The Air Force official in charge of its sexual-assault prevention program was arrested for groping, authorities said Monday. Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, 41, was removed from his position as head of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office pending an investigation, the Air Force said. [NBC News] REPRESENTING the Air Force’s continued war on women, [...]
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Chuck Hagel and Dick Cheney Agree on North Korea, with Intelligence Minimal
“We have every capacity to deal with any action North Korea will take to protect this country and the interests of this country and our allies,” Hagel said. – North Korea nears ‘dangerous line,’ Hagel says SECRETARY HAGEL made it clear this week that President Obama is no different than any other American president in [...]
News Desk: CIA Drone Program to Shift to Pentagon? Exclusive Report at Daily Beast
The Daily Beast reports, in an exclusive report, that there may soon be some phased-in changes in the Obama administration’s use of drones. At a time when controversy over the Obama administration’s drone program seems to be cresting, the CIA is close to taking a major step toward getting out of the targeted killing business. [...]
Chuck Hagel, The Grunts’ SecDef, Asked to Downgrade Drone Medal
THE PHOTO essay at DOD is worth a look for those appreciating the history of Chuck Hagel’s appointment. Hagel is the first former enlisted man to ever become Defense secretary. In other news, Secretary Hagel is being lobbied to reconsider the prowess of a drone and cyberwarfare medal being considered. From the Washington Post on [...]
Pres. Karzai Causes More Trouble Than He’s Worth, This Time for Hagel
President Hamid Karzai leveled particularly harsh accusations against the United States on Sunday, suggesting that the Americans and the Taliban had a common goal in destabilizing his country. The comments cast a shadow on the first visit by Chuck Hagel as defense secretary. [New York Times] THERE’S really nothing nice to say about Pres. Hamid [...]
From Reporter to Economic Activist, Bob Woodward In White House Crosshairs [Email Text]
“You’re focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. … I think you will regret staking out that claim.” – Gene Sperling to Bob Woodward GENE SPERLING‘s conversation with Bob Woodward has exploded into a tale where [...]
Rand Paul’s Vote to Confirm Chuck Hagel
“There are many things I disagree with Chuck Hagel on, there are many things I disagree with John Kerry on, there are very few things I agree with the president on, but the president gets to choose political appointees,” Paul said. [Buzzfeed] THIS is what the Senate used to be about. Respecting that elections have [...]
Call Him Mr. Secretary
THE REPUBLICANS did their worst, but Vietnam war hero Chuck Hagel was confirmed today as President Obama’s Secretary of Defense. A simple majority won the day, 58-41. So, it’s finally over. The biggest loser is Jennifer Rubin, who disgraced herself and the Washington Post with her diatribes and rantings. Senator Ted Cruz was revealed for [...]
Chuck Hagel’s Confirmation Advances *Updated*
Senate Votes to Move Ahead on Chuck Hagel’s Pentagon Nomination Clears Way for Confirmation THE SENATE continues to torture the meaning of advise and consent.
Benghazi? We’re Still Waiting for Bush and Cheney to be Held Accountable for Iraq. [Rachel Maddow Videos]
Hagel saw that, in Iraq, America was taking on an already weakened leader who the senator said probably didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, and at the same time empowering another regime (Iran) that badly wanted WMDs–a dire development further documented on Monday by The Washington Post, which reported that the Iranian-backed Shiite group Asaib [...]
Ted Cruz and Other Senate McCarthyites Ask Obama to Withdraw Hagel Nomination
“Absolutely not,” Carney told reporters at Thursday’s daily briefing when asked whether there’s any chance the Hagel nomination will be withdrawn. “Any suggestion to the contrary might have been found in the minutes of the meetings of the Friends of Hamas.” [Washington Post] FROM THE “Friends of Hamas” joke that had Republicans and other extremists [...]
What Will Hagel McCarthyites Ted Cruz and Jennifer Rubin Do Next?
All of this is doubly concerning since the report from Rutgers. Contemporaneous notes recorded his words, and now Hagel can’t say definitively that he didn’t say them. Meanwhile, after a slumber, two major liberal Jewish organizations, the Anti-Discrimination League and the American Jewish Committee, have perked up. Gosh, if true, this is really bad stuff, [...]
Saddle Up, Leon, Hagel Vote Fails 58-40 (Blame the Filibuster)
Fox.com Headline, which has now been changed… Republicans vow to go to war with filibuster over Hagel INHOFE’S FILIBUSTER was hilarious in one regard, which was he actually felt compelled to go to the Senate floor to say it wasn’t a filibuster, even though 51, not 60, votes is a majority. It made Republicans [...]
Reid Schedules Vote on Hagel for Friday, Republicans Set to Filibuster *Update – HAGEL BLOCKED*
[UPDATE] Senior Democratic aides said that Hagel’s nomination does not have 60 votes at this time to overcome Republican objections before a key Friday procedural vote, leaving the nomination in limbo ahead of next week’s Senate recess. … “We do not have, at 12 o’clock today, a secretary of Defense,” Reid said. “It’s tragic they’ve [...]
Hagel ADVANCES, as Polling Shows Obama Trusted on Foreign Affairs and National Security *Update*
HAGEL NOMINATION ADVANCES Passed along party lines by 14-11 in committee Across nine issues, Americans give Obama his highest approval ratings for handling national defense (53%), followed by foreign affairs and immigration, each at 46%. [Gallup] SENATORS McCAIN, Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, James Inhofe and others have done their best to ruin the reputation of [...]
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