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Chuck Hagel Getting the Janet “Waco” Reno Treatment in Bergdahl Swap

By Ben Barrack If you want evidence that Barack Obama knows he has a big disaster on his hands with the Bowe Bergdahl swap, just look at who’s getting the same treatment Janet Reno got after the Waco disaster. In 1993, when the Waco compound of David Koresh went up in flames at the hands […]

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Chuck Hagel Implies Taliban not Terrorists

It’s not uncommon for politicians to say things that later come back to bite them but Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel did it all in one interview. On one hand, Hagel insisted that the Obama administration ‘didn’t negotiate with terrorists’ in reaching a deal on a prisoner swap involving five Taliban terrorists and Bowe Bergdahl. […]

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News to Huma Abedin? Chuck Hagel allegedly said State Department an adjunct of Israeli Government

Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel – Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense – appears to have another battle to fight relative to past comments that increasingly make the case that he is anti-Israel at best and anti-Semitic at worst (note that it is Republicans who are opposing their own; Democrats rarely do that). Hagel […]

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Senator Ted Cruz grills Chuck Hagel over anti-Semitic comments caught on Video

The evidence that Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of State, is anti-Israel is quite overwhelming. In this exchange between Hagel – who is himself a Repoublican – and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is a must-see. Cruz is cordial and spends less than two minutes on an opening statement / initial question. Subsequent to […]

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Obama’s Secretary of Defense nominee appears to suffer from Armenian Holocaust denial

Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama’s choice for Secretary of State, has come under quite a bit of fire for his past comments on Israel. It appears that in 2005, Hagel advocated giving Turkey a pass on its Armenian genocide in the early 20th Century. Via WFB: “What happened in 1915 happened in 1915,” Hagel said during […]

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Obama’s Secretary of Defense nominee, Chuck Hagel played victim card in defense of Palestinians in 2007

In 2007, then-Senator Chuck Hagel (Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense) essentially became an apologist for terrorists when he alleged that the reason Palestinians commit acts of terror is because they “lack hope” and “have been chained down for many, many years”. He also said this, via WND: “…this is not about terrorists don’t […]

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