Gates To Naval Academy Grads: Press and Congress Are Not The Enemy

[Rose Siding]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates encouraged the graduating U.S. Naval Academy class of 2007 on Friday "to remember the importance of two pillars of our freedom under the Constitution: the Congress and the press.".....

Gates told the freshly minted Naval officers that they will have the responsibility to inform people below them that the military "must be nonpolitical" and recognize the obligation to truthfully report to Congress, "especially when it involves admitting mistakes or problems."

"The same is true with the press, in my view a critically important guarantor of our freedom," Gates said....."When it identifies a problem, as at Walter Reed, the response of senior leaders should be to find out if the allegations are true, as they were at Walter Reed, and if so, say so," Gates said. "And then act to remedy the problem. If untrue, then be able to document that fact."

Gates said the Founding Fathers wisely understood that the Congress, a free press and a nonpolitical military are needed in a free country.

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Does not compute....

[Captain Hilts]

2. Gates has been doing a very good job. nt

[TwilightGardener]

3. He still has to tote water, but he's competent, and I think he often tries

to do the right thing. I have some respect for him.

[Benhurst]

4. If he keeps talking like that, he'd better have a copy of his curriculum vitae typed up

and stay out of small planes.

[madrchsod]

5. cheney pulls his hitler routine

and gates tells the kids they serve the people. only in america

[Demeter]

6. If Only We Had an Independent Congress and a Free Press!

Let's make Bob Gate's dream come true! He'll be soooo upset if we do!