----- From: brian305 Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:19 PM Subject: Obama No Longer Even Pretending "Change" is Coming
Official: Gates to stay at Pentagon CHICAGO (AP) â?" President-elect Barack Obama will keep Defense Secretary Robert Gates in that job for at least a year, according to an official familiar the two men's discussions. Obama is expected to announce the selection of Gates and other members of a national security brain trust next week. Gates has served as President George W. Bush's defense chief for two years. The moderate Republican with long-standing ties to the Bush family would fulfill an Obama pledge to include a Republican in his Cabinet. Retaining Gates provides stability for a stretched military fighting two wars during the turbulent changeover in administrations. Gates once said it was inconceivable that he would stay on past the close of Bush's term on Jan. 20. But the 65-year-old former spymaster had recently turned mum in public on the circumstances under which he would stay, even briefly, in an Obama administration. Keeping Gates might afford Obama a sort of extended transition, in which critical military issues are left in trusted hands while Obama focuses most intensely on the financial crisis. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081125/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_gates Obama, Ask the Kremlin about Gates By Robert Parry November 25, 2008 Excerpt: Now, according to press reports, President-elect Barack Obama intends to keep Gates on as a gesture of bipartisanship and continuity. Before that happens, however, Obama might want to finish the investigation that Lee Hamilton swept under the rug 16 years ago, at least ask the Kremlin what exactly its evidence is about Gatesâ?Ts role in the Republican-Iranian contacts in 1980, the controversy known as the â?oOctober Surpriseâ? case. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/112508.html ####### Robert Gates, Lockerbie, October Surprise, Iran-Contra http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2008/11/robert-gates-lockerbie-october-surprise.html The Vincennes and Lockerbie and Heroin http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2008/11/vincennes-and-lockerbie-and-heroin.html ------------------------------------ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
