News about Robert Gates

President Biden took notes and saved important memos that recalled his fight against sending tens of thousands of Americans into Afghanistan. Special Counsel Robert Hur gave a lengthy account of his appointment, including his "motive" for hanging onto records that should not have been posted at the National Archives. Biden writes daily in notebooks and on notecards about his pressure campaign leading up to the 2009 vote. For the first time, the paper includes a portion of their content.

According to DailyMail.com, a former Marine at a Defense intelligence service knew of software issues and vulnerabilities in the F-35 since 2019, but that the Pentagon has not reported the errors. Dan Grazier suggested that the missing F-35 most likely suffered a malfunction, but a cyberattack is also a possibility. The pilot was ejected during a training session and was discovered 28 hours later, and the $145 million jet went missing for hours over South Carolina. The software is a "back door to hackers," Grazier said, because it is a large information network connected to the wider internet that can be accessed with the correct tools.

The mission, which is currently off the coast of South Carolina, has lasted days, and comes as Beijing and Washington's relations have rapidly deteriorated after the downing of the high-altitude plane on Saturday. A muthibious warship, as well as several divers and underwater robots, had been sent to survey a specific'square mile' of ocean, where the balloon's remains were believed to be located, according to defense officials earlier this week. sailors with the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group of Navy seen pulling out the wreckage from the open ocean in photos published Tuesday morning. Beijing, on the other hand, insists that the unconfirmed craft was used for "meteorological purposes" and has spoken out in defiance of its demise.