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	frontline: the gulf war: oral history: robert gates
		Gates: We got word that a call was coming through from Gorbachev for the President, usually these things take a while to arrange--the long distance companies haven't quite got the arrangement between Moscow and Washington figured out yet, but we knew in advance that Gorbachev would be calling.
		Gates: We gathered in the Oval Office later that night, and the preliminaries in some respects were as interesting as the actual meeting.
		Gates: I believe that his not using the chemicals is one of the great mysteries of the Gulf War.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/gates/1.html (2966 words)

	About Robert Gates
		Gates was busy pursuing hypotheses and making unsubstantiated arguments attempting to show Soviet expansion in the Third World, instead of looking for or paying attention to facts that pointed in the opposite direction.
		Robert Gates served as assistant to the Director of the CIA in 1981 and as Deputy Director for Intelligence for 1982 to 1986.
		Gates' poor judgment in not pursuing the possibility of Government wrongdoing more aggressively, I still find it incredible that the Deputy Director of CIA was not aware of that major covert operation.
	www.afterdowningstreet.org /node/15377/print (1053 words)

	BREITBART.COM - Gates: Iraq Failure Would Be 'Calamity'
		Robert Gates assumed the helm at the Pentagon on Monday, warning in his first public remarks as defense secretary that failure in Iraq would be a "calamity" that would haunt the United States for years.
		Gates said he wants to hear the views of U.S. commanders on how to improve the situation, "unvarnished and straight from the shoulder." The remarks seemed to contrast with critics' complaints that the man he replaced, Donald H. Rumsfeld, did not listen enough to the advice of the military's top officers.
		Gates was a member of the Iraq Study Group that spent nine months assessing the situation in Iraq and produced recommendations that include phasing out most U.S. combat troops by 2008.
	www.breitbart.com /news/2006/12/18/D8M3FSL80.html (954 words)

	Populist Party - Robert Gates-Gate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		More serious still was Gates' denial of awareness of Oliver North's illegal activities in support of the Contra attacks in Nicaragua, despite the fact that senior CIA officials testified that they had informed Gates that North had diverted funds from the Iranian arms sales for the benefit of the Contras.
		Pointing out Gates' reputation for putting pressure on analysts to shape their conclusions to fit administration policies, Holt called the nomination "deeply troubling" and stressed that the confirmation hearings "should be thorough and probing." Too bad Holt is not in the Senate.
		And Gates has been able to escape close scrutiny of his own involvement in extralegal and illegal activities largely because there are far too few journalists with the enterprise and courage of Robert Parry.
	www.populistamerica.com /robert_gates_gate (2540 words)

	Robert M. Gates
		Robert M. Gates was sworn in on December 18, 2006, as the 22nd Secretary of Defense.
		Secretary Gates served as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from 1986 until 1989 and as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser at the White House from January 20, 1989, until November 6, 1991, for President George H.W. Bush.
		Gates has also served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the American Council on Education, the Board of Directors of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America.
	www.whitehouse.gov /government/gates-bio.html (388 words)

	Robert M. Gates - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Gates, who was confirmed December 6, 2006, by the U.S. Senate in a 95-2 vote [2], was nominated November 8, 2006, by President George W. Bush to replace Donald H. Rumsfeld, who resigned on November 8, 2006, following the 2006 congressional elections.
		Gates, prior to his nomination in November 2006, served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, which was created in March 2006 by Congress.
		"Gates worked for Bush when the latter was CIA director in the mid 1970s (a position to which Bush was appointed by [President Gerald] Ford on the recommendation of Rumsfeld in order to put him out of the running for the VP slot in 1976).
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Robert_M._Gates (1955 words)

	New defense pick already working on Iraq strategy - CNN.com
		The 63-year-old Gates is a member of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan, congressionally-established panel led by former Secretary of State James Baker, a longtime Bush family confidante; and Lee Hamilton, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and vice chairman of the 9/11 commission.
		Gates became dean of the George Bush School of Government at Texas AandM University in 1999 and became the university's president in 2002.
		Gates was a career CIA officer who became the head of the agency's analysis arm in 1982.
	www.cnn.com /2006/POLITICS/11/08/gates.profile/index.html (979 words)

	Robert Gates
		Robert Gates remained as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence until 20th March, 1989, when he became Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from March until August of 1989, and was Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser from August 1989 until November 1991.
		Gates was an early subject of Independent Counsel's investigation, but the investigation of Gates intensified in the spring of 1991 as part of a larger inquiry into the Iran/contra activities of CIA officials.
		Gates consistently testified that he first heard on October 1, 1986, from the national intelligence officer who was closest to the Iran initiative, Charles E. Allen, that proceeds from the Iran arms sales may have been diverted to support the contras.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /MDgatesR.htm (13864 words)

	The Secret World of Robert Gates
		Robert Gates, George W. Bush’s choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary, is a trusted figure within the Bush Family’s inner circle, but there are lingering questions about whether Gates is a trustworthy public official.
		Gates skated past some of these controversies during his 1991 confirmation hearings to be CIA director – and the current Bush administration is seeking to slip Gates through the congressional approval process again, this time by pressing for a quick confirmation by the end of the year, before the new Democratic-controlled Senate is seated.
		Gates also was implicated in a secret operation to funnel military assistance to Iraq in the 1980s, as the Reagan administration played off the two countries battling each other in the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq War.
	www.infowars.com /articles/us/gates_secret_world_of_robert_gates.htm (3114 words)

	NPR : Confirmation Hearings Begin for Robert Gates
		Gates is an old Washington hand with decades of experience in the intelligence community, at the CIA and National Security Council.
		Gates was never accused of being a central player in the operation, in which the U.S. sold weapons to Iran and used the proceeds to fund the contra rebels in Nicaragua.
		Gates, who initially opposed the creation of the DNI job, has already said he now sees the position as a key counterbalance to the Pentagon's intelligence activities.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6581475 (1533 words)

	NPR : Sen. Bayh's Views on Robert Gates
		NPR.org, November 8, 2006 ·; Robert M. Gates, President Bush's choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, is an old ally of the president's father and a veteran of Capitol Hill political wars.
		Gates was said to be the first choice for the new position of national intelligence director.
		Gates also said that if the United States were to open lines of communication with Iran, that would not be sending a mixed message.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6461942 (1051 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Profile: Robert Gates
		Mr Gates is widely respected among both Democrats and Republicans in the Congress, and his appointment was swiftly ratified by the Senate.
		Mr Gates' early career was dogged with controversy, particularly over the Iran-Contra issue, and his first nomination as CIA director was withdrawn by Ronald Reagan in 1987.
		Robert Gates, who was born in Wichita, Kansas, joined the CIA in 1966 after attending William and Mary College and completing graduate work at Indiana University (later receiving a PhD in international relations at Georgetown).
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/6130302.stm (926 words)

	Robert Gates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gates was nominated to become the Director of Central Intelligence (head of the CIA) in early 1987.
		Gates served as a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Oklahoma International Programs Center and a trustee of the endowment fund for the College of William and Mary, his alma mater, which in 1998 conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.
		On December 18, 2006, Gates was sworn in as Secretary of Defense by White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten at a private White House ceremony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Gates (2601 words)

	Robert Gates: Realist or Neo-Con? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The nomination of Robert Gates to replace Don Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense has fueled claims that Gates is part of the realist-pragmatic group of advisors that served Bush the Older and now are being called upon to help Bush the Younger extricate the United States from a quagmire in Iraq.
		Pentagon Nominee Gates to Go Before Senate Panel: Robert Gates, President George W. Bush’s choice to take over the Pentagon as the Iraq war grinds on, goes before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday for what is expected to be quick hearing before likely Senate confirmation later this week.
		Robert Gates’s Former CIA Branch Chief and a CIA Analyst Who Testified Against Him on the Politicization of Intel During Iran-Contra: Robert Gates, President Bush’s nominee to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense is facing his Senate confirmation hearings today.
	gnn.tv /threads/21991/Robert_Gates_Realist_or_Neo_Con (730 words)

	VOA News - Robert Gates Takes Oath as US Defense Secretary
		Robert Gates took his ceremonial oath of office as U.S. defense secretary, administered by Vice-president Dick Cheney, who was defense secretary 15 years ago.
		Robert Gates comes to the job of defense secretary after spending most of the last four decades in government service - starting in an entry-level job at the Central Intelligence Agency, and rising to lead that agency, as well as to serve as deputy national security adviser to President Bush's father.
		Gates said Monday decisions that will be made in the remaining two years of the president's term will determine whether the United States succeeds in Iraq and Afghanistan, or whether what he called "the forces of extremism and chaos" will be on the rise.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-12-18-voa57.cfm (859 words)

	CQ.com
		Gates is one of those longtime Washington insiders whose name is not likely to ring bells outside of the Beltway.
		In From the Shadows, a memoir published in 1996, Gates conceded that his boss, CIA Director William J. Casey, was hostile to anything less than a finding of Soviet support for terrorism, including the attempt on the life of the pope, which turned out to be the act of a deranged Bulgarian.
		Gates developed a reputation for pressuring analysts and managers to shape analytical conclusions to fit administration positions, a fact that led dozens of current and former CIA analysts to oppose his confirmation as CIA Director in 1991,” said Holt, who will likely chair an intelligence subcommittee starting in January.
	www.cq.com /public/20061108_homeland.html (1180 words)

	Robert Gates
		When Robert Gates came to Texas AandM, I was very suspicious of a man who had been head of the CIA and therefore has blood on his hands.
		Gates had a major role in the politicization of intelligence on the Soviet Union, Central America and Southwest Asia.
		President Gates wrote this article in the student newspaper, The Battalion, on Sept 28, to curb the activity.
	www.witherspoonsociety.org /2006/robert_gates.htm (924 words)

	Robert Gates - Erskine & Tulley Partner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert Gates has been a partner of Erskine and Tulley for well over a decade.
		Gates has worked with a variety of clients, including credit retail tenants, individual investors, owners of large and small businesses, property owners, brokers and lenders.
		Gates received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Occidental College and his law degree from the University of Michigan.
	www.erskinetulley.com /xgates.html (512 words)

	Robert M. Gates Profile - washingtonpost.com
		Robert M. Gates is a veteran intelligence operative with close ties to the Bush family.
		Gates was a close adviser to President Ronald Reagan and to George H.W. Bush as they dealt with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, though he was criticized for molding intelligence reports to suit Reagan's hard-line stance toward what had been dubbed the "Evil Empire."
		Gates Is Lauded as a Breaker of Barriers
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110801589.html (550 words)

	AlterNet: Is Robert Gates a Well-Laid Trap?
		According to investigative reporter and author Robert Parry, who tracked the CIA in the 1980s, Gates was involved in ''a special team to push through another pre-cooked paper arguing that the KGB was behind the 1981 wounding of Pope John Paul II,'' despite evidence that CIA analysts knew that the claim was bogus.
		Bush appointed Robert Gates, as Director of the CIA, Richard L. Armitage as a negotiator and mediator in the Middle East.
		Even when his nomination by Bush of Gates was accepted in 1991, he received 31 negative votes, more than all of the votes against all of the CIA directors in previous history.
	www.alternet.org /columnists/story/44314 (2373 words)

	TPMmuckraker: Robert Gates Archives
		Perhaps of greatest interest ot the public, Gates holds a total of between $450,000 and $1 million worth of stock options in companies he advises, including Parker Drilling Company, restaurant group Brinker International, and NACCO Industries.
		Gates also picked up $788,366 as a director or adviser to companies.
		The majors' profiles are all kind (sample headline: "Gates Lauded as Breaker of Barriers"), with nods to criticism of Gates, without really delving into why he twice faced heat from Congress.
	www.tpmmuckraker.com /archives/cats/robert_gates (692 words)

	"@depauw"
		Gates headed all foreign intelligence agencies of the United States and directed the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Gates was awarded the National Security Medal, Presidential Citizens Medal, National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal twice, and the CIA’s highest award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, three times.
		A native of Kansas, Gates received a B.A. degree from the College of William and Mary, master’s degree in history from Indiana University and a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history from Georgetown University.
	www.depauw.edu /@depauw/nov2001/gates.asp (476 words)

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