{"id":270986,"date":"2010-02-03T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75647"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:21:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:21:45","slug":"colin-powell-an-architect-of-%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-now-favors-its-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/270986","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell, an Architect of \u2018Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell,\u2019 Now Favors Its Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75542\/mullen-and-gates-forcefully-back-repeal-of-militarys-gay-ban\">Adm. Mike Mullen<\/a> is now joined by the influential <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/03\/powell-favors-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell\/?hp\">former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn the almost 17 years since the \u2018don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 legislation was passed, attitudes and circumstances have changed,\u201d General Powell said in a statement issued by his office. He added: \u201cI fully support the new approach presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee this week by Secretary of Defense Gates and Admiral Mullen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-75647\"><\/span>Powell was one of the leading forces behind the 1993 legislation that came to be codified as &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221; For Powell to change his mind on the issue is a serious boost to the law&#8217;s repeal.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gay.americablog.com\/2010\/02\/breaking-colin-powell-now-favors-repeal.html\">John Aravosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adm. Mike Mullen is now joined by the influential former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: \u201cIn the almost 17 years since the \u2018don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 legislation was passed, attitudes and circumstances have changed,\u201d General Powell said in a statement issued by his office. He added: \u201cI fully support the new approach presented [&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-270986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270986","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=270986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}