"There isn't a timetable." That's Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman on Friday, on whether the U.S. military is actually responding to Defense Sec. Robert Gates' supposed request to look into Don't Ask Don't Tell. Yes, that's the same request Gates made in June about implementing DADT in a "more humane way."
To Gates, "humane" means not booting gay servicemen and women if they're forcibly outed by a tattle tale. Not exactly "equality under the law," but it could theoretically be good news for Air Force Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, a decorated Iraq war veteran, who was investigated for being a gay after a civilian told his bosses. About to be formally removed from duty two years shy of 20 years of service, Fehrenbach will lose medical benefits and a $50k/year retirement package.
Too bad the Pentagon doesn't appear to have moved the ball a single inch.
To be sure, Whitman added: "We're certainly aware that this is a very emotionally charged issue, but the commander in chief is clear that he would like to change the policy." And it's only taken 326 ousted gay soldiers under Obama's watch to get us here!
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In other breaking news, the sun rose in the East this morning.
Gates' June 30th "humane" comment was a transparent attempt at distraction because he coupled it with assertions that the DADT law appeared to him too inflexible when, nearly two months before, the Palm Center had published detailed examples of how the law is NOT too inflexible and HIS exiting powers, as Secty of Defense, to limit its application—a report that was widely covered in mainstream media.
And it came a week after 77 members of Congress sent a letter to the President—which got even wider MSM coverage—asking him to use such powers that DADT gives them to stop discharges.
On July 16th, Gates said in a speech in Chicago essentially that, "Golly, Aunt Bee, Otis and me have been searching Mayberry high and low to find something Andy can do but we just can't find nothin'."
The Secretary of Defense and his legal team are either
a. hopelessly stupid; or
b. intentionally ignoring what someone with no legal
degree but an access to Google could find re such existing options in order to continue to stall and distract from the fact that he and Obama are CHOOSING to do nothing.
Mr. Secretary: pick your hat.