No. He pretty well flayed her as well. Bigtime.
Gates offers a glowing appraisal of Clinton, who he says is “smart, idealistic but pragmatic, tough-minded, indefatigable, funny, a very valuable colleague, and a superb representative of the United States all over the world,” but the president comes in for harsher criticism.
Gates is an idiot. If he had integrity, he would have quit. But based on some classified stuff that went on that I knew about, he was a lying, self-serving jerk while SecDef. Now we know he was a lying, self-serving SecDef with ego but no balls.