Don't Ask, Don't Tell?
August, 1998
Poor Timothy McVeigh. In addition to sharing his name with the Oklahoma City bomber, the Navy submarine crew chief made the mistake of choosing "boysrch" as his America Online handle. That caught the eye of a Navy wife to whom he had sent e-mail. She looked up his AOL user profile, which described him as a gay man named Tim from Honolulu. Then she tipped off his superiors. Violating its own "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which prohibits the military from making any effort to...
