(Holy criminy I hate "BREAKING" diaries. Someone please flog me.)
UPDATED 2:00PM Eastern: Via @kerryeleveld of The Advocate, Lt. Choi and Capt. Pietrangelo have been arrested and removed from the fence.
I'm waiting for a "mainstream" news source to put this up, but the DC Agenda (formerly known as the Washington Blade) is reporting via its Twitter feed that Lt. Dan Choi, the West Point alum who cofounded Knights Out and has quickly become a leading voice for the repeal of Don't Ask/Don't Tell, has chained himself to the fence in front of the White House.
Choi had recently been deployed on active duty, but was in DC today to testify at a Senate hearing on the DADT repeal. I don't have much to go on here, but we'll piece it together over the fold...
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