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washingtonindependent.com - 11/12/2008
Another Year’s Worth Of Gates?
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So says Yochi Dreazen of The Wall Street Journal : President-elect Barack Obama is leaning toward asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain in his position for at least a year, according to two Obama advisers. A senior Pentagon official said Mr. Gates would likely accept the offer if it is ...
Obama May Ask Gates to Keep Post
online.wsj.com - 11/11/2008
Obama May Ask Gates to Keep Post
— online.wsj.com — President-elect Obama is leaning toward asking Defense Secretary Gates to remain in his position for at least... a year. An official said Gates would likely accept the offer. (more) Obama May Ask Gates to Keep Post

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ft.com - 11/18/2008
FT.com / World - Obama in talks with Gates on Pentagon role
— ft.com — President-elect Barack Obama and Robert Gates are negotiating terms under which the defence secretary would remain as... Pentagon chief in his administration, the Financial Times has learned. Mr Obama, through an intermediary, has approached Mr Gates, ... (more) FT.com / World - Obama in talks with Gates on Pentagon role

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talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/12/2008
About Gates at DOD
— talkingpointsmemo.com — As you know, there was a lot of chatter yesterday about Obama keeping Bob Gates on at... Defense for some indeterminate period of time. And we can talk a lot about whether or not that's a good thing. But what I'm not hearing a lot about in this ... (more) About Gates at DOD

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Newshoggers.com:  Robert Gates

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  On Keeping Gates

Ben Smith's Blog:  Obama's counterinsurgency

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Robert Gates
Newshoggers.com — ... about talk that Obama might consider keeping Robert Gates on as Defense Secretary.  Gates has appeared to be an island of sanity in a sea of the criminally insane.  Spencer Ackerman makes an excellent case for keeping Gates on for a year but gates has a lot of skeletons in his closet going back to the Iran-Iraq war and Iran-Contra.  ...

On Keeping Gates
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Ackerman sees the upside.

Obama's counterinsurgency
Ben Smith's Blog — This Ackerman line, on the speculation that Obama will keep Robert Gates, could perhaps be applied more widely: Come to think of it, this is good counterinsurgency strategy put into practice: Obama would be co-opting Gates, a Republican “reconcilable,” so he can give the GOP faithful a good-faith opportunity to cooperate — and to steamroll the dead-enders.

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