{"id":439101,"date":"2010-03-17T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79504"},"modified":"2010-03-17T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:43:41","slug":"senate-panel-continues-%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439101","title":{"rendered":"Senate Panel Continues \u2018Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u2019 Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Armed Services Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/79351\/petraeus-says-the-time-has-come-to-consider-repealing-dont-ask-dont-tell\">might still not have Gen. David Petraeus&#8217;s eight-minute statement<\/a> on the military&#8217;s ban on open gay service, but tomorrow morning, <a href=\"http:\/\/armed-services.senate.gov\/e_witnesslist.cfm?id=4476\">hearings resume on the prospective end to &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221;<\/a> Two young mid-career ex-officers, Michael D. Almy, a former Air Force major, and Jenny L. Kopfstein, a former Navy lieutenant, are expected to testify about how the policy cost them their military careers. A retired Marine four-star general, John J. Sheehan, is expected to offer counterarguments for why the policy ought to remain in place. (If Sheehan&#8217;s name sounds familiar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/15\/AR2007041500564.html\">you might be an Iraq war obsessive<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Armed Services Committee might still not have Gen. David Petraeus&#8217;s eight-minute statement on the military&#8217;s ban on open gay service, but tomorrow morning, hearings resume on the prospective end to &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221; Two young mid-career ex-officers, Michael D. Almy, a former Air Force major, and Jenny L. Kopfstein, a former Navy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439101","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=439101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}