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Bad News on Don't Ask/Don't Tell

The policy of discharging otherwise qualified gay soldiers from the military has been a hot topic this week. Last Friday, I asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to explain the difference in the risk to our security between discharging a qualified arabic linguist, and releasing photos of detainee abuse. Since then, Air America's Ana Marie Cox has followed up with Gibbs on 2 more occasions, and in all 3 cases, the Press Secretary assured us that a solution was in the works.Maybe I'm naive, but I took this to mean that a repeal of the Don't ask/Don't tell was on the near horizon, maybe a couple of ...

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