Tag: Pentagon

FILE - This Dec, 18, 2008 file photo shows then-Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel in Omaha, Neb. President Barack Obama will nominate Hagel as his next defense secretary, a senior administration official said Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. The selection of the decorated Vietnam combat veteran sets up a potentially contentious confirmation hearing because Hagel has come under scrutiny from his former colleagues over his positions on Israel and Iran. Some Republicans already have declared their public opposition to Hagel replacing Pentagon chief Leon Panetta in Obama's second-term Cabinet. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver, File)

National Security

Obama taps Chuck Hagel for Pentagon, John Brennan for CIA

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

Jed Babbin: Why Obama chose Chuck Hagel for Defense

National Security

Jed Babbin: Why Obama chose Chuck Hagel for Defense

Jed Babbin · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

Mr. Hagel and the Jews

Elliott Abrams · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

James Carafano: Our progressive way of war

James Carafano: Our progressive way of war

James Jay Carafano · January 6, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this June 26, 2008 file photo, then Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., speaks on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington. President Barack Obama may round out his new national security leadership team next week, with a nomination for defense secretary expected and a pick to lead the CIA possible. Hagel is the front-runner for the top Pentagon post. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

National Security

Mitch McConnell reserving judgment on possible Chuck Hagel bid

Jack Gillum · January 6, 2013 5:00 am

(FILE PHOTO) In this composite image a comparison has been made between US President Barack Obama (L) and Chuck Hagel. Obama will reportedly nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary replacing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. ***LEFT IMAGE*** WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 28: U.S. President Barack Obama said he was "modestly optimistic" while making a statement on fiscal cliff negotiations following a meeting with Congressional leaders at the White House December 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. Obama and members of Congress continue to seek a solution to avert the possibility of large tax increases combined with deep spending cuts also known as the "fiscal cliff". (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) ***RIGHT IMAGE*** OMAHA, NE- MARCH 12: U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) speaks at the University of Nebraska-Omaha March 12, 2007 in Omaha, Nebraska. Hagel announced that he will postpone making a decision on whether to seek the Republican nomination for president until later this year. (Photo by Eric Francis/Getty Images)

National Security

Sources: Obama to nominate Chuck Hagel as Pentagon chief

Associated Press · January 6, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - This July 23, 2010, file photo shows Gen. Stanley McChrystal reviewing troops for the last time as he is honored at a retirement ceremony at Fort McNair in Washington. Speaking out for the first time since he resigned, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal writes in a new memoir that he takes the blame for the Rolling Stone article that ended his Afghan command and army career, including for the unflattering comments attributed to his staff about the Obama administration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Gen. Stanley McChrystal takes blame for Rolling Stone article

Kimberly Dozier · January 5, 2013 5:00 am

CNN: Hagel Has ‘Been Against Sanctions for Iran, Has Been for Talking to Hamas’

CNN: Hagel Has ‘Been Against Sanctions for Iran, Has Been for Talking to Hamas’

Daniel Halper · January 4, 2013 11:04 pm

Todd: ‘My Guess Is that They Yank Chuck Hagel at the End of the Day’

Todd: ‘My Guess Is that They Yank Chuck Hagel at the End of the Day’

Daniel Halper · January 4, 2013 1:52 pm

9/11 Truther Endorses Hagel

Daniel Halper · January 3, 2013 11:17 pm

Former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel speaking in Omaha, Neb. President Barack Obama's possible pick of Republican Chuck Hagel to run the Pentagon raises serious concerns among some of his former Senate colleagues, who question his pronouncements on Iraq, Israel and the Middle East. The reservations publicly expressed by a few Republicans and even a Democrat hardly rival the unyielding GOP objections to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who withdrew from consideration for secretary of state in the face of relentless attacks mostly over her public statements about the Sept. 11 assault on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Chuck Hagel friends try to save his Pentagon nomination

Paul Bedard · January 3, 2013 5:00 am

Coburn: ‘I Cannot Vote for Chuck Hagel’

Coburn: ‘I Cannot Vote for Chuck Hagel’

Daniel Halper · December 31, 2012 12:11 pm