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Obama Stands By Criticism Of Gates Arrest: 'Cooler Heads Should Have Prevailed'

ABC News | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics


President Obama today stood by his comments that the Cambridge, Mass. police department acted "stupidly" in its arrest of Henry Louis Gates, telling A...

Robert Gates Unleashed: "What Are They Going To Do, Fire Me?"

TIME | Joe Klein | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics


A few weeks ago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates trooped up to Capitol Hill to answer questions about the new Pentagon budget. This is an unseemly s...

Gates: Guantanamo "Taint" On U.S. Reputation

AP | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Obama administration had no choice but to order the shutdown of the prison at Guantanamo be...

Gitmo Lawyer: Gates May Have Committed Perjury

Raw Story | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics


The announcement Dec. 1 that Barack Obama had retained Bush Defense Secretary Robert Gates was intended to demonstrate the President-elect's desire fo...

Gates Has Canceled On Bush To Meet With Obama Team

New York Times | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics


At a brief news conference in Kandahar, Afghanistan, an Afghan reporter asked Robert M. Gates, President Bush's defense secretary, the first, pertinen...

Sam Stein

Gates Praises Obama, Outlines New Defense World

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics


Newly re-appointed Defense Secretary Bob Gates took questions from the press on Tuesday, outlining some agenda items that the Obama administration is ...

Robert Gates: Obama's Defense Secretary

Huffington Post | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics


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Gates Chances Of Staying At Defense Rise With Clinton

Bloomberg | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics


Defense Secretary Robert Gates may be closer to being tapped for extended duty by Barack Obama because of the near certainty a Democrat -- possibly Hi...