Constitution Takes New Hit from Senators at Gates Hearing

By Ray McGovern

Tuesday’s charade at the Senate Armed Forces Committee included repeated allusion to the biblical injunction to “speak truth to power.” This has never been Robert Gates’ forte. Rather, his modus operandi has always been to ingratiate himself with the one with the power, and then recite—or write memos setting forth—what he believes that person would like to hear.

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