"There is no one case that motivates this, " said Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon's top lawyer, who explained Panetta's decision to undertake the review.

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Specifically, an executive summary of a Defense Department survey was written by the department's General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, before the survey was even begun on July 7, 2010.

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The situation intensified further in November 2010 after Jeh Johnson briefed five top White House officials about the findings of the so-called Comprehensive Review Working Group (CRWG) - a Pentagon task force on the gays-in-the-military issue that he co-chaired.

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Yet, to this day, no official has publicly challenged the accuracy of the false reports about the survey's findings on military attitudes concerning preserving the ban on open homosexuals' service in uniform - even though General Counsel Jeh Johnson has privately acknowledged in a November 1 email that those reports are untrue.

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The fact is -- and I encourage you to go back to look the speeches by the Attorney General, by John Brennan, remarks by Jeh Johnson and by Harold Koh on these matters, and I think they provide a pretty voluminous accounting of matters that are treated here with great deliberation and seriousness.

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