Following yesterday's news of yet another dismissal of a gay soldier (decorated Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach, an F-15 fighter pilot and 18-year veteran of the Air Force) under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked about the policy again, this time by Air America's Ana MArie Cox.
Asked Cox: "Is their dismissal a part of his national security strategy, or is their dismissal itself a threat to national security?"
Gibbs then went on to say that Obama is working with the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to "make [the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell] happen", when in fact a Pentagon spokesman said yesterday that there were no plans to repeal the policy.
Said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell to CBS News: "The secretary has not asked his service chiefs, his servicesecretaries, his combatant commanders, anything of that sort to, sortof, start to — to do, you know, polling on that matter."
Rachel Maddow continues her excellent reporting on the topic, AFTER THE JUMP…
