Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell is hitting back against criticisms of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell survey, which was distributed to 400,000 members of the Armed Forces this week. Critics have blasted the survey for everything from its focus on the troops’ supposed feelings about showering with gay and lesbian colleagues to its use of the bias-engendering term “homosexual.” In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Morrell was having none of it.He began the call by insisting that the media didn’t have the full, 103-question survey (which, for the record, TPM did), and then transitioned to criticizing the groups that made the survey available to non-participants, saying that could “deter service members from participating” and “potentially skew the answers of those that choose to participate.”
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