In today’s Wall Street Journal, former Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark, defends the policy of refusing the U.S. military the assistance of the school’s Office of Career Services, which was continued by his successor, Elena Kagan.

In the course of his op-ed, Clark refers throughout to “the military’s policy” of don’t ask, don’t tell. Yet, as Dean Clark surely knows, this policy was and is the country’s policy, not the military’s. We do have civilian control of the military in the United States, and this policy is based on legislation passed by Congress and signed by the president. So, to repeat the obvious point: Why punish the military for the policy of the government–in this case the Clinton administration?

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