Obama Stands By Criticism Of Gates Arrest: 'Cooler Heads Should Have Prevailed'
President Obama today stood by his comments that the Cambridge, Mass. police department acted "stupidly" in its arrest of Henry Louis Gates, telling A...
President Obama today stood by his comments that the Cambridge, Mass. police department acted "stupidly" in its arrest of Henry Louis Gates, telling A...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
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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...
ABC News | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics