Tag: don’t ask don’t tell

Time to Tell (IV)

I got another email from a somebody who worked with my father. He wrote: Charlie took me to a book party where he introduced me to Colin Powell. On the way out Charley and I were speaking about DADT and I suddenly realized that he thought that it was going to a permanent solution to…
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Time to Tell (III)

Lady Gaga wants “don’t ask don’t tell” repealed. That should settle that once and for all! I’m pretty sure my father (AKA: Charles “Who’s James Brown?” Moskos) would have no idea who Lada Gaga is.

Time to Tell (II)

I received a very nice email from Rob Levinson, Lt Col, USAF (Ret). In 2007 he may have been the highest ranking active-duty officer to publicly come out against “don’t ask don’t tell.” He had kind words about my father (it says something that so many of my father’s opponentswrite me with kind words to…
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Time to Tell

I have an op-ed in today’s Washington Post about my father and “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” It’s got absolutely nothing to do with policing. I was the first critic of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” It was 1993, and I was home on break from college. My father, Charles Moskos, and I were watching TV and…
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