All posts tagged "mike mullen"
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Senate Sets Pentagon DADT Report Hearings for Dec. 2 and 3
The Senate Armed Services Committee, as had been suggested in recent days, announced that it would be holding hearings in the follow-up to the Nov....
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The Senator, the Secretary and the Service Chiefs
After the U.S. Senate failed to garner the votes needed to overcome a filibuster to proceed to debate on the National Defense Authorization Act on...
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No Easy Pieces
Over the past weekend, the military leadership began weighing in on the post-election – and ever-narrowing – window for the repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't...
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The (Military) Brass Tacks of Lame-Duck DADT Repeal
Over the weekend, the military leadership began weighing in on the post-election landscape for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Although the decision to...
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“Values Voters” and Attacks on DADT Repeal
D.C.’s Omni Shoreham Hotel was, this weekend, the site of the “Value Voters Summit” — a place where Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and former Gov....
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News Analysis: Four Days That Shook DADT (UPDATED)
In the 96 hours between Monday morning, May 24, and Thursday evening, May 27, America may have seen the most deft legislative accomplishment of the...
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News Analysis: DADT's State of Play
On Friday afternoon, April 30, at a little past 4 p.m., the Associated Press's Anne Flaherty posted a brief story that the secretary of defense...
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Pentagon Wants Delay on DADT Repeal UPDATED
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a letter to the chairman of the House...
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The Politics of Repeal
Calling the changes to the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' military policy a ''great improvement'' that supportive members of Congress had ''been urging them to do,''...
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Pentagon Tries Making DADT ''Fairer'' (UPDATED)
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen announced this morning at a Pentagon news briefing changes...
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell Â… Don't Vote?
When asked about equality advocates' concern that a moratorium on enforcement of the military's ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy would put off a vote on...
