White House Press Briefing: Strike 3 on Don't Ask, Don't Tell

At today's White House Press Briefing, Robert Gibbs was asked, again, about "Don't ask/Don't tell" at the top of the briefing, and again said that the President was "working with the Joint Chiefs, the Pentagon and others (previously, he's said "congress") to bring about a change in that policy."

Given the news that Congress doesn't seem to have gotten that memo, I followed up with Gibbs about the lack of urgency: (CSpan had the wrong video, here's the full briefing. Check the 34:30 mark)



I will get into this a little more deeply later, but suffice it to say I am deeply disappointed in how the DADT is going.

The measure currently in Congress is, likely, a year or more from a vote in the House, let alone passage. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, meanwhile, also appears to be in no big hurry.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but let's see how this policy looks when actionable intelligence goes untranslated because Daniel Choi isn't there to do it.

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