Elisabeth Bumiller in today's NYT:
Gay rights leaders pointed soon afterward to comments Mr. McCain made in 2006 on "Hardball" on MSNBC about his willingness to change the policy if Pentagon leaders called for repeal. "The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, 'Senator, we ought to change the policy,' then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it,' " he said then.
To explain the apparent discrepancy, Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for Mr. McCain, said that the senator thought Admiral Mullen was speaking personally, not on behalf of the Joint Chiefs, and that once a Pentagon review was complete, Mr. McCain would listen to military leaders as a whole.
Yep, the chairman of Joint Chiefs comes up to Capitol Hill to share his personal feelings.
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