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- Drno
not Bill gates
http://www.consortiumnews.com/ar…not too be a party pooper, but there's something fishy about that Robert gates nomination as defense secretary,
I guess no one knows the man,
sadly i think your president is going to try one last trow and then....
- material-10
this guy is a dick, Is there no one bush can appoint that waasn't involved in iran contra, war mongering, CIA BS, etc.
- OSFA0
material, you're talking about bush. you might want to lower ur expectations...
- mrdobolina0
everyone in this admin is attached to iran contra.
- material-10
I know, nothing new but NPR made material mad this morning when they talked about it.
- mrdobolina0
From Wikipedia:
Gates has been a member of the board of trustees of Fidelity Investments, and on the board of directors of NACCO Industries, Inc., Brinker International, Inc., Parker Drilling Company, Science Applications International Corporation, and VoteHere, a technology company which seeks to provide cryptography and computer software security for the electronic election industry.
Can we please just get a general or someone who has been in the military all of his life to be the sec of defense?
- k0na_an0k0
Intelligence career
While at Indiana University, Gates was recruited to join the Central Intelligence Agency. However, the CIA offered no exemption from the draft during the Vietnam War. Gates spent 1967–69 in the Air Force as an officer in the Strategic Air Command, before joining the CIA full-time as an intelligence analyst. During one posting, at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, he delivered intelligence briefings to Intercontinental Ballistic Missile crews. [7]
Gates left the CIA in 1974 to serve on staff of the National Security Council. He returned to the CIA in late 1979. He was named the Director of the DCI/DDCI Executive Staff in 1981, Deputy Director for Intelligence in 1982, and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from April 18, 1986 to March 20, 1989.
[edit] Director of Central Intelligence
Gates was nominated to become the Director of Central Intelligence (head of the CIA) in early 1987. He withdrew his name after it became clear the Senate would reject the nomination due to controversy about his role in the Iran-Contra affair.
Gates was 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 nominated (for the second time) for the position of Director of Central Intelligence by President George H. W. Bush on May 14, 1991, confirmed by the Senate on November 5, and sworn in on November 6, becoming the only career officer in the CIA's history (as of 2005) to rise from entry-level employee to Director. In addition to questions about Iran-Contra affair, Senate members questioned the nomination because Gates allegedly passed intelligence to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.[8]
Deputy Directors during his tenure were Richard J. Kerr (from November 6, 1991 until March 2, 1992) and Adm. William O. Studeman (from April 9, 1992 through the remainder of Dr. Gates' tenure). He served until 1993.
The final report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, issued on August 4, 2003, said that Gates "was close to many figures who played significant roles in the Iran/contra affair and was in a position to have known of their activities. The evidence developed by Independent Counsel did not warrant indictment...."
Material. Is there anyone in particular you'd like to see take the position?
- Mimio0
They favor him because he's the consummate puppet. He even hands you his strings.
- k0na_an0k0
He's even an Eagle Scout. I think those guys by law can't lie.
And, have to help old ladies cross the street.
Pretty cool.
Who today ISN'T a consummate puppet? Not asking. Just saying.
I'm out.
- mpfree0
Dnro, apparently, you're from Italia, why do you give a flying fuck?
Stick with Silvio Berlusconi. Isn't he corrupt enough for you?
- mrdobolina0
jazx's colors don't run
- mrdobolina0
How about a career military man?
Someone who has commanded troops before? I mean its just common sense.Why mix the CIA with the Armed forces?
- groundst0
everyone in this admin is attached to iran contra.
mrdobolina
(Dec 5 06, 10:17)Oh, God. Here come the conspiracy theories.
haha, mpfree. (on the Berlusconi comment)
- material-10
The former intel officers said with one voice that the “ambitious Gates pressured the CIA’s analytical divison to exaggerate the Soviet menace to fit the ideological perspective of the Reagan administration. Analysts who took a more nuanced view of Soviet power and Moscow’s behavior in the world faced pressure and career reprisals.”
good times!
- mrdobolina0
not literally all of them, groundst.
But many of them.
selected some individuals implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal for high-level posts.[28][29] These include
* Elliott Abrams:[30] under Bush, the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs; in Iran Contra, pleaded guilty on two counts of unlawfully withholding information, pardoned.
* Otto Reich:[31] head of the Office of Public Diplomacy under Reagan.
* John Negroponte:[32] under Bush, the National Intelligence Director.
* Admiral John Poindexter:[33] under Bush, Director of the Information Awareness Office; in Iran Contra found guilty of multiple felony counts for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence, convictions reversed.
* Robert Gates: [34] under Bush, nominated on November 8, 2006 as the new Secretary of Defense to replace the resigning Donald Rumsfeld; he has not yet been confirmed. Served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1991–1993 under George H.W. Bush. In Iran Contra he was Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.
* Charles E. Allen: [35] under Bush, appointed in August 2005 to be chief intelligence officer at the Department of Homeland Security. Allen's position at DHS was not subject to Senate confirmation. Prior to the DHS appointment, Allen had worked 47 years at the CIA. Director of Central Intelligence William Webster formally reprimanded Allen for failing to fully comply with the DCI's request for full cooperation in the agency's internal Iran-Contra scandal investigation.
- k0na_an0k0
You know who should be appointed? Someone with military experience.
Like
William S. Cohen
Jan 24, 1997 - Jan 20, 2001
Wait. He never was in the military. Only the Senate and Law.Ok. How about
William J. Perry
Feb 3, 1994 - Jan 23, 1997
Wait. He wasn't in the military either. Never served.Got one.
Les Aspin
Jan 21, 1993 - Feb 3, 1994
He served in the military as an officer.... for three years.Btw. All above appointed by Clinton.
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT. here.
http://www.defenselink.mil/speci…History of the Defense Secretaries.
See how many were career military guys.
Anyways. At least this guy can admit we aren't winning the war in Iraq. I wonder who pulled that string and got him to say that?
- mrdobolina0
just because it hasnt happened does not mean that it makes sense, korny.
- mrdobolina0
funny how you went right to clinton btw.
- Mimio0
Bush said the same thing in a press release yesterday. Go figure. "Stay the course" all through the elections then change your tune.
- k0na_an0k0
I hear ya Mimio.