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Congress Wednesday held the first hearing on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy since it was instituted 15 years ago. Some Democrats envision a major push to repeal the underlying law next year. A look at the policy's role in today's armed forces and shifting public and political views on gays on the military.
Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, US Army (Ret.), strategist who consults with the U.S. Army; member of the Secretary of Defense's retired military analyst group; former vice president for policy with the Family Research Council; before retiring from the Army in 1993, served as adviser to the Defense Department Military Working Group on homosexuals in the military; also served as inspector general at the Pentagon and as chief of the ethics and training branch of the U.S. Army Infantry School.
Capt. Joan Darrah, US Navy (Ret.), former Naval intelligence officer
Aaron Belkin, associate professor of political science at the University of California at Santa Barbara; founder and director of the University's Michael D. Palm Center
Rep. Susan Davis, Democratic congresswoman representing California's 53rd district; chair of the House Armed Services Committee on Personnel
Paul Ehrlick warned of a looming ecological crisis in his 1968 best-selling book, "The Population Bomb." Forty years later, he’s back with a new look at how the impact human evolution has had on the environment may threaten the survival of the species.
Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies and Biology at Stanford University and author of "The Population Bomb," among other books, essays, and papers.
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