Just a guess, but Gates didn’t resign because he felt his responsibility to the Country and thought he it best to work from within.
It was a gutsy move to publish this book with O still in office. Leads me to believe that the situation was worse than what he wrote.
The next few weeks he will be on the TV shows defending Obama-count on it.
Agreed.
Your response to Ken is a likely possibility, OzD
And your observation re. ‘far worse’... I definitely DON’T get the feeling Gates is doing it now for $, like somebody suggested earlier in this thread... it IS gutsy to do it now, and imho there is some other reason than $ he felt a sense of urgency to speak about this vile regime