Robert Gates and the Tortured World of US Intelligence

Roger Morris begins a three-part series on Robert Gates today stating: "It was a failed administration's ritual scapegoating, the ousting last winter of its ruinous secretary of defense. But in the sauve qui peut confirmation of his replacement - 'The only thing that mattered,' said a Senate aide, 'was that he was not Don Rumsfeld' - there was inadvertent irony.'"
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