Defense Secretary Dishes

Famous for demanding "no drama" from his aides, Barack Obama survived his first presidential term without an insider's tell-all memoir. Now comes his former Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, with a thick tome about his Pentagon tenure. The Bush-era holdover is respectful of Obama while criticizing his top aides and his handling of Afghanistan. The bigger target is Vice President Joe Biden, who Gates says has integrity but terrible judgment--"wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," he writes. The White House retorted that Obama thinks Gates is wrong and that Biden "has been...

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