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Gates spoke publicly to a few media outlets on Tuesday for the first time since the arrest, framing his experience as part of a "racial narrative" in a biased criminal justice system and reprimanding the police officer for having a "broad imagination" in filing his report. Police accounts say that...
Not everyone reflecting on the incident immediately concurred that the arrest exemplified on-going societal prejudices. Gates' lawyer, law school professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., has declined to say whether he believes the incident was racially motivated, and Cambridge police representatives carefully kept to their prepared statement, which said that...
Read "Gates Takes Knife to Pentagon Budget."
Despite a last-minute blitz by supporters of the F-22 fighter to keep building more of the $350 million planes, the Senate voted 58 to 40 on Tuesday to halt its production. The action, backed by a veto threat from President Obama, is a major victory for Defense Secretary...
The purchase of more F-22s (beyond the 187 already acquired) was opposed by Obama, Gates, the Air Force leadership and the Senate's top military experts. That forced the F-22's backers to rely on less influential supporters - and reasons - to buy more planes: arguments from second-tier...