{"id":259140,"date":"2010-02-01T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75341"},"modified":"2010-02-01T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:33:58","slug":"obama-already-declining-to-enforce-dadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259140","title":{"rendered":"Obama Already Declining to Enforce DADT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75336\/boehner-thinks-gay-servicemembers-are-either-not-american-or-inhuman\">Speaking of<\/a>. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sldn.org\/blog\/archives\/09-dont-ask-dont-tell-discharges-down-significantly\/\">Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We expect\u00a0the Department of Defense\u00a0to announce at the\u00a0Senate Armed Services Committee\u00a0hearing on Feb. 2 that\u00a0&#8221;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221;\u00a0discharges were <strong>down by almost 30 percent last year<\/strong>. Indeed, the department may release the discharge numbers before the hearing. As we alerted you here last week, the new trend is indeed welcoming news, but it is not a substitute for full repeal in 2010.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My emphasis. Crazy, right? At a time of two wars and an &#8220;extended surge&#8221; in Afghanistan, the Obama administration doesn&#8217;t want to throw qualified service personnel out the door just because they&#8217;re gay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of. According to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund&#8217;s blog: We expect\u00a0the Department of Defense\u00a0to announce at the\u00a0Senate Armed Services Committee\u00a0hearing on Feb. 2 that\u00a0&#8221;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221;\u00a0discharges were down by almost 30 percent last year. Indeed, the department may release the discharge numbers before the hearing. As we alerted you here last week, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}