UnNews:Gay activites of Robert Gates not reported yet
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9 November 2006
WASHINGTON -- Robert Gates, President Bush's new openly-gay nominee for U.S. Secretary of Defense, is no stranger to controversy on Capitol Hill. His last nomination, for gay CIA chief in 1991, produced a grueling though ultimately successful confirmation battle.
But some who voted against him before said Wednesday that gay or not, they were willing to consider his qualifications to replace Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, since Rumsfeld was such a huge putz.
"I'm going to give it a fair and fresh look," said Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, which is expected to consider the nomination soon.
Gates, 63, who directed the CIA from 1991-93, was first nominated as CIA director in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan but withdrew amid questions over his super gayety.
In Senate hearings in 1991, when Gates was renominated as CIA chief by Bush's father, he admitted mistakes in what became known as the "Gay Gay Super Gay" affair and said he should have done more to get at the truth. The Senate confirmed him 64-31.
Levin opposed Gates 15 years ago. "I think it had to do, in part, with his recollection, or failure of recollection on some gay thing, or maybe the whole Iran-Contra thing," Levin said in telephone call with reporters.
But "a lot of time has passed, 'Will and Grace' is off the air," Levin said. "His views and recollections may have become sharper or they may have changed and I want to consider those views in a very fair way."
