Robert Gates

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  • Gates in Baghdad

    The defense secretary makes a surprise visit to the area that has come to define his new employer.
    By Alex Koppelman December 20, 2006

  • The waiting game

    Bush says a decision on Iraq must await the swearing in of Bob Gates. So why hasn't it happened yet?
    By Tim Grieve December 14, 2006

  • Rumsfeld's Iraq regret: Calling the war a "war on terror"

    The outgoing defense secretary says he has no advice for his successor.
    By Tim Grieve December 12, 2006

  • Colbert finds job for Rumsfeld

    Then laments about "boring" Gates' confirmation.
    By David Puner December 6, 2006

  • "How much longer do we have to get shot at or blown up?"

    In Ramadi, U.S. troops want a change.
    By Tim Grieve December 6, 2006

  • "There is no magic formula"

    A grave assessment from the Iraq Study Group.
    By Tim Grieve December 6, 2006

  • The un-Rumsfeld

    Robert Gates wowed senators by admitting the U.S. invaded Iraq without enough troops and isn't winning the war. But he left details of what he'd do instead for another day.
    By Michael Scherer December 6, 2006

  • Gates: A "clarification" on Iraq

    After saying earlier that the United States is not winning, Bush's nominee for defense secretary says U.S. troops are winning the battles they fight.
    By Tim Grieve December 5, 2006

  • Gates: The U.S. isn't winning in Iraq

    Bush's defense secretary nominee says that the next "year or two" will make all the difference.
    By Tim Grieve December 5, 2006

  • A vote for more cooked intelligence?

    Little-known documents link Rumsfeld replacement Robert Gates with the kind of trumped-up reports that unleashed the Iraq war.
    By Mark Benjamin December 4, 2006

  • Fall of the house of kitsch

    Like Haggard and other GOP cultural warriors, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were empty historical characters -- faux "war heroes" who trafficked in style over substance.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 8, 2006

  • Newsreal: "I wanted to shoot the CIA director"

    In letters to Salon's correspondent, Pakistani terrorist Mir Aimal Kasi -- who faces the death penalty for killing two CIA employees -- explains why he did it, recounts his life on the lam and says his only regret is that he didn't kill higher-ranking CIA officials.
    By Jeff Stein January 22, 1998
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