It presents a significantly more negative picture of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than Gates’ statements in office led anyone to expect. And it presents an interesting contrast with Gates’s ...

The first day of coverage of former Robert Gates’ book on his years running the Pentagon have focused largely on the strains between him and President Barack Obama’s White House. That should come as ...

MSNBC’s foreign policy maven, Andrea Mitchell, calls it a “bombshell,” and Tuesday’s headline, from Robert Gates’ own Wall Street Journal op-ed, touts the former defense secretary’s “quiet fury.” ...

Obama secretary of defense Robert Gates says Obama didn't deserve Nobel Prize when he got it Former Obama secretary of defense Robert Gates wasn't sure President Obama ever deserved to get a Nobel ...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates writes in his new memoir that President Barack Obama was concerned his national security advisers might later write memoirs — much to Gates’ offense. Duty: ...

Here’s the New York Times’ take on the new book by former Obama (and Bush) Defense Secretary Robert Gates: “After ordering a troop increase in Afghanistan, President Obama eventually lost faith in the ...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday blasted the “gimmick” congressional leaders used to keep Pentagon spending from falling under mandatory budget caps, but broke with his successor by ...

In a long and surprisingly frank interview with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates talked about his... Gates: Obama Made Solid Decisions, But Was Swayed By ...

At outgoing defense secretary Robert Gates' Pentagon farewell ceremony, President Obama praised him as one if the best defense secretaries this nation has seen. He honored Gates with the Medal of ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - When U.S. President-elect Barack Obama met Defense Secretary Robert Gates to discuss keeping him at the Pentagon, the encounter had a whiff of Gates' former life as a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's decision to ask Robert Gates to stay as U.S. defense secretary has been widely praised but it may lead to at least a few awkward moments for both ...