Robert Gates, the former U.S. defense secretary and CIA director, said the perquisites of power can warp the judgment of high-ranking officials.
“There is something about a sense of entitlement and of having great power that skews people’s judgment,” Gates said today at a conference in Chicago, while specifying he wouldn’t talk about the downfall of retired Army General David Petraeus, who also served as head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
