nytimes.com - 12/13/2008
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned that foreign powers should not try to “test” President-elect Barack Obama with a crisis in his first months in office. >
mcclatchydc.com - 12/19/2008
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WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is drawing up
plans to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison in...
anticipation that one of President-elect Barack Obama's first acts will be ordering the closure of the detention center associated with the ...
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Gates orders development of plans to close Guantanamo
openleft.com - 12/9/2008
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Michael Tomasky writing in the Guardian about how
anyone who thought Gates was a bad pick are...
complete idiots: And people who can't see that Obama needs to reassure the political establishment by doing things like re-appointing Robert Gates at the ...
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What Would Obama Do?
voices.washingtonpost.com - 12/8/2008
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Mr. Gates, it would be GREAT if you
are invited to join PE Obama's team. Also, I...
would like to thank you and Melinda for the work you're doing with your foundation. I think that you would be an excellent addition to PE O's team with your expertise in ...
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Bill Gates Says He's Open to a Role Helping Obama Admin ...
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Gates to Foreign Leaders: Don't Test Obama
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Speaking in the middle east, the defense secretary says:
"Anyone who thought that the upcoming months might present opportunities to 'test' the new president would be sorely mistaken."
Adds: "President Obama and his national security team, myself included, will be ready to defend the interests of the United States and our friends and allies from the moment he takes office on January 20."
Gates then makes ...
The Saturday Word: Housing Head
The Caucus —
... that $700 billion financial rescue fund to help General Motors and Chrysler make it through the year. Although he has yet to take office, the auto bailout has been, arguably, Mr. Obama’s first test. Speaking in Bahrain early his morning, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned foreign powers that they should not offer up any “test” of their own – an allusion to ...
No Combat Troops
Eschaton —
No Combat Troops Little item on the front page of the NYT: The top American commander in Iraq said some America troops would remain in a support role in cities past a summer 2009 deadlime. Bumiller on page 28.
Bush makes farewell visit to Iraq to highlight new security agreement.
Think Progress —
... : Nearly 150,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq fighting a war that is remarkably unpopular in the United States and across the globe.” Despite the security agreement’s call for U.S. troops to withdraw from all Iraqi cities by Summer 2009, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said yesterday that some troops would stay past the deadline to “help support and train Iraqi forces.” ...
The Next Steps To Get Out Of Iraq
Wonk Room —
... – continue to make this same fundamental error. Even the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, General Raymond Odierno, has intimated the possibility of U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the SOFA withdrawal deadline while ...
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Gates warns enemies not to test Obama —
Reuters: Politics 12/13/2008
MANAMA (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned the United States' enemies on Saturday against trying to take advantage of the early months of the new Washington administration to test U.S. resolve.
Obama picks N.Y. official to run housing dept —
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named the head of New York's urban housing agency to run the Washington department that attempts to make housing affordable for all Americans and end lingering racial discrimination.
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