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The New York Times
| 4 months ago
Though Mr. Obama has not made a final decision, aides said, they expect an announcement early next week. Mr. McDonough's appointment would continue the president's practice of putting the people he trusts most in critical positions...Lew, another...
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Little Fairy Local
| 4 months ago
John Kerry for secretary of state, Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense and John Brennan for CIA director provide a good insight into President Obama's realistic worldview, one that sees boundaries to how far the United States can go in shaping...
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Reuters
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, former Senator Chuck Hagel (L), stands next to counterterrorism adviser John Brennan (R), the nominee for CIA Director, at the White House in Washington January 7, 2013. Obama announced the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 4 months ago
US Senator Chuck Schumer supports Chuck Hagel's nomination as defense secretary, saying his concerns over stance on Israel, Iran were addressed, describing Hagel as "forthcoming and sincere"; encourages Senate support. US Senator Chuck Schumer said...
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SF Gate
| 4 months ago
Sen. Chuck Schumer , an influential Democrat and member of the party's leadership, said Tuesday he would back President Barack Obama 's choice of Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon despite earlier misgivings about the Republican's stand on Israel, Iran...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 4 months ago
U.S. president Barack Obama's choice to be his new defence secretary won support from an influential Senate Democrat on Tuesday as he reaches out to all 100 senators in an effort to smooth what's expected to be a difficult nomination process. Former...
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Towleroad
| 4 months ago
Jon Stewart responded to recent complaints about the lack of diversity in Obama's cabinet picks by noting that 'white Obama' is running things now!...This post's comment feed Comments This line of "attack" amazes me...He replaced 1 white woman with...
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Miami Herald
| 4 months ago
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's choice to be defense secretary, is reaching out to all 100 senators and will be meeting personally with dozens of them starting this week. Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton has signed on to help...
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DAWN
| 4 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will appear before lawmakers on January 23 to be quizzed about the deadly attack on a US mission in Libya, just days before she steps aside as top US diplomat. The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed...
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Fox News
| 4 months ago
FoxNews.com Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify Jan. 23 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Benghazi attacks, committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce said Monday night. The California congressman said Clinton will answer questions...
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National Public Radio
| 4 months ago
Does President Obama have a problem with women?...Which is why at his Monday news conference, he found himself responding to criticisms about the lack of diversity in his picks so far for his second-term Cabinet State, Treasury, Defense and CIA who...
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CNSNews.com
| 4 months ago
Jack Lew, chief of staff to President Barack Obama, former director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and now the president's pick to lead the Treasury Department, told the Senate Budget Committee in 2010 that the deficit spending...
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Aim Jefferson
| 4 months ago
Alexander, a constitutional law professor at Seton Hall University and former senior adviser to President Obama, is a candidate for state Senate the 34th District. President Obama's Cabinet nominees, many questions will be raised both about their...
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Arizona Republic
| 4 months ago
Deflecting criticism about a perceived lack of diversity in his second-term Cabinet, President Barack Obama on Monday urged Americans not to rush to judgment about who he will appoint to replace departing members of his team. In a declaration tinged...
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Los Angeles Times
| 4 months ago
President Obama insists he's a pretty friendly guy but made clear Monday that he's skeptical that personal relationships with members of Congress have much to do with whether legislation passes...But that didn't get a deal done in 2011, Obama said in...
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Canadian Free Press
| 4 months ago
Of course, Iran's regime seeks a world literally without America. More to the point, Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Tehran are working tirelessly to secure the means by which to accomplish that goal. Specifically, they have or are developing the...
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Newsbusters
| 4 months ago
Looks like that much ballyhooed GOP-led "war on women" has jumped parties. Remember how liberals barked at the moon after Mitt Romney said during one of the presidential debates that he requested "binders full of women" while governor of...
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Washington Post
| 4 months ago
Secretary of State-designate John Kerry will have a difficult, if not impossible, task to best immediate predecessors' travel feats. After all, in terms miles-traveled former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice set a high bar with a record 1,059,247...
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The Hill
| 4 months ago
Obama went on to urge critics to "wait until they've seen all my appointments, who is in the White House staff and who is in my Cabinet, before they rush to judgment." January has seen the departure of a number of high-profile female members of the...
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Japan Times
| 4 months ago
The nomination of John Brennan as CIA director is getting lost in the controversy over the Chuck Hagel nomination for defense secretary. Brennan's reported support for Bush-era torture programs which he has denied and his oversight of President...
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CNN
| 4 months ago
Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and of "Governing America." (CNN) -- As President Obama's second-term Cabinet starts to take shape, we can see some of the...
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CNN
| 4 months ago
Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and of "Governing America." (CNN) -- As President Obama's second-term Cabinet starts to take shape, we can see some of the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 4 months ago
Committee added questions about Hagel's temperament to lawmakers' other concerns about the nominee, particularly his position on Israel ...Bush and a widely respected member of the GOP , had voiced strong support for Hagel shortly after President...
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Washington Post
| 4 months ago
Powell, who endorsed Hagel the day President Obama announced his nomination, pushed back against concerns some senators have raised about Hagel's record on Iraq, Iran and Israel. There are people who are very supportive of the state of Israel, Powell...
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The Guardian
| 4 months ago
Committee, highlighting the war crimes committed by American servicemen in Vietnam and asking: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" "We rationalised destroying villages in order to save them," he said. "We saw America lose...
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The Hill
| 4 months ago
She accused Obama of overlooking the "most qualified person," former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy, by failing to pick her as the first woman to lead the Pentagon. Blackburn said Flournoy had been the next in the queue for the...
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The Guardian
| 4 months ago
New York As Republicans stepped up their opposition to the nomination of Chuck Hagel, Colin Powell defended it on Sunday. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Former secretary of state Colin Powell has given fulsome support to President Barack...
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CNN
| 4 months ago
Ari Fleischer, a CNN contributor, was White House press secretary in the George W. Bush administration from 2001 to 2003 and is the president of Ari Fleischer Sports Communications Inc. He is a paid consultant and board member for the Republican...
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Newyork Times
| 4 months ago
The nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel to be the U.S. defense secretary could generate an important debate over national security. That will only happen if critics skip sideshows like accusations that he is anti-Semitic or pro-terrorist and...
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The Hill
| 4 months ago
Bush's administration but endorsed President Obama for a second term, appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" to defend Hagel as "superbly qualified based on his overall record, his service to the country, [and] ... how he feels about the troops." Obama's...
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Newsbusters
| 4 months ago
It really has been amazing to watch Obama's media cover for the lack of diversity in his cabinet picks. There is a lot made about the president's latest picks in the cabinet. Jack Lew, Senator Hagel, Senator Kerry in key positions here...Something...
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National Public Radio
| 4 months ago
In recent weeks, President Obama has chosen Sen. John Kerry as his next secretary of state; former Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon; counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to be CIA director; and his chief of staff, Jack Lew, to be the next...
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Magic City Morning Star
| 4 months ago
Search Guest Column The US Senate vote on the nomination of John Brennan and Chuck Hagel to the positions of CIA Director and Defense Secretary, respectively, will shape US power projection and posture of deterrence, global sanity, war on Islamic...
