Def. Sec. Gates retires at Pentagon in Virginia
U.S. President Barack Obama participates in Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' Armed Forces Farewell Ceremony on the Pentagon River Parade Field in Arlington, Virginia, on June 30, 2011. Former CIA Director Leon E. Panetta will become the 23rd Secretary of Defense, replacing Gates on July 1. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
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The controversy over his administration's initial response to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is a "sideshow," President Obama said Monday.
Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said critics of the lack of response to the attack on the Libyan consulate had a "cartoonish" view of the military.
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Suddenly drones are everywhere -- not in the skies over the United States, as they will be in their thousands in a few years, and not just hovering over foreign battlefields to strike terror in the heart of al-Qaida -- but as the focus of debate in the U.S. Congress and elsewhere.
Last year, the Obama administration released its latest strategic guidance for the Pentagon. The lead headline read "U.S. pivots to Asia."
A former defense secretary and several lawmakers said a U.S. president should not be empowered to order drone strikes on U.S. citizens without an outside check.
A group of former U.S. secretaries of state and defense sent a letter to the U.S. Senate endorsing former Sen. Chuck Hagel as the next defense secretary.
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