Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was asked point blank about the location of Osama bin Laden, and his answer was far from encouraging. "Well, we don ...

The following is the full transcript of an interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a portion of which aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 18, 2025.

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Former CIA director Robert M. Gates was on “Face the Nation” last month and demonstrated that there has never been a better truckler in the federal bureaucracy over the past four decades ...

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan that he isn't sure if you can judge Russian President Vladimir Putin's intentions in a face-to-face meeting.

Set your countdown clocks to 2011, when Robert Gates, Defense Secretary to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, plans to step down. “It would be a mistake to wait until January 2012,” he tells ...

Dr. Gates (at right with DePauw President Robert G. Bottoms), who served as director of the CIA under President George H. W. Bush from 1991-93 and spent nearly twenty seven years as an intelligence ...

After former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Thursday appeared on Morning Joe and made it a point to slam the foreign policy blunders of GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump, the stage was ...

Many Americans are mad as hell at our political leaders — both Republican and Democrat — and are giving voice to their anger through the likes of Donald Trump and ...