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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.'"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062007D.shtml

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ROGER MORRIS: THE WORLD THAT MADE BOB
https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6340/


Informant: jensenmk

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The tortured world of US intelligence

Asia Times
by Roger Morris

06/22/07

Robert Gates has returned to Washington as secretary of defense with a quiet vengeance and with all the skills acquired in his rough-and-tumble years in the intelligence bureaucracy still intact. His laden resume, gathered over many decades, is evidence that Washington’s tortuous, often misguided foreign policies did not begin with the Bush administration, and will not end with it. In this three-part series, Roger Morris, formerly a senior staffer of the National Security Council, provides not just a portrait of the real Robert Gates, but a history of America’s global covert action and intervention...

https://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF23Ak03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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