WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid bluntly accused former Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday of being “out to make a buck” with a memoir that attacks numerous other officials from President Barack Obama on down.

“He denigrates everybody, everyone, Secretary (of State Hillary Rodham) Clinton, the president, (Vice President) Joe Biden, me.”

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