WarGates

Relax. Put your feet up. Let your mind drift back, into the past. Back before 2001. Before Clinton. Before Bush senior. Back to Vietnam, before we lost that oh-so-telling an imperial punic police-action, before our own intelligence network conspired to thwart a US President's attempts to rescue US Citizens from revolutionary socialist Muslims who threatened to undue years of improper diet and deliberate intellectual hobbling by exposing the hapless Americans to Persian cooking in a roundtable/symposium atmosphere.

There, near the black coils of dull paranoia that are the acting arms of our intelligence apparatus, was (and is) Robert M Gates, Man of Action™. Always. As if born to be our Commissar, Herr Gates steps lightly back and forth over the line that separates private enterprise from being Amerikkkha's Numba One Spook.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates

From der WikiPedia:

"Gates then pursued a Master's degree in History from Indiana University in 1966. Finally, he completed his doctorate in Russian and Soviet history from Georgetown University in 1974. The title of his Georgetown doctoral dissertation is "Soviet Sinology: An Untapped Source for Kremlin Views and Disputes Relating to Contemporary Events in China" and is available from University Microfilms International as document number 7421652. He received an L.H.D. (Doctor of Humane Letters) from William & Mary in 1998.

While at Indiana University, Gates was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency and joined the agency in 1966. On 4 January 1967, he was conscripted and commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. From 1967 to 1969, he was assigned to the Strategic Air Command as an intelligence officer which included a stint at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, where he delivered intelligence briefings to Intercontinental Ballistic Missile crews. After fulfilling his military obligation, he rejoined the CIA.

Gates left the CIA in 1974 to serve on the staff of the National Security Council. He returned to the CIA in late 1979, serving briefly as the director of the Strategic Evaluation Center, Office of Strategic Research. He was named the Director of the DCI/DDCI Executive Staff in 1981, Deputy Director for Intelligence in 1982, and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from April 18, 1986 to March 20, 1989."

Lolz, multiple Gates rule us!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0509/Whoops_Obama_says_SecDef_Wil...

Surprize Surprize:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MDgatesR.htm

"In 1982 Gates was appointed Deputy Director for Intelligence. Four years later he was promoted to the post of Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, under William J. Casey. In May 1986 Gene Wheaton told Casey about what he knew about the Iran-Contra operation. Casey refused to take any action, claiming that the agency or the government were not involved in what later became known as Irangate."

So the fact that Mssr Obama has seen fit to carry on with Gates in the SurgeMaster™ position isn't really as much of a tradition shattering move as one might think given our new Chief's party-of- opposition status. Even NPR Snuggles in with the cozy, koala-like High Waterboarder and Architecht of the SOA Outreach Administration.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6457302

So we tripped over to Muckety:

http://news.muckety.com/

...'n' wound up baiting the question by making a "Gates Clan Re-Union Union" map with Gates, Gates and moar Gates:

http://www.muckety.com/B9CDB3614FD1F826AE50D67D0D489BEE.map

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[DEATHINKING]

Gates of Hell !

[BobForehead]

He's the Secretary of Brimstone!

[DecentralizedByGuilt]

"if this is not evil, than evil has no meaning" -Bush jr on Saddam, but i say he secretly meant wargate! well done, lovin this styley =)

[BobForehead]

thnx T'(D')! i decided not to sweat the relational maps' legibility this time... not like anybody would read 'em anyway; and if someone did want to, they'd just go to Muckety and play with the map there... but yeah. Gates is the kind of guy Cheney can talk to, spawn-to-spawn. That's all fucked up. I keep waiting for them to dredge Meese or Caspar back up while they're being retro '80's autocrats.

[BobForehead]

TiVo! AaA! Bee-eye NGO!

[ali0tis]

IO! PAN! E I E I O!

[BobForehead]

Robert M had a finger in everything during Reagan/Bush, so it's possible... he could be the Source of all bad acronyms for the Neocons. Wonder if he's the one that came up with IAO?

[ali0tis]

wonder if there's any cnxn 2 Gifted & Talented Education (G.A.T.E. in the 80s). Thanks for volunteering 2b the muckety Gatekeeper providing the Teacher's Key 4 ALL! 2c!