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US Defence Secretary, 2006 - 2011 - Robert Gates

Are revelations about the Obama White House in Robert Gates' memoirs an act of disloyalty?

In a special edition of Hardtalk recorded in New York City, Stephen Sackur speaks to the former US Defence Secretary Robert Gates. In his newly published memoirs he gives the inside story on arguments and tensions inside the Obama White House – particularly over Afghanistan. He has called his book Duty but are some of his revelations an act of disloyalty?

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