According to the Weekly Standard, Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel continues to block access to his archive at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. There are piles of papers, speeches, and multimedia by or about Hagel at the university. Yet reporters
Pew Research released a poll today that should give the White House cause for concern as the days tick by before Senator Chuck Hagel’s senate confirmation vote to become Defense Secretary. The more the public gets to know Hagel, the
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has doubled down on Chuck Hagel, though I don’t think he’s helping: Defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel “almost had tears in his eyes” when Sen. Chuck Schumer explained during a private meeting his objection to Mr.
Dan Friedman of the New York Daily News wrote a piece today suggesting that he was the inadvertent source of Breitbart News’ story on “Friends of Hamas” in early February. There’s only one problem. That’s false, and Friedman knew it
On November 8, 2007, then Senator Chuck Hagel spoke to the Center for Strategic and International studies Commission on Smart Power. The topic was about U.S.-Iran relations. “None of us in public office today, the Administration, Congress or Presidential candidates,
This is rather typical of the kind of mail we get supporting Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense: Subj: Hagel is a prophet…An Icon Hagel is a fearless prophet like Isaiah, Hosea, Ezekiel, Micah and other Biblical prophets who warned the
Slate’s Dave Weigel offers an argument in defense of Chuck Hagel’s alleged remarks in 2010 suggesting that Israel could become an apartheid state if it did not make peace with the Palestinians: Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the same thing
In a 2010 speech at Rutgers University, former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) said that Israel was on the way to becoming an “apartheid” state, called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “radical,” and accused Israel of violating UN resolutions, according
PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff is angry and looking to hold someone accountable for the delay in the confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Obama’s next Secretary of Defense. Last week Woodruff demanded to know if anyone was going to “pay
When then-Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) delivered a controversial speech in March 2007 at Rutgers University, he did so at the invitation of Hooshang Amirahmadi, an officially-approved candidate for the presidency of Iran in 2013 and advocate for the Tehran regime,
(Reuters) – A senior Republican senator said on Sunday that party colleagues will drop tactics to delay a vote on former Senator Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary, saying that President Barack Obama’s nominee likely has sufficient support to be
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel may not enjoy wide national support, but he has the strong support of America’s antisemites, if HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher is any indication. And leading Democrats, like Democratic National Committee vice chair Donna Brazile,
Is Chuck Hagel really the target of a witch-hunt? Here is what one prominent Senator had to say about the process: You know that we had a committee meeting to vote him out [i.e. to the full Senate]. You know
You’ll hear it all over cable news and the networks and in every lede paragraph from the Washington Post to the LA Times: Republicans are conducting an unprecedented filibuster of Chuck Hagel. Where did the media get this buzz word that’s
Following the Republican filibuster of Sec. of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel, a shocked Harry Reid (D-NV) said he was going to call Hagel and apologize over the fact that the confirmation had been stopped. Said Reid: They are filibustering him.
As soon as it became apparent the inept Chuck Hagel would not win a rubber stamp in the U.S. Senate today, something very odd happened… The completely objective, totally non-partisan, unbiased mainstream media got really angry. Strange, huh?
Republican Senators have the necessary 41 votes to block the confirmation of Chuck Hagel from coming to a vote this week, and will be able to stage a filibuster, according to an interview given by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) to
New evidence has emerged that a 2008 address to the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) by former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, was in fact a formal speech, contrary to the claims of the
With Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Sec. of Defense heading to a floor vote on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal has uncovered Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) dual standards for confirming cabinet nominees. For example, when President George W. Bush nominated John
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Armed Services Committee Chair Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) had a stringent exchange during the committee hearing today discussing the confirmation of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel. Cruz argued that Hagel had failed to provide
Senator Ted Cruz gave a detailed rebuttal to the proposed confirmation of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense. Cruz outlined Hagel’s failure to comply with the requests of the Armed Services Committee and his questionable statements and votes in his
In today’s debate in the Senate Armed Services Committee over the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) engaged in heated debate with committee chair Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) over the question of whether Hagel had
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the former Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has told the committee that he will vote not to send the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to the full Senate for confirmation, citing
The Middle East’s only Parliamentary Democracy is in the final days of forming their new coalition government under the leadership of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. If anyone suggests they know the final outcome, I can assure you based on my
In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised that he would “eliminate North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.” His campaign manifesto, Change We Can Believe In, described Obama’s North Korea policy, and the philosophy behind it, in great detail: North Korea is an
