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Gates: US to do its part to slow Afghan corruption
Nov 20th, 2009 - AOL News
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government...Probe reveals more on Hasan; e-mails to cleric
Nov 20th, 2009 - NECN
(NECN/ABC) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates pulled two former service chiefs out of retirement to get to the bottom of the Fort Hood massacre.
At the same time, Congress held its first hearing into the shootings -- without White House cooperation.Pentagon looking for Fort Hood management lapses
Nov 20th, 2009 - Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Thursday it will scour its procedures for identifying volatile soldiers hidden in the ranks following the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks.
Gates: We must identify potential military threats
Nov 20th, 2009 - Dallasnews
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered all branches of the military Thursday to seek better ways of "identifying service members who could potentially pose credible threats to others.Pentagon launches new probe of Fort Hood shootings
Nov 19th, 2009 - MiamiHerald
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced Thursday that he's appointed two former heads of the Army and the Navy to review the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas...
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Robert Gates from WikiPedia:
Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18, 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W. Bush as Director of Central Intelligence. Before he joined the CIA, he was an officer in the United States Air Force. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University and was a member of several corporate boards. Gates also served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee Hamilton, that has studied the Iraq War. He was also the first pick to serve as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security when it was created following the September 11 attacks, but he declined the appointment in order to remain President of Texas A&M University.
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