Don't Ask Don't Tell

Eyes On The Clock For DADT Repeal Advocates After Pentagon Report

Rachel Slajda | December 1, 2010, 10:45AM

A crowd protests "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" outside the White House

The release of the Pentagon's Don't Ask, Don't Tell review yesterday brought a collective sigh of relief from the gay advocacy and progressive organizations lobbying for the policy's repeal. Now, they say, they can zero in on the senators who told them this summer that they couldn't vote for repeal until the review was done.

"It's probably one of the best tools repeal advocates can us in the Senate lame duck session," Aubrey Sarvis, the head of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, said yesterday.

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