Powell: 'I Didn't Misrepresent DADT to Clinton'
CBS News reports:
Colin Powell has released a statement saying that he did not misrepresent how the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy would be put into effect to former President Clinton.
Mr. Clinton said in an interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, "Now, when Colin Powell sold me on don't ask, don't tell, here's what he said it would be. Gay service members would never get in trouble for going to gay bars, marching in gay rights parades as long as they weren't in uniform."
"That was what they were promised," the former president said. "That's a very different don't ask, don't tell than we got."
"What we got as soon as General Powell retired was this vicious mid- and low-level officer feedback where they--for a year or so--made it worse than it had been before," Mr. Clinton continued. "Then, they sort of settled down. But the reason I accepted it was because I thought it was better than an absolute ban. And because I was promised it would be better than it was."
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