Talk Radio News Service asks Jack Rice about Bob Gates’s involvement with Iran Contra and some of the controversy surrounding him.
Rice says that Gates was nominated to be the CIA director in the 1970s but pulled his nomination because so many people in the Senate questioned whether he was being honest. There may be lingering questions on Gates’s credibility and whether or not he is willing to tell the truth to power. (0:55)
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November 9, 2006
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