Levin OK With Pentagon's DADT Survey, Provided Results Don't Leak

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Levin OK With Pentagon's DADT Survey, Provided Results Don't Leak
Sam Stein
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First Posted: 07-13-10 11:24 AM | Updated: 07-13-10 12:46 PM

Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesday that he supports an internal Pentagon survey of servicemembers' opinions of "Don't Ask Don't Tell", provided that the questions are phrased in a way that ensures the results won't affect policy.

But the Michigan Democrat, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee and is a vocal opponent of DADT, expressed deep concern that the survey results would be leaked, in an effort to launch a quasi-veto threat of DADT's repeal.

"I wouldn't call for them to be released at all. They will probably leaked. But it won't be leaked at my suggestion," Levin said, during a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. "It should not be released in my judgment. It was intended to be a private survey and it ought to stay that way. I have no hopes that that will be the case. But I obviously dream."

A bit of controversy erupted late last week when it was revealed that the Defense Department sent a survey to 400,000 servicemembers asking them for their opinions on DADT -- the discriminatory policy that prohibits gays from serving openly in the armed forces. Critics noted that internal polling has not been done during other moments of desegregation within the military (both with women and African-Americans). Moreover, they expressed concern that the results of the findings could be used to stall congressional action in repealing DADT, or to institute a system of open segregation in the armed forces once congressional action is finished.

These are legitimate concerns, said Levin. And it is vital to dispel the notion that the survey's results will impact any future internal-military policy.

[rocktivity]

1. TORO TURD!!!

The freaking QUESTIONS have leaked, LOL!!!

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3. Levin is a hypocrite

Fuck him. He's an idiot.

[sui generis]

4. just goes to show

one doesn't have to be smart to be a democrat. will someone please get that man a copy of the gay agenda, a latte, and a volvo.

But first, can anyone here define "morale"? I mean, without a wiktionary lookup. Because that survey was enormously concerned with morale, and I got the idea that even though I don't clearly define "morale" in any concrete way in my head that morale is the single most important thing in military service, so important in fact that I can't think of any other thing but morale that matters, and if something affects morale in ANY WAY then it MUST NOT BE ALLOWED.

Anyway, that was just my first impression. And my second one too. The survey is a bogus piece of dookie designed for partial truth people to conflate into an entire truth.