At the risk of predictions and all that. See my latest at the Washington Independent. The Pentagon’s statement not ruling anything out, coming after Secretary Gates wanted to wait until December for the Carter/Ham working group to report on implementing the repeal, is a way for both Congress, anti-DADT activists and Gates to claim a victory here. Get the statutory repeal into the FY2011 Defense Authorization and then punt on implementation to when the working group gets in.

More later. This is what I’ll be spending the rest of my afternoon/evening working on.