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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald never passes up an opportunity to take a crack at Pres. Obama [View all]dsc
(52,155 posts)and avarois than yours. I base that on several things. One, the administration said repeatedly that they were planning on waiting until 2011 to repeal DADT. Now let's be blunt here, anyone with a political pulse knew we would lose the House in the 2010 elections making that an impossibility. Two, the administration only started really working gay issues when both vocal protests and monetary protests made the administration start to act. Three, even then, DADT only got repealed after it was clear that no budget deal could be made. Now, after the gay revolt and the polls started going well on gay marriage, Obama did stand up. But, frankly what I see was an administration dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing.
Now as to the other point. Greenwald never used the word lied. He did say, accurately, that some of what was said, turned out not to be accurate. Where I disagree with Greenwald is on the need for an investigation since I think the reason for there being some accuracy issues is the cia compound.