Perhaps you've caught some of the concern with Robert Gates's nomination s the next Secretary of Defense. Larry Johnson had stories about him pressuring analysts during the Cold War-era to find everything as "Communist." And CQ published an article yesterday suggesting that he's no stranger to using accusations of "terrorism" for strategic purposes.

Well, that's not all of it. It looks like Gates is getting some opposition from the Right as well.

Check out Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough in this morning's Washington Times:

Specifically, conservatives say Mr. Gates is an agent of former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, who are from the "realist" school of national security advocates and who oppose the Bush administration's aggressive war on terrorism.

Mr. Baker currently leads the special task force on Iraq, also being headed by former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, that is expected to recommend changing the course of the war on terrorism.

"This is a victory for defeatism," said a former high-ranking defense official, opposed to the Baker-Scowcroft team, of Mr. Gates' nomination.

The nomination of a career CIA officer also is seen by defense conservatives as marking the beginning of a power grab of the Defense Department by the CIA, which had been kept at bay by Mr. Rumsfeld's policy of improving the military's own intelligence capabilities, independent of the CIA.

Mr. Gates is expected to appoint key aides who share his pro-CIA views, we are told.

Could this nomination prompt more dissension than President Bush expects? GOP Senators who want to begin distancing themselves from the President on Iraq and other national security measures could see taking digs at Gates's history as a secret public servant as an opportunity to sound a new tone and set a new course that moves them far away from the White House.

If you read on, Gertz also says that Stephen Cambone and Peter W. Rodman will be turning in their Pentagon IDs.