{"id":577741,"date":"2010-05-25T10:03:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85635"},"modified":"2010-05-25T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:03:43","slug":"gates-reluctantly-accepts-%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-repeal-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577741","title":{"rendered":"Gates, Reluctantly, Accepts \u2018Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u2019 Repeal This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh-out statement from Geoff Morrell, chief spokesman for Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, reacting to the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/85609\/the-text-of-liebermans-dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal\">legislative language for repealing the military&#8217;s ban on open gay service<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/85605\/is-dont-ask-dont-tell-on-the-scrapheap\">general legislative strategy of putting the repeal in the fiscal 2011 defense authorization bill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Secretary Gates continues to believe that ideally the DOD review should be\u00a0completed before there is any legislation to repeal the Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell\u00a0law. With Congress having indicated that is not possible, the Secretary can\u00a0accept the language in the proposed amendment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh-out statement from Geoff Morrell, chief spokesman for Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, reacting to the proposed legislative language for repealing the military&#8217;s ban on open gay service and the general legislative strategy of putting the repeal in the fiscal 2011 defense authorization bill: &#8220;Secretary Gates continues to believe that ideally the DOD review [&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-577741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577741","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=577741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}