I don’t know anyone more wired about what’s going on in the foreign policy and national security world than Chris Nelson of the Nelson Report, a DC insider sheet on foreign & defense policy and international trade. And in tonight’s edition he seems quite confident that Gates is staying on at the Pentagon “well into next year, if not also through completion of the pivot from Iraq to Afghanistan/Pakistan.”
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