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… will be advised by new Secretary of State John F. Kerry. He has also named former HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029696 senator Chuck Hagel as defense secretary, a nomination still in question after an unsteady performance by the candidate before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week t...

slammed Hagel for his past comments and positions on Iran. In conjunction with Israel-friendly members of Congress, they’ve warned Obama to rein Hagel in so as not to send a dovish signal to Tehran. Robert Satloff, executive direction of the Washington Institute for Near East Pol...

slammed Hagel for his past comments and positions on Iran. In conjunction with Israel-friendly members of Congress, they’ve warned Obama to rein Hagel in so as not to send a dovish signal to Tehran. Robert Satloff, executive direction of the Washington Institute for Near East Pol...

…e the Administration's talk about "all options being on the table" seriously. Mr. Obama's nomination of Iran dove Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense reinforces that impression, as do reports that the White House blocked Pentagon and CIA plans to arm the opposition that's figh...

announced that he had earned their support — and their vote. Then, during his confirmation hearings on January 31, Hagel — under hostile questioning from several Republican senators — backed away from earlier-held positions on Iran, including the role of sanctions. And, though h...

announced that he had earned their support — and their vote. Then, during his confirmation hearings on January 31, Hagel — under hostile questioning from several Republican senators — backed away from earlier-held positions on Iran, including the role of sanctions. And, though h...

…se of force,” he said. “In the first term, the administration didn’t always speak with one voice on this issue. So what Hagel says can make a difference.” Despite his poorly receieved performance at his confirmation hearings, it’s widely believed in Washington that Hagel will...

…i has created a politics where it's hard for him to compromise." But so has the United States. Anyone who watched Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing knows that it is an article of faith in Congress -- and pretty much a bipartisan one -- that Iran is a faithless, illegitimate terr...

senator Chuck Hagel as defense secretary, a nomination still in question after an unsteady performance by the candidate before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that focused in part on his past criticism of Israel. “This trip is a signal that the president has an int...

senator Chuck Hagel as defense secretary, a nomination still in question after an unsteady performance by the candidate before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that focused in part on his past criticism of Israel. “This trip is a signal that the president has an int...

…se of force,” he said. “In the first term, the administration didn’t always speak with one voice on this issue. So what Hagel says can make a difference.” Despite his poorly receieved performance at his confirmation hearings, it’s widely believed in Washington that Hagel will...

…They include Congressmen eager to defend Israeli interests at all costs (as was vividly illustrated by the recent Chuck Hagel confirmation hearings), powerful lobbies such as AIPAC, media barons, high-profile Jewish financiers like Sheldon Adelson, a phalanx of neo-con strategist...

…ntenance of the truly special relationship between our peoples. • On behalf of the people of Israel, I wish Secretary Hagel all the best in his new role. • As Secretary of Defense he will, no doubt, serve his country with the same pride and honor with which he served, both on...

…ely that they are badly misreading Iranian politics. For many observers, however, and for Iran, too, the nomination of Hagel for secretary of defense may be a sign that the White House is beginning to realize that sanctions, and threats of military action, won’t force Iran’s han...

… that Iran is waiting to see how President Obama’s new national security team — with Kerry as secretary of state, Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense, and John Brennan at the Central Intelligence Agency — will shape Obama’s stance at any talks. In Washington, some would argue th...