Pollsters: Pentagon's Policy Survey May Be 'Overkill'

(July 13) -- The Pentagon's confidential, 103-question survey e-mailed to 400,000 active-duty and reserve troops last week -- and leaked to the media two days later -- is aimed at gauging their views on lifting the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the service. But it's being viewed in social science circles as the statistical equivalent of the Powell Doctrine, and at least one senator raised concerns today that survey respondents might feel they're empowered to dictate policy...

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