The Secret World of Robert Gates

[Doremus Jessup]

Now that Rummy is on the way out, it should be time to look at his successor.

http://consortiumnews.com/2006/110906.html

In 1991, despite doubts about Gates’s honesty over Iran-Contra and other scandals, the career intelligence officer brushed aside accusations that he played secret roles in arming both sides of the Iran-Iraq War. Since then, however, documents have surfaced that raise new questions about Gates’s sweeping denials.


For instance, the Russian government sent an intelligence report to a House investigative task force in early 1993 stating that Gates participated in secret contacts with Iranian officials in 1980 to delay release of 52 U.S. hostages then held in Iran, a move to benefit the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

It seems like more of the same, I guess will see how he does in his new post.:2wave:

 

[Stinger]

Now that Rummy is on the way out, it should be time to look at his successor.

http://consortiumnews.com/2006/110906.html



It seems like more of the same, I guess will see how he does in his new post.:2wave:

Why do you people think that people involved in our most secret foriegn policies intitiatives are just going to give the details in public whenever they are asked? YES we played both sides in the Iran/Iraq war, of course we did, of course we denied at the time and afterwards, now most of that is know and doesn't have to be kept secret anymore. And as far as the second that absurd claim was debunked long ago.

So now that Rummy is out of the way let the attacks on Gates begin I see.

 

[hipsterdufus]

Why do you people think that people involved in our most secret foriegn policies intitiatives are just going to give the details in public whenever they are asked? YES we played both sides in the Iran/Iraq war, of course we did, of course we denied at the time and afterwards, now most of that is know and doesn't have to be kept secret anymore. And as far as the second that absurd claim was debunked long ago.

So now that Rummy is out of the way let the attacks on Gates begin I see.

I've heard both good and bad reviews on Gates. I'm ceretainly willing to give Gates the benefit of the doubt and listen to what he has to say, or not say, at his confirmation hearing.

 

[wonder cow]

Gates participated in secret contacts with Iranian officials in 1980 to delay release of 52 U.S. hostages then held in Iran

Sounds far fetched to me. And I have never heard of consortiumnews. :thinking