Joe Klein is a Fan of Robert Gates

May 28, 2009 8:36 AM | permalink | comments: 0

Excellent article about Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a holdover from the Bush Administration. The piece, by Joe Klein, is called "Robert Gates: The Bureaucrat Unbound." Here's one excerpt:

A military intelligence officer who was an Iraq specialist told me he had been pleading for more resources throughout the Rumsfeld years: "Iraq was Rumsfeld's fourth highest priority, after China, North Korea and Iran," he said. "But Gates called me in and asked, 'What do you need?' And he gave us everything we requested."

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