washingtonmonthly.com - 12/24/2008
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OBAMA'S PENTAGON.... When word first leaked that Robert Gates was likely to stay on as Barack Obama's Defense Secretary, one of the principal concerns on the left was over Gates' deputies -- Gates may be sensible, but deputies will have...
thehill.com - 12/31/2008
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thehill.com —
Despite keeping Defense Secretary Robert Gates in the
Pentagon, President-elect Obama’s transition team informed 90 Bush appointees...
their services will not be needed after Inauguration Day. Scott Gration, a senior official on Obama’s transition team, ...
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Obama dismisses Bush Pentagon appointees
washingtonpost.com - 12/21/2008
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Robert Gates Articles Editorial: NASA's Administrator (Philadelphia Inquirer)
1/3/2009 3:53:52 AM Two Strong Contenders for Person of...
the Year (Aviation Week) 1/2/2009 1:40:12 PM Lawsuit on religion in military expanded (Kansas City Star) 12/31/2008 ...
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Robert Gates News & Articles on washingtonpost.com
michellemalkin.com - 12/28/2008
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... As Steve Benen rightly notes, this was one of the concerns expressed by many of us who opposed (or at least were skeptical of) the move to keep Gates at the Pentagon. We may or may not have been fine with Gates, but we certainly weren't fine with all those Bush appointees. ...
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BREAKING NEWS: Gates to remain at Pentagon
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/26/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings CNN : Several officials close to President-elect Barack Obama's transition tell CNN that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to stay on the job for at least the first year of the new administration. One source ...
Gates
washingtonmonthly.com 11/26/2008 — GATES.... As has been widely reported, Barack Obama will keep Defense Secretary Robert Gates at his post next year. This is not a surprise -- speculation about Gates staying on was common even before the election -- but it is...
The Debate Over Gates
openleft.com 11/25/2008 — The most important appointment decision Obama will make during the transition, bar none, is who becomes, or remains, Secretary of Defense. As I have noted in the past , the Department of Defense oversees the expenditure of 52% of all discretionary ...
What Would Obama Do?
openleft.com 12/9/2008 — 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 ...
Gates Stays on at Pentagon?
mudvillegazette.com 11/26/2008 — First, your U.S. history trivia for the day: Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War throughout World War Two under Democrat Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, was a Republican.
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And now back to the news. If the rumors are true, then Politico ...
Times: Gates to Stay at Defense
dailykos.com 11/26/2008 — Peter Baker and Thom Shanker at The New York Times write: Obama Plans to Retain Gates at Defense Department : President-elect Barack Obama has decided to keep Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in his post, a show of bipartisan continuity in a ...
Bush Makes Xmas Eve Appointments —
First Read 12/24/2008
From NBC's John YangPresident Bush and his administration -- well, most of his administration other than Defense Secretary Robert Gates -- will be moving on in a few weeks, but Mr. Bush is still exercising his power of appointment.On Christmas Eve, he ...
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