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June 19th, 2011

Gates: U.S. in direct talks with Taliban

In an interview that aired today on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley, outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. role in Libya, the threat of al Qaeda and more.

Links to the CNN Political Ticker, embeddable video on CNN.com and a transcript are after the jump.

CNN POLITICAL TICKER:

Secretary Gates: U.S. ENAGAGED IN ‘PRELIMINARY’ PEACE TALKS WITH THE TALIBAN

Secretary Gates looks ahead in Iraq

Gates grapples with ‘wars of choice’

EMBEDDABLE VIDEO:

U.S. in direct talks with Taliban

Robert Gates: the endgame in Afghanistan

Gates: ‘I think Gadhafi will… fall’

Robert Gates on defense spending

A full transcript of the interview can be found here.