Desc: The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Directed by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato. With Carl Levin, Robert Gates, Mike Mullen, John McCain. The strange history of the now abandoned American 1993-bill, «Don't ask, don't tell» where sexual orientation was a "non-talk" policy in the American forces, leading to 13.368 getting kicked out before 2011.