Higgs Boson wrote:

Wimp Obama could have ended this nonsense with an executive order, as
did Truman with racial segregation. Instead he bucks it over to the
Congress, as with so much else, notably health care. Where's the
leadership???


Legally, the president can't end DADT with an executive order or military
command. DADT is federal law (10 USC 654).

[see http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/654.html ]