Report: Obama can stop the discharge of openly gay and lesbian service members now

[Behind the Aegis]

I would love to see a White House response to the arguments in this study, but I'm sure we'll continue to get chirping crickets. It makes the excuses for why the Obama Administration thinks it can do NOTHING about DADT is pure baloney.
A new report released today, "How to End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': A Roadmap of Political, Legal, Regulatory, and Organizational Steps to Equal Treatment," sponsored by the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, clearly presents a way the President can stop the discriminatory discharge of gay and lesbian service members without Congress passing a law. It boils down to three points (the full release is below the fold).

1) Under the law "the President may suspend any provision of law relating to promotion, retirement, or separation applicable to any member of the armed forces who the President determines is essential to the national security of the United States" during a "period of national emergency." The statute specifically defines a "national emergency" as a time when "members of a reserve component are serving involuntarily on active duty."

Check on that front. How many tours have reservist gone on now?

2) Don't Ask, Don't Tell grants to the Defense Department authority to determine the process by which discharges will be carried out, saying they will proceed "under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense... in accordance with procedures set forth in such regulation."

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[atreides1]

1. But he won't

He wants it done through legislation. Which means it'll be a cold day in hell before DADT is tossed out.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. I know.

A failed promise.

[snowdays]

3. He has kicked it down the road. He wants no contraversal items.

[mitchtv]

4. how unusual !

quel suprise!

[snowdays]

5. :-)