"When they need people, they keep them. When they don't, they implement their policy of discrimination," said the director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. The group found that "the number of gays dismissed from the military under the Pentagon's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy has dropped to its lowest level in nine years as U.S. forces fought in Afghanistan and Iraq." In related news, the Log Cabin Republicans [3] protested the Office of Special Counsel's decision to remove "information about sexual-orientation discrimination" [4] from federal websites. The websites were changed based on the new Special Counsel's interpretation of a 1978 law, which he believes bans discrimination based on homosexual conduct, but not homosexual status [5].