Ambinder: "Pentagon To Announce Some "Don't Ask" Details Next Week"

[TheWraith]

"The Pentagon is with us," the official said. And Geoff Morell, Gates's spokesman, e-mails me to say that "The Department leadership is actively working on an implementation plan and will have more to say about it next week." So -- Obama's pledge to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell was more than words -- he's instructed the military to get it done as soon as Congress repeals the law. A Senate hearing is set for February 2, featuring testimony from Mullens= and Gates. An outside hearing is set for February 11. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) doesn't know if he has the votes to cross the 60-person threshold in the Senate, but the expected endorsement by Mullen will make it difficult for opponents to argue that the military brass isn't ready.

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/01/pentagon_to_announce_some_dont_ask_details_next_week.php

[zipplewrath]

1. Then why aren't we suspending investigations an expulsions?

A simple executive order suspending investigations and expulsions until some future date or event would seem appropriate if in fact "the Pentagon is with us".

[Zenlitened]

3. Agreed. DADT expulsions need to be suspended. - n/t

[TheWraith]

5. One, legislating via executive order is a bad thing.

Second, anything which takes pressure off Congress to actually repeal it is also a bad idea.

It's not like the defense appropriations bill is far off. Probably late March, according to reports.

[sarge43]

2. But Article 125, UCMJ, is still alive and well.

It's the sodomy ban and by the Five Sided Circus' definition that's anything other than mutual genital contact between a man and woman. So a gay or lesbian couple still could be subject to court-martial. Yes, so could a straight couple, but guess which couple is more likely to be flog through the fleet.

[Q3JR4]

4. Good first step.

Q3JR4
Cautiously optimistic, but reserving judgment until more information becomes available.