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Featuring:
Why former Pentagon chief
Chuck Hagel's coming out against
the White House matters
Dan Lamothe
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nObama White House Turns To Islamists
Who Demonize Terror Investigations
John Rossomando
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Former DIA Chief Flynn Says nObama's
Terrorism Strategy 'Is Not Working'
Rick Moran.
{pjmedia.com} ~ The former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency blasted President nObama for downplaying the threat from Islamists and overstating our readiness due to an "allegiance to ideology"... that skews decisions and policies that are at odds with what's happening on the ground. Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn decried the Democrats and media elites who focus on gun control and "Islamophobia" instead of religion. “It’s a cancerous form of radical Islamism and we cannot allow it to exist on this planet anymore,” he said. Flynn made his remarks in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation: .
'The only country ISIS fears in the
Middle East is Israel'
jpost.com staff
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{jpost.com} ~ A German journalist who spent 10 days with Islamic State says that the radical jihadist group that has captured wide swaths of Syria and Iraq is deterred by only one Middle Eastern country – Israel... In an interview with the British Jewish News, Jurgen Todenhofer recalls his brief time behind enemy lines during which he spoke with ISIS fighters. “The only country ISIS fears is Israel,” Todenhofer, a former member of the German parliament, told Jewish News. “They told me they know the Israeli army is too strong for them.” http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/The-only-country-ISIS-fears-in-the-Middle-East-is-Israel-438576
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Democrats Don't Know ISIS
A.J. Caschetta
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A path to a more unified,
conservative party
REP. DENNIS ROSS
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Report: Pentagon Thwarts nObama's
Effort to Close Guantanamo
newsmax.com staff
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{newsmax.com} ~ In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country... If they succeeded, the transfer would mark a small step toward realizing President Barack nObama's goal of closing the prison before he leaves office. The foreign officials told the administration they would first need to review Ba Odah's medical records, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the episode. The Yemeni has been on a hunger strike for seven years, dropping to 74 pounds from 148, and the foreign officials wanted to make sure they could care for him. To slow prisoner transfers, Pentagon officials have refused to provide photographs, complete medical records and other basic documentation to foreign governments willing to take detainees, administration officials said. They have made it increasingly difficult for foreign delegations to visit Guantanamo, limited the time foreign officials can interview detainees and barred delegations from spending the night at Guantanamo.
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Study proves nObamacare is sucking
up 10% of Americans' incomes
thedailysheeple.com staff
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ISIS Captive Reveals Turkey’s Partnership
With ISIS More Than Just Smuggling Oil
Rick Wells
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Video at the site
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Veterans can expect more bad
health care from nObama’s VA
Betsy McCaughey
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In From The Cold And Out Again…
How The CIA Was Duped And
Their Double Agent Failure
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
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Why former Pentagon chief
Chuck Hagel's coming out against
the White House matters
Dan Lamothe
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Now, a little over a year later, Hagel is swinging back. In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine published on Friday, he said he remains puzzled why White House officials tried to "destroy" him personally in his last days in office, adding that he was convinced the United States had no viable strategy in Syria and was particularly frustrated with National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who he said would hold meetings and focus on "nit-picky" details.
Now, a little over a year later, Hagel is swinging back. In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine published on Friday, he said he remains puzzled why White House officials tried to "destroy" him personally in his last days in office, adding that he was convinced the United States had no viable strategy in Syria and was particularly frustrated with National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who he said would hold meetings and focus on "nit-picky" details.
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"I eventually got to the point where I told Susan Rice that I wasn't going to spend more than two hours in these meetings," Hagel told Foreign Policy. "Some of them would go four hours."
"I eventually got to the point where I told Susan Rice that I wasn't going to spend more than two hours in these meetings," Hagel told Foreign Policy. "Some of them would go four hours."
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Hagel said the administration struggled with how to handle Syria - hardly a surprise, given the way nObama said in August 2012 that it would be a "red line" for the United States if Syria moved or used its chemical weapons stockpiles, but did not intervene militarily the following year when Syria did so. Hagel said that hurt nObama's credibility, even if declared stockpiles eventually were removed through an agreement reached with Damascus.
Hagel said the administration struggled with how to handle Syria - hardly a surprise, given the way nObama said in August 2012 that it would be a "red line" for the United States if Syria moved or used its chemical weapons stockpiles, but did not intervene militarily the following year when Syria did so. Hagel said that hurt nObama's credibility, even if declared stockpiles eventually were removed through an agreement reached with Damascus.
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"Whether it was the right decision or not, history will determine that," Hagel told Foreign Policy. "There's no question in my mind that it hurt the credibility of the president's word when this occurred."
"Whether it was the right decision or not, history will determine that," Hagel told Foreign Policy. "There's no question in my mind that it hurt the credibility of the president's word when this occurred."
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The White House declined to comment on the article. However, an administration official disagreed anonymously with many assertions in Hagel's interview. Waiting before launching cruise missiles provided a window for the chemical weapons agreement reached, the official said.
The White House declined to comment on the article. However, an administration official disagreed anonymously with many assertions in Hagel's interview. Waiting before launching cruise missiles provided a window for the chemical weapons agreement reached, the official said.
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Hagel is far from the first former Pentagon chief in nObama's administration to later criticize the president and his staff. But he just might be the most unlikely. A former Republican senator from Nebraska, he saw eye-to-eye with nObama on many national security issues before he was nominated. Like nObama, he also was a strong critic of President George W. Bush's war in Iraq - one of the first in the Republican Party.
Hagel is far from the first former Pentagon chief in nObama's administration to later criticize the president and his staff. But he just might be the most unlikely. A former Republican senator from Nebraska, he saw eye-to-eye with nObama on many national security issues before he was nominated. Like nObama, he also was a strong critic of President George W. Bush's war in Iraq - one of the first in the Republican Party.
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The two men also still have a friendly relationship, Hagel told Foreign Policy. Nonetheless, he just took several large steps down the same road as Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, who preceded Hagel at the Pentagon and later laid out their grievances in memoirs written after they left office.
The two men also still have a friendly relationship, Hagel told Foreign Policy. Nonetheless, he just took several large steps down the same road as Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, who preceded Hagel at the Pentagon and later laid out their grievances in memoirs written after they left office.
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Gates, who served for both President George W. Bush and nObama, wrote in a book released early last year that he was "seething" and "running out of patience with on multiple fronts" with the administration. All too often, he wrote, "suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials - including the president and vice president - became a big problem for me as I tried to manage the relationship between the commander in chief and his military leaders."
Gates, who served for both President George W. Bush and nObama, wrote in a book released early last year that he was "seething" and "running out of patience with on multiple fronts" with the administration. All too often, he wrote, "suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials - including the president and vice president - became a big problem for me as I tried to manage the relationship between the commander in chief and his military leaders."
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Panetta followed last fall with his own book, saying nObama had a "frustrating reticence to engage his opponents and rally support for his cause" and too frequently "relies on the logic of a law professor rather than the passion of a leader." In an interview promoting the book, he added that the president had "kind of lost his way" and was partly to blame for the collapse of the Iraqi government last year because he didn't press harder to keep American troops in the country in 2011, ahead of a complete military withdrawal.
Panetta followed last fall with his own book, saying nObama had a "frustrating reticence to engage his opponents and rally support for his cause" and too frequently "relies on the logic of a law professor rather than the passion of a leader." In an interview promoting the book, he added that the president had "kind of lost his way" and was partly to blame for the collapse of the Iraqi government last year because he didn't press harder to keep American troops in the country in 2011, ahead of a complete military withdrawal.
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Hagel, for his part, told Foreign Policy that he got "the hell beat out of him" figuratively at the White House for delaying in signing transfer orders to release detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when he had concerns about the individuals involved. He also said he felt micro-managed - something that Gates, Panetta and other defense officials have all expressed.
Hagel, for his part, told Foreign Policy that he got "the hell beat out of him" figuratively at the White House for delaying in signing transfer orders to release detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when he had concerns about the individuals involved. He also said he felt micro-managed - something that Gates, Panetta and other defense officials have all expressed.
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"There is a danger in all of this," Hagel told Foreign Policy, referring to White House micromanagement and the administration's expanding national security staff. "This is about governance; this isn't about political optics. It's about making the country run and function, and trying to stay ahead of the dangers and the threats you see coming."
"There is a danger in all of this," Hagel told Foreign Policy, referring to White House micromanagement and the administration's expanding national security staff. "This is about governance; this isn't about political optics. It's about making the country run and function, and trying to stay ahead of the dangers and the threats you see coming."
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