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Defense Secretary Hagel reported to step down as early as today

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Has anyone seen this?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure from President Barack Obama's Cabinet, senior administration officials said Monday, following a tenure in which he has struggled to break through the White House's insular foreign policy team.


Hagel is the first senior Obama adviser to leave the administration following the sweeping losses for Obama's party in the midterm elections. It also comes as the president's national security team has been battered by multiple foreign policy crises, include the rise of the Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

A senior defense official said that Hagel submitted his resignation letter to Obama on Monday morning and the president accepted it. Hagel, 68, agreed to remain in office until his successor is confirmed by the Senate, the official said.

AP Source: Hagel resigning as Defense secretary

what do you all think?
 
Has anyone seen this?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure from President Barack Obama's Cabinet, senior administration officials said Monday, following a tenure in which he has struggled to break through the White House's insular foreign policy team.


Hagel is the first senior Obama adviser to leave the administration following the sweeping losses for Obama's party in the midterm elections. It also comes as the president's national security team has been battered by multiple foreign policy crises, include the rise of the Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

A senior defense official said that Hagel submitted his resignation letter to Obama on Monday morning and the president accepted it. Hagel, 68, agreed to remain in office until his successor is confirmed by the Senate, the official said.

AP Source: Hagel resigning as Defense secretary

what do you all think?

I guess I'm not surprised. I'm more surprised he lasted this long given his contentious relationship with the WH.
 
I guess I'm not surprised. I'm more surprised he lasted this long given his contentious relationship with the WH.

You hit it right on the head. This was NOT a good fit from the start.
 
Apparently they disagreed on how to deal with ISIS, they are saying it was mutual. Pres speaks around 11 am about it.
 
Has anyone seen this?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure from President Barack Obama's Cabinet, senior administration officials said Monday, following a tenure in which he has struggled to break through the White House's insular foreign policy team.


Hagel is the first senior Obama adviser to leave the administration following the sweeping losses for Obama's party in the midterm elections. It also comes as the president's national security team has been battered by multiple foreign policy crises, include the rise of the Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

A senior defense official said that Hagel submitted his resignation letter to Obama on Monday morning and the president accepted it. Hagel, 68, agreed to remain in office until his successor is confirmed by the Senate, the official said.

AP Source: Hagel resigning as Defense secretary

what do you all think?

:rolleyes: the buck stops w/O. Employers blaming their underlings for failures is a classic example of immaturity, i. e. the ability to say "I f--ed up and it's all my fault."
 
Knew this was coming months ago when Hagel dared to not back up the rhetoric on ISIS being weak and manageable.
 
Im ok with this. He didnt really have much qualifications for the job. Hopefully Obama will appoint someone more like Gates next, but I suspect we'll get another politician or bureaucrat instead.
 
:rolleyes: the buck stops w/O. Employers blaming their underlings for failures is a classic example of immaturity, i. e. the ability to say "I f--ed up and it's all my fault."

Could be. But what all these folks do, be it Hagel or any other cabinet position is carry out the instructions and policies of the president. Blaming them is the same as blaming oneself. He is no Harry Truman.
 
Apparently they disagreed on how to deal with ISIS, they are saying it was mutual. Pres speaks around 11 am about it.

Okay, if what you say is right, Hagel did the right thing. My opinion on ISIS is either to go in whole hog and do whatever it takes to drive them back into Syria or just quit and bring everyone one home. Let the chips fall where they may.

Half measures, limited this and limited that, this slow escalation will not work. It may stalemate ISIS for a while, but not long.
 
Maybe my recollection is off, but isn't it more typical that when a Secretary leaves that it is announced at the introduction to the replacement nominee?
 
Im ok with this. He didnt really have much qualifications for the job. Hopefully Obama will appoint someone more like Gates next, but I suspect we'll get another politician or bureaucrat instead.

Like his boss.
 
Maybe there were other issues, like budgeting that got in the way.
 
President Pinprick needed a scapegoat for the predictably disastrous results of his weak-sister foreign policy.
 
Has anyone seen this?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure from President Barack Obama's Cabinet, senior administration officials said Monday, following a tenure in which he has struggled to break through the White House's insular foreign policy team.


Hagel is the first senior Obama adviser to leave the administration following the sweeping losses for Obama's party in the midterm elections. It also comes as the president's national security team has been battered by multiple foreign policy crises, include the rise of the Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

A senior defense official said that Hagel submitted his resignation letter to Obama on Monday morning and the president accepted it. Hagel, 68, agreed to remain in office until his successor is confirmed by the Senate, the official said.

AP Source: Hagel resigning as Defense secretary

what do you all think?


Well Pero, :2wave: Since BO peep is talking about how Hagel doesn't have the skills or that BO requires a different set of skills. Shouldn't BO Peep tender his resignation. Its not like BO has anything he can fall back on. Skills of a Putz doesn't count here. Also have you noticed how BO has lost his bass in his voice when talking with those overseas. Kind of hard to talk tuff when one is viewed as a wimp.....huh?


While one administration official insists he was not "fired," per se, another says that President Obama asked him to step down from his post. From the New York Times:

The president, who is expected to announce Mr. Hagel’s resignation in a Rose Garden appearance on Monday, made the decision to ask his defense secretary — the sole Republican on his national security team — to step down last Friday after a series of meetings over the past two weeks, senior administration officials said.

The officials described Mr. Obama’s decision to remove Mr. Hagel, 68, as a recognition that the threat from the Islamic State would require a different kind of skills than those that Mr. Hagel was brought on to employ. A Republican with military experience who was skeptical about the Iraq war, Mr. Hagel came in to manage the Afghanistan combat withdrawal and the shrinking Pentagon budget in the era of budget sequestration.....snip~


BREAKING: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Reportedly Stepping Down - Christine Rousselle
 
President Pinprick needed a scapegoat for the predictably disastrous results of his weak-sister foreign policy.

just like dumbya's scapegoat. . .

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Did any see who BO was looking to replace Hagel with? What do you think about a Woman Running the Pentagon? You know BO will go with the Historical and try to get women to flock back to the Demos.



Among the leading contenders to replace Hagel is Michele Flournoy, who served as the Pentagon's policy chief for the first three years of Obama's presidency. Flournoy, who would be the first woman to head the Pentagon, is now chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security, a think tank that she co-founded.

Others mentioned as possible replacements include Ash Carter, the former deputy defense secretary, and Robert Work, who currently holds that post.

The timing of Hagel's departure sets up a potential confirmation fight in the Senate. Republicans, who will take control of the body next month, have been deeply critical of the president's foreign policy.....snip~
 
Did any see who BO was looking to replace Hagel with? What do you think about a Woman Running the Pentagon? You know BO will go with the Historical and try to get women to flock back to the Demos.



Among the leading contenders to replace Hagel is Michele Flournoy, who served as the Pentagon's policy chief for the first three years of Obama's presidency. Flournoy, who would be the first woman to head the Pentagon, is now chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security, a think tank that she co-founded.

Others mentioned as possible replacements include Ash Carter, the former deputy defense secretary, and Robert Work, who currently holds that post.

The timing of Hagel's departure sets up a potential confirmation fight in the Senate. Republicans, who will take control of the body next month, have been deeply critical of the president's foreign policy.....snip~

Plenty of fall guys to choose from.
 
The President "shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint . . . ." I hope the Republican majority in the next Senate--it's pretty clear the final gain will be nine seats--will block any and all nominations this President makes. Since he wants war, give him war. If he wants to appoint officials, let him nominate only ones Republicans approve of.
 
The President "shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint . . . ." I hope the Republican majority in the next Senate--it's pretty clear the final gain will be nine seats--will block any and all nominations this President makes. Since he wants war, give him war. If he wants to appoint officials, let him nominate only ones Republicans approve of.

Who do you want for defense secretary?
 
Plenty of fall guys to choose from.


Seems they have had one round from the Clinton days. How that happened.....only the Neo Cons know.

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Michèle Angelique Flournoy (born December 14, 1960) is the former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the third-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Defense, and in that role served as principal advisor to U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta from February 2009 to February 2012. When the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination on February 9, 2009, she was at the time the highest-ranking woman at the Pentagon in the department's history. She currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group and as a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), which she co-founded in 2007.

Flournoy attended Beverly Hills High School in Los Angeles, California, and has a bachelor of arts degree in social studies from Harvard University. She received an M.Litt. in international relations in 1983 from Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar at Balliol College

Flournoy served as a political appointee under the Clinton administration in the U.S. Department of Defense, where she was dual-hatted as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy. In that capacity, she was responsible for three policy offices in the Office of the Secretary of Defense:.....snip~

Michèle Flournoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Who do you want for defense secretary?

Any well-qualified official the Liar-in-Chief does not want would be fine. But depending on the timing of this change, someone may be appointed before the next Senate is seated. If so, it hardly matters who it is. Any yes-man who supports President Pinprick's feckless policies will do.
 
Did any see who BO was looking to replace Hagel with? What do you think about a Woman Running the Pentagon? You know BO will go with the Historical and try to get women to flock back to the Demos.



Among the leading contenders to replace Hagel is Michele Flournoy, who served as the Pentagon's policy chief for the first three years of Obama's presidency. Flournoy, who would be the first woman to head the Pentagon, is now chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security, a think tank that she co-founded.

Others mentioned as possible replacements include Ash Carter, the former deputy defense secretary, and Robert Work, who currently holds that post.

The timing of Hagel's departure sets up a potential confirmation fight in the Senate. Republicans, who will take control of the body next month, have been deeply critical of the president's foreign policy.....snip~

I dont care that shes a woman. I do care that she lacks military experience. DOD needs someone with a deep understanding of the military. Someone like Robert Work, the current undersecretary.

Robert O. Work - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
I dont care that shes a woman. I do care that she lacks military experience. DOD needs someone with a deep understanding of the military. Someone like Robert Work, the current undersecretary.

Robert O. Work - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Yeah I don't care about the part about her being a woman. It was that Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies from Harvard that has me wondering why none in the Bush Administration did not remove this individual out government.
 
The President "shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint . . . ." I hope the Republican majority in the next Senate--it's pretty clear the final gain will be nine seats--will block any and all nominations this President makes. Since he wants war, give him war. If he wants to appoint officials, let him nominate only ones Republicans approve of.

I'm no fan of Obama's, but that would be utterly foolish. The President, any President, should have whomever he/she wants in any cabinet position failing the nominee has serious criminal and/or personal/psychiatric disqualifiers. Judges - that's a whole other story.
 
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