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The situations are very different. But does anybody remember that Bob Gates was CIA Chief at the end of the first Bush administration and made a big play with Clinton to retain him in the new administration?

As it happened, Clinton didn’t bite and instead picked James Woolsey as his first DCI, arguably the worst appointment he ever made.

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