Former Secretary of Defense under George Bush and Barack Obama Robert Gates feels "double crossed" by Obama over his promise not to gut the defense budget. The Hill: When asked by Fox whether Obama kept to his word, Gates replied, “Well I think that began to fray. ‘Fray’ may be too gentle a word.” According to the report, Gates was told to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the defense budget after already having slashed it. “I guess I’d have to say I felt double-crossed,” Gates said. “After all those years in Washington, I was naïve.” The former defense secretary added that he advised Obama to slow the cuts to the military because it would endanger U.S. troops. “I think he acknowledged that what I was pitching at a minimum was, ‘The world doesn’t seem to be getting better. Before you head down a path of deep cuts in defense, why don’t you take it kind of slow,’...(Read Full Post)