Robert Gates: A criminal from the Iran/Contra days

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08334006.htm

FACTBOX-Five facts on Robert Gates

08 Nov 2006 18:48:30 GMT
Source: Reuters



<snip>* Recently has been deeply involved in bipartisan discussions on Iraq as member of Iraq Study Group headed by former Secretary of State James Baker. The group is expected by the end of the year to issue alternative ideas for a way forward in Iraq.

* First nominated as CIA director in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan but withdrew amid questions over his and the CIA's role in the secret sales of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to Nicaragua's contra rebels. In hearings in 1991 Gates admitted mistakes and said he should have done more to get at the truth.

* Had controversial confirmation hearings for CIA director including charges he hid the truth about Iran-Contra affair from Congress when that scandal was breaking.

[xchrom]

1. i remember him.

so then did poppy recommend this guy -- or james baker?

[Graybeard]

2. Can't they find anyone to serve...

...in the *administration who is not drenched in slime? BCCI ,
Iran-Contra on and on...

[Solly Mack]

3. excellent info!!

recommended

[NNN0LHI]

4. Dems have no excuse to have to confirm scum like this any more

Bush should have come to the Dems for a recommendation. Not his daddy.

Don

[omega minimo]

5. seconded

[H2O Man]

7. Yep.

He's not a choice that represents progress.

[omega minimo]

9. He's a choice that represents Year 26 of the Reagan Era

:thumbsdown:

[tk2kewl]

6. What's the deal? Is he being nominated for Defense Sec?

:shrug:

[NoAmericanTaliban]

8. That is why Gates is being announced now with a GOP

dominated Senate. Dems need to not confirm this retread from the Bush I days.

[spanone]

10. He's sounds like the perfect offering from this den of theives.

I think Congress will have to demand a higher quality of human being from the shrub.

[BR_Parkway]

11. Filibuster him!!!! Go on Harry, what's Bill gonna do? Go Nuclear?

Wouldn't that be the funniest damn thing? Go on, they're begging you to spend a little of our new political capital - do it!

[dalloway]

12. Bush installs his own criminal, at least one loyal to him and not Cheney

[indepat]

13. Fits right in with this cabal

[hippywife]

14. A little more info:

http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=5732

[lyonn]

15. Sounds like we need Ray McGovern to hit the media

with his truth telling, Again. That's all we need is someone like Gates acting like he knows how to run the war. Will this crap ever end?