No, Bob Gates' revelations won't 'haunt' Hillary in 2016

Prepare for the pseudo-controversy to fizzle in 3... 2... 1...

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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has a new memoir coming out in which he alleges, among other things, that Hillary Clinton opposed a 2007 troop surge in Iraq for political reasons. "Hillary told the president that her opposition to the surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary," Gates wrote.

That's hardly a flattering tidbit about the former senator and secretary of state. And some pundits are (wrongly) going so far as to say this is a potentially dire threat to Clinton's future electoral viability.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.