Gates Confirmation on Fast-Track? Not So Fast ...
"'... 'This is not a guy who’s ever been accused of speaking truth to power. If you’re looking for somebody who’s going to change Iraq policy, he’s hardly the guy to do it. The only policy he’s going to consider is what is acceptable to the White House ...' Gates, as deputy CIA director, consistently politicized intelligence-community reports about Iran, Nicaragua and Afghanistan in order to cater to the hard-line anti-Soviet policies of the Reagan White House. Gates’s role as deputy CIA director 'was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence on all of these issues ... It was the same kind of manufacturing of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war...'"