HALTED: White House issues objection to DADT amendment!

R. Clarke Cooper, the executive director of the National Log Cabin Republicans, sent a letter yesterday to Representative Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) requesting that Hunter halt plans to introduce a potentially disruptive amendment to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’

The Washington Blade reports that Hunter announced his intention Monday to introduce an amendment to the 2012 fiscal year’s defense authorization bill that would broaden certification requirements necessary for the repeal to move forward. The proposed expansion would include the four military service chiefs among those required to sign off on the repeal of DADT before it could take full effect.

In his letter to Hunter, Cooper asked, “please do not road block the repeal of [‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’] by introducing an amendment…which would add an unnecessary and unwanted certification measure to a clear, comprehensive and thus-far successful certification process.”