Gates 'appalled' at leaks on Afghanistan, shooting case

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Responding to a flurry of media reports about troop numbers in Afghanistan and the killing of 13 people at a Texas military base, the normally reserved Gates said in an unusually feisty tone that it "doesn't serve the country" and was not in the military's interest.

He said the leaks were coming from different government sources but some were coming from his own department, adding that if someone was found leaking from the Pentagon "that would probably be a career ender."

Details of President Barack Obama's deliberations with top commanders about the deployment of as many as 40,000 troops to Afghanistan have regularly appeared in newspapers in recent weeks.

Gates said the administration was now trying to balance the need to show a commitment to Afghanistan at the same time as conveying to the Kabul government that the American presence was not indefinite.

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DEAR SECY GATES, THE PENTAGON IS USING LEAKS. CAN YOU CONTROL THEM

[sattahipdeep]

1. Time for Mueller to go

The FBI said it turned over the information to the Army, but Defense Department officials today denied that.

A former counterterrorism official said the information about Hasan's communications with the imam should have been shared with the military unless the FBI specifically forbade it.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6998044&mesg_id=6998044

[sattahipdeep]

2. "Everybody ought to shut up" he said.

Time for Gates to go. The former CIA chief.