Here are more examples of why the blogs are so important. One extends the readership of another, enlarging the conversation and making us all better informed.

Wayne Madsen Reports has good information of Robert Gates dated November 9, 2006. You will have to scroll way down to get to it, passed the squirmy pic of Rush Limbaugh and just under the photo of the new senator from Virginia. For a less complicated path to the same story, visit Carbon Paper, Out With The Old Boss Same As The Old Boss, and also from there visit the link commenter Steven Rix provides to his fine blog, Pensees sur les USA, and his in-depth analysis: Rumsfeld’s Firing…

This excerpt from the original Madsen post:

“Gates obfuscation on Iran-Contra continues to this day. As President of Texas A&M University, Gates has been the host for the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library. In the bowels of the library are presidential papers that could shine a bright light on the Iran-Contra scandal. However, in November 2001, George W. Bush signed an executive order that upended the 1978 Presidential Records Act and permits the Bush Iran-Contra papers to be kept secret in perpetuity. The executive order also affects 60,000 pages of papers from the Reagan Presidential Library that include details of then-Vice President George H. W. Bush’s role in Iran-Contra. Robert Gates has always been a trusted consigliore for the Bush family. At the Pentagon, he will undoubtedly use his two years to clean up for Dubya and suppress incriminating information on the Iraq debacle — all in a continuing effort to protect the Bush family legacy. His nomination should be rejected.”