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If courts intervened, preparation time for change would be lost
BY ED O’KEEFE AND CRAIGWHITLOCK The Pentagon is increasingly
worried that Congress will not act to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, a scenario that defense officials fear would prompt federal courts to inter- vene and immediately allow gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces instead of giving the military several months or years to prepare. In an appearance before the
Senate Armed Services Commit- tee on Thursday, Defense Secre- tary Robert M. Gates warned, “Those that choose not to act legislatively are rolling the dice that this policy will not be abrupt- ly overturned by the courts.” But senior Democratic aides in
the Senate concede that a vote this year to end the ban is grow- ing highly unlikely because it is part of a massive defense policy bill that requires weeks of debate. With three weeks left before Christmas, senators are expected to consider tax cuts, a govern- ment spending plan and possibly a nuclear-disarmament treaty withRussia, leaving little time for other legislation. The aides spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter on the record. Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chairman Mike Mullen, citing a Pentagon report released Tues- day, said there is a “low risk” to ending the ban only if the De- fense Department can roll out changes gradually and keep the process under their control. Court rulings this fall— which
temporarily suspended the law and led to bureaucratic chaos at the Pentagon and recruiting sta- tions — alarmed defense and military officials, who said they were caught by surprise. “I think that woke a lot of
people up,” Gen. James E. Cart- wright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said in an interview Wednesday. Cartwright, the chiefs of staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the comman- dants of the Marine Corps and Coast Guard will testify before the Armed Services Committee on Friday. “Given the opportunity to
choose on how and if the law is repealed, I’drather have the legis- lature do it than the judicial side,” Cartwright said. A federal court decision forcing an immediate end to the policy would put gays currently serving in uniform in an awkward position, he said. Defense Department General
Counsel Jeh C. Johnson, testify- ing Thursday before the Senate panel, recounted how two federal court rulings forced the Pentagon to shift course on “don’t ask, don’t tell” twice in eight days. “This legal uncertainty is not
going away anytime soon,” he said, noting that a legal challenge brought by the Log Cabin Repub- licans remains under consider- ation by theU.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The report written by Johnson
and Army Gen. Carter F. Ham cited a survey of about 115,000
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The Congress, I’mcertain, is will- ing to work with us on that,” he said. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
strongly criticized the Pentagon’s newreport Thursday. “At this time, we should be inherently cautious about mak- ing any changes that would affect our military, and what changes we do make should be the prod- uct of careful and deliberate con-
sideration,” said the senator, a leading critic of ending the ban. McCain also faulted the study
because it did not examine whether the law should be re- pealed and said he worried that the survey accounts for the opin- ions of just 6 percent of the total armed forces. In his testimony, Mullen ac- knowledged McCain’s concerns, noting that some troops quoted in the report worry about having to bunk or shower with openly
gay troops. “We’ll deal with that,” the ad-
miral said. “But I believe, and history tells us, that most of them will put aside personal proclivi- ties for something larger than themselves and for each other.” He added: “There are some for
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Staff writer Shailagh Murray contributed to this report.
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