I understand that the senior military leadership have engaged in a year-long monitoring process and found that repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' has not had any impacts on readiness, effectiveness, unit cohesion, recruiting, and retention.
Hagel discusses the positive outcomes of the repeal after monitoring.
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The statutory authority is the AUMF of 2001, and if you wanted to add something to that, it would probably be the AUMF of 2002.
There is going to be some severe reckoning and review, and a top-down, break it all down and asking themselves, who are we? What do we believe in?
When you have a national leader, our national world leader, who has left dignity behind, decency behind, honesty, integrity behind them, that's where you start.
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