Gates v Rumsfeld

LAT reporter Julian Barnes interprets a remark by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates as criticism of his predecessor. Without quoting him, Barnes says that Gates argued that a president's national security team ought to get along and suggested that Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell didn't always. Implicitly, Barnes points the finger at Rumsfeld but Powell was an outsider within the Bush administration. His ideas and objectives didn't always dovetail with those of the administration.