There’s a Pentagon presser at 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold hearings. First day is Gates, Mullen and the Defense Department report authors, Jeh Johnson and Gen. Carter Ham. Second day is all the service chiefs. Expect that to be when repeal opponents try to garner their talking points. [...]

Pal and one-time guestblogger Ian Moss has a good Huffington Post piece recommending a way his Marine Corps and the rest of the military could implement an end to the discriminatory policy, and notes repeal’s relationship to the further repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act: A recent report from The Center for American Progress provides [...]

Now that Defense Secretary Gates has unveiled his changes to the implementation of DADT, here’s my new(er) piece for the Washington Independent this morning: Gates said the changes, endorsed by Joint Chiefs of Staff and vetted by the Pentagon’s top lawyer, would add “a greater measure of common sense and common decency” for service members [...]

A unilateral step to be taken by Defense Secretary Gates on DADT. “He will announce changes to the way the current law is being enforced that make it more difficult to begin investigations and kick people out,” a defense source told me. Ahead of full repeal, that’s something concrete on the issue in 2010. Attackerlady [...]

He’s up on the Hill tomorrow morning, testifying mostly about Central Command’s budget request to the Senate Armed Services Committee. He’s hinted on ‘Meet The Press’ that he didn’t want to give his opinion on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell until he was before a congressional panel, and — well, here goes. He’s someone a younger [...]

Yes, it concerns Eric Massa. This is a quote printed by the New York Daily News after some of Massa’s old Navy subordinates came forward with accounts of Massa harassing them: “It’s a cautionary tale” of a superior officer allegedly seeking to prey upon subordinates that argues against repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” [...]