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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One would have to suspect the motive behind the effort to put together this panel.
Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. I take that responsibility very seriously.
It is a measurement. But I don't think it is the measurement. I mean, I was in a war with a lot of body counts every day. We lost everyone.
This is so unpredictable. And we've never seen anything quite like this in our lifetime, so there is no playbook here.
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