Bill Clinton: “Without lying about it. But if the military code of justice says that homosexual acts are illegal, if they keep it, then…”

“Without lying about it. But if the military code of justice says that homosexual acts are illegal, if they keep it, then they'd have to observe that. But when we went to ``don't ask, don't tell,'' it was all we could get through the Congress. The Congress had a veto-proof majority to reverse the policy I recommended. Now a new administration and new Members of Congress, they're free to do something different. What we're doing now--in August, we issued some new guidelines to try to correct some of the abuses, because the policy, as it was articulated in '93, has been often abused, and that's what's led to some of these expulsions, some of this harassment. The Secretary of Defense is absolutely committed to faithfully implementing the policy. It's really ``don't ask, don't tell,'' don't pursue, under those circumstances. Mr. King. So it's not the policy that's wrong?”