Former Obama secretary of defense Robert Gates wasn't sure President Obama ever deserved to get a Nobel Peace Prize. (Next Question podcast, July 17) ...

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 ...

Paul Manafort’s former right-hand man, Rick Gates, is somehwere in a private room with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, doing his Minnie Ripperton ...

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says Trump administration needs to take action ‘sooner rather than later’ on Saudi Arabia. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who served under ...

Gates said that the U.S. may face even greater danger from other countries, such as China, whose “defense build-up has been far smarter than that of the old Soviet Union,” he said.

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 ...

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2011— -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Libya did not pose a threat to the United States before the U.S. began its military campaign against the North ...

Watch Margaret Brennan's full interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a portion of which aired on Sunday, May 18, 2025, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." ...

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 ...

I t was never going to be easy for Obama to watch Robert Gates walk out of the Pentagon and back into private life. Over two and a half years, Gates has provided impenetrable political air cover ...

Secretaries Gates and Clinton preview this week's Washington nuclear summit. WASHINGTON, April 11, 2010— -- World leaders from 47 countries are descending on Washington this week for an ...

Robert Gates. December 3, 2001, Greencastle, Ind. - Despite the American military's successes in overtaking the Taliban in Afghanistan, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), ...