Defense Secretary Robert Gates is taking the unprecedented step of insisting that all officials involved in revising the fiscal year 2010 budget proposal sign non-disclosure agreements, a move designed to curtail unauthorized leaks of information about the "hard choices" he says are required to craft the spending plan. Gates, according to defense officials, signed the first such pledge on Feb. 13 at a high-level meeting with the top brass and newly appointed Obama administration Pentagon officials. Following his lead, everyone...
