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By David Wood - Politics DailyCombat troops in Afghanistan had less opportunity than those at home to weigh in on the potential repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' law on gays and lesbians in the military, Defense Department officials acknowledged. The Pentagon, under pressure to repeal the law from President Barack Obama, Congress and its own top leadership, this summer launched what spokesman Geoff Morrell described as a "scientifically supported'' effort to survey "a large representative sample of our force'' to determine how they felt about allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly. That outreach included ...
Pentagon, WikiLeaks Spar Over 'Missed Meeting'
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- The U.S. military's expanding battle against WikiLeaks took another strange turn with the Defense Department's release of an angry letter accusing a lawyer for the online transparency organization of standing up the Pentagon's chief counsel for a phone meeting. The Pentagon, arguably one of the world's most hierarchical bureaucracies, appears to be having a hard time dealing with an organization that has no clear leadership structure, no fixed base of operations, and operates according to its own rules. Today, the Pentagon's frustrated leadership released a letter it sent ...
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