Defense secretary pursues source

Politico44 ^ | 11/12/10 | POLITICO STAFF

[ColdOne]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is opening an investigation to determine who in the Defense Department leaked information to The Washington Post that showed a majority of the military would not object if the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy were lifted.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

There are a lot of leak sources that need to be investigated.

[Darksheare]

The source?
Gates himself.

[Responsibility2nd]

Let see here. First you make up some BS report showing how the military is OK with gays in the military.

Then you get angry over leaks to said report.

Gates can go piss up a rope.

[Beagle8U]

I think the ‘leak’ is made up BS by the RATS to get queers into the military.

There is no way that Marines will want to stay in a Corps full of queers!

[Beagle8U]

“Be everything your sister wanted to be, In the Armmmieee.”

[Future Snake Eater]

It’s not that “no one would object” due to being OK with it, it’s that we know that it’s practically inevitable. Political correctness and the military go hand in sweaty hand.

[FrankR]

It’s the ones that you don’t HAVE to ask, or don’t NEED to tell, that you worry about.

[Roklok]

If only 30% of the military object to gays openly serving as the article states, I suspect that a vast majority of military members did not express their true views on gays in the military because they are concerned about retribution. I know the survey is supposed to be anonymous, but nobody is going to believe that.

[dsutah]

Well, and then there was his remark that he hopes to have the ban lifted before the Congress change-over in Jan.. I’m wondering if he even said that at all! Maybe he did; maybe he didn’t. However, I can’t imagine why he would even say anything about it until the review was done. It just doesn’t make any sense!

Now it’s possible he would want to get the review itself done before the new Congress is sworn in and ready to go. That hair-trigger ruling by that judge may have stirred things up a bit and compelled him to say something. However now he’s saying he wants to investigate who leaked the details in the review before it was done. Why on earth would he say something at all until then? I don’t know; but I smell a rat!

I realize that many on here don’t like Gates, are critical and suspicious of him. But shouldn’t we just wait and see what the results of the investigation are? Furthermore, see what he actually says about the ban then. If he did say anything before, did someone deliberately twist what he said around? As they say- “inquiring minds want to know”; this one certainly does!

Meanwhile everyone, stay tuned for the next act in this crazy, twisted drama. Da da daann...

[The Comedian]

Investigate somebody whose initials are B.O.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[little jeremiah]

The so-called survey was entirely bogus.

I thought I saved your answer, Sola Veritas - checked everywhere, braindead lately...

Anyway, Sola Veritas took the survey (and IIRC another person on one of those threads testified as well) that the survey was tilted, twisted and tortured so no truthful outcome was possible.

[Sola Veritas]

Sorry, I’m not at home but on vacation. I don’t have letter I quote.

[little jeremiah]

I just remember I added the keywords “bogus survey” to one of the threads.

I’ll find it! And have a nice vacation and don’t think of this crap! Actually I pinged out an article today - the SCOTUS refused to overturn the (9th circuit?) court’s stopping the lady judge gone wild’s ordering the mil to drop DADT. So it’s off for now. When the R’s get there in January, it’ll never get overturned. (Until we go back to the way it always was before and should be again.)

[little jeremiah]

I found two comments by people who took the survey; link to the thread and the comments:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2622910/posts

I’ve taken that survey, and its BS. It is a soft-pedal, politically correct survey that asks questions like “would you participate in social functions if there were gay people present?” The only place I got to put anything at all relevant was a spot for free text, and God knows what will happen to that. Now, you also have to know that every survey was assigned a specific tracking number, and my survey was personally adressed to me. I’m not in a position to worry much about what I say now, thank God, but if I were, I would be very careful with my answers because I don’t for a minute doubt that someone at some point can track my answers directly back to me, and that might be an issue at a future point in determining promotions, assignments, etc. You notice that the results leaked to the media are already saying most service members support the repeal. That is BS. All you have to do is look at the questions to see there will be almost no other way to interpret the results. Gays in the military are bad news, period. They have a very high level of neroses, are poor leaders, and are terrible for morale. Civilians have no idea of the stresses involved, particularly for the young enlisted troops who have no control over many aspects of their lives. If DADT is repealed, discipline, violence and suicide issues will skyrocket.
19 posted on Sunday, November 07, 2010 5:09:23 AM by binreadin

The “survey” done by DoD was bogus. It was not an attempt to guage what the service personnel thought about openly serving homosexuals, it was about how to implement the policy. I was “tagged” to take the survey as an army reservist. The survey didn’t allow one to clearly state opposition or objection. Here is the opening paragraph in the letter telling me that I had been picked to respond:

“We request your participation in the 2010 Department of Defense (DoD) Compreshensive Review Survey of the Uniformed Force. This survey will help leadership assess the impacts, if any, a change in the law commonly known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” might have on military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion, and recruiting and retention. It will also help DoD develop an action plan to support effective implementation if repeal occurs.”

Does this sound like they really care what someone thinks except the bottom line of....will you get out or encourage others to do the same?

20 posted on Sunday, November 07, 2010 3:50:20 PM by Sola Veritas