google.com - 11/24/2008
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5 days ago WASHINGTON (AP) What Robert Gates once called "inconceivable to me" his remaining as defense secretary beyond Inauguration Day is looking a bit more conceivable to the rest of Washington. The 65-year-old former spymaster has turned publicly mum on the circumstances under which he ...
commentarymagazine.com - 11/26/2008
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commentarymagazine.com —
According to the latest news reports, President-elect Obama
will nominate a national security team next week that...
is stunning in its moderation. The headliners–Bob Gates staying at Defense, Hillary Clinton becoming Secretary of State, retired ...
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Obama's Foreign Policy: The Case for Pessimism
Antiwar.com Original —
... of the antiwar wing of the party), Hillary, Robert Gates (they're trying to persuade him to stay on), and now Gen. Jones. It looks like antiwar voters voted for one thing, but are getting quite another although it won't be the first time that's happened. From " ...
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Who Rules the Pentagon?
TomDispatch —
... The new Secretary of Defense is odds on to be the old secretary of defense, Robert Gates, a confidant of the first President Bush. Still surrounded at the Pentagon by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's holdovers, he has had a long career in Washington as a ...
Who Rules the Pentagon?
Antiwar.com Original —
... chief of staff and deputy executive director during the worst years of the CIA's intelligence, imprisonment, and torturing excesses. The new secretary of defense is odds on to be
the old secretary of defense, Robert Gates, a confidant of the first President Bush. Still surrounded at the Pentagon by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's holdovers, he has had a long career in Washington as a ...
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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 ...
Statement by Secretary Gates
mudvillegazette.com 12/1/2008 — Statement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates "I am deeply honored that the President-Elect has asked me to continue as Secretary of Defense.
Mindful that we are engaged in two wars and face other serious challenges at home and around the ...
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 ...
Hullabaloo
digbysblog.blogspot.com 11/12/2008 — Monday, November 10, 2008 Change by digby Podesta also said Obama is working to build a diverse Cabinet. That includes reaching out to Republicans and independents — part of the broad coalition that supported Obama during the race against Republican ...
Gates and the National Defense Strategy
dailykos.com 12/8/2008 — For what have been described as reasons of "continuity," President-elect Obama has chosen to retain Robert Gates as his Secretary of Defense, at least for the short term. It's of no small interest, then, to see what Secretary Gates has ...
Robert Gates: Should He Have Stayed?
thewashingtonnote.com 11/26/2008 —
Bob Gates is keeping his Pentagon perch (which has been quite clear for some time).
I had moved close to the view that Gates should go. My thinking at the time was that Gates played a vital role "Out-Cheneying Cheney" in the last couple of ...
Pentagon Subordinates
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 12/2/2008 —
A lot of people have been wondering what Bob Gates’ retention means for the giant cast of subordinate appointees who populated the Department of Defense. Are all those jobs going to Republicans? The answer is no :
Deputy Defense Secretary ...
Gates will stay
politico.com 11/26/2008 — Mike Allen and ABC report that, as expected, Obama will keep Robert Gates as Defense Secretary.
There's a lot of logic to the move: It puts a Republican, as promised, in a top slot; it prevents Obama from taking the blame, immediately, for whatever ...
Gates Keeper
weeklystandard.com 11/19/2008 — The Financial Times reports that Barack Obama is “negotiating terms” under which Robert Gates will remain as Secretary of Defense in an Obama administration. It was widely assumed that Gates would keep his job regardless of who won the election and ...
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