On Journalistic Ethics: Stalking an Oxymoron?

I most likely would not be telling this story if former SecDef Robert Gates hadn’t instructed it first, in his memoirs. It occurred in 2008. Barack Obama was operating for President. In a late summer-I feel-interview, I requested Obama if he would maintain Gates as SecDef if he received. Obama mentioned he would. Gates was a person I admired immensely: not like his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld, he actually felt the conflict in Iraq in his intestine. He’d introduced David Petraeus in to handle it and Petraeus was having an influence. (I had opposed the conflict, however believed that Colin Powell’s Pottery Barn Rule-you break it, you repair it-applied. We…



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