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Obama Sending Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA

WASHINGTON -- In a major national security reshuffle, President Barack Obama is sending CIA Director Leon Panetta to the Pentagon to replace Robert Gates, a widely praised Bush holdover, and replacing Panetta at the spy agency with Gen. David Petraeus, the high-profile commander of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Obama's...

The 'Shake-Up' in US Defense and Intelligence [VIDEO]

Obama Reportedly to Make Major National Security Leadership Changes

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans this week to name CIA Director Leon Panetta to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, would take the CIA chief's job in a major shuffle of the nation's top national security leadership, administration and other sources...

Obama Approves Use of Armed Drone Aircraft in Libya

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed drones in Libya, authorizing U.S. airstrikes on ground forces for the first time since America turned over control of the operation to NATO on April 4. It also is the first time that drones will be used for airstrikes since the conflict began on March 19,...

Are US, Other Allies Ignoring Saudi Arabia's Political Prisoners?

The U.S. and European Union are ignoring the fact that Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 160 political dissidents in just two months, Human Rights Watch said in a scathing report today. More than 160 "peaceful" dissidents have been arrested in the oil-rich kingdom since February, as the so-called "Arab Spring" of revolt...

Robert Gates News From the Web

05/30/12 McConnell Intelligence Center named after Robert Gates Source: CBS - KWCH Eyewitness News 12 - Wichita KS The Kansas National Guard's 184th Intelligence Wing has dedicated its Intelligence Complex to the former U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert M. Gates.
05/30/12 McConnell AFB names Intel Ctr. for Fmr Def. Sec.... Source: CBS - KWCH Eyewitness News 12 - Wichita KS Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is visiting Wichita's McConnell Air Force Base as leaders there name a new intelligence complex after him.
05/30/12 National Security and International Exchange Source: Inside Higher Ed Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates delivered a rousing oration in favor of international education and exchange Tuesday.
05/24/12 New word of extra White House help on OBL film Source: The How-To Travel Guru - CBS News It's no surprise that the Obama administration would enthusiastically welcome a movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
05/23/12 Ben Dimiero: "Are These Robert Gates's Pants?" Source: County Fair In a new article today at American Thinker , graphic artist Mara Zebest -- who is identified as working "closely" with Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Cold Case Posse "in providing evidence on Obama's forged birth certificate" -- highlights some supposed anomalies in a Situation Room photo from the day of the bin Laden raid in order to prove... something.

Background on Robert Gates

Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is the 24th Chancellor of the College of William and Mary and a retired civil servant and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W.

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