After Bin Laden Raid, Gates Told White House To Shut The F**K Up

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After the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan gave reporters a blow-by-blow account of the operation. But as David Sanger reports in his new book “Confront and Conceal,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Brennan that he had a “new strategic communications approach to recommend.”

The approach? “Shut the fuck up,” Gates said.

Via ABC News.

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