central story of a new film about rwanda that offers some lessons and hope for women around the world. Full measure correspondent Lisa Fletcher reports. Ive interviewed in my lifetime hundreds of rape victims. The rwandan testimonies were really some of the most brutal. Lisa the uncondemned opens in theaters this week, a do historic prosecution of rape as a war crime. It is the tooreal story of the horrors of rwanda, the courtroom drama, and survivors who found the courage to testify. Victoire mukambanda was one of the victims who came forward. They killed our family, they destroyed our houses, they took away our cows and then they ate them, and after that, after of them, they abused me. They raped me over and over. It was so much to ask them to come to the tribunal and to basically relive the worst moments of their lives. I began to tell her about what happened in bosnia, what happened in japan and elsewhere. And how none of these cases had been prosecuted and no one had ever been prosecuted for rape in times of war. Ever. Lisa convincing w t testify about sexual crimes was, and is, a difficult task. Sara darehshori has investigated war crimes around the world and prosecuted the rwanda case. I think it took time for people to feel comfortable coming forward. For years, there was not really any thought that crimes would ever be prosecuted. And in rwanda in particular, you had the additional problems with lack of security for witnesses. When we started, we didnt have a Witness Protection Program at all, which and as it turns out we did need one. Lisa in fact, the husband and daughter of one of the victims who testified were murdered. Lisa pruitt is a law professor at the university of california davis. She put together a study for the tribunal that cracked the code of getting the rwandan victims to come forward and has implications for pursuing rape cases elsewhere. Why do you think women who are victims of sexual abuse, sexual violence, might be reluctant to come forward . Well, theyre embarrassed. Themselves again as part of sort of a patriarchal culture, a rape culture that tells them that you must have made a bad decision by putting yourself in a situation where you were sexually assaulted. Very often, people whove been assaulted take a while to come forward for a number of reasons, including the trauma itself, but also many people feel, fear that they wont be believed. Lisa pruitt adds that transcend all cultures and not only kept rwandan women from testifying, but also hold back women in the United States from coming forward. Women are also discouraged in this culture from telling their stories. Theres all the, the victim blaming and the stereotypes that you know that rape or Sexual Assault is about sexual attractiveness. It is really just a power play. Power and domination was the undeniable aim of their attackers. Based on what you saw and what you argued in court, do you see rape as a part of war or a weapon of war . It is definitely a weapon of war. Its wielded as a form of terror. Lisa but their ultimate courtroom victory brought victoire and three other rwandan victims profiled in the film, to the United Nations for the movies premiere this week. They used the occasion to anywhere, should fear coming forward. It was for all those women that have been raped in rwanda during genocide but also for all women around the world, so thats something were so proud of as women and every woman in the world should be proud of that. Lisa it is incredible the , courage of those four ordinary women, from a rural village in rwanda changed International Law and thy this was a precedentsetting case, as big as anything ever out of the u. S. Supreme court. Scott fascinating. Thank you. Next on full measure. With all the talk of rigging or hacking the upcoming election, we talk with action, scott plenty of doubts have been raised about the integrity of our election losses campaign, team trump is pushing one message harder than ever before. Donald trump the election is rigged like you have never seen before. Scott it is not just biased media mr. Trump is blaming. He says there will be cheating at the polls. Donald trump people who died 10 years ago our voting. Scott in reality, every study exceptionally uncommon. But that doesnt mean americas Voting System is secure. The threat is very real. Its just not in the place that everybody thinks that it is. Scott Tyler Cohen Wood is a Cyber Security expert who spent years at the Defense Intelligence agency. People are terrified that its actually the Voting Machines that are causing the problems. But really, its the transmission of the data. Scott though we live in a digital age, our votinst software, and transmitting their results over the internet. If i was going to break into the systems, it would not necessarily be the Voting Machines that i would be going after. Scott what would you be going after . What i would go after is the central polling system, and i would also go after the thirdparty administrators. I would add people. I would remove people. Scott amid worries of voter intimidation by trump supporters, Hillary Clintons Campaign Just launched a push to recruit lawyers and law students to monitor polling places. That is you. Text lawyers. Scott but in the end, that might all be unnecessary. With so many different Voting Systems and machines, a lack of standardization might just be americas greatest defense against a stolen election. How vulnerable are we . But the reason that were not is because we have so many different voting Machine Systems in place. It is hard to actually break into the systems. Scott hijacking, or hacking, an entire election would be a real challenge. But as weve seen in elections past, sometimes it only takes one state or even a few precincts to make the difference. Show, sunday night football. Only on nbc. 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