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By Karen Elliott House
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Tag: Secretary Of Defense
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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The location of a former training camp where Stasi operatives were taught to retrieve secrets through sex now houses a free-love commune; filibuster reform was blocked and now, for the first time in history, a secretary of defense nomination has been filibustered; meanwhile, Al-Jazeera has been accused of developing a political agenda since the Arab Spring. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Feb 18, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an excerpt from President Obama’s State of the Union speech and Chuck Hagel clears a big hurdle in the Senate.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the government’s pending legal action against S&P and Joe Scarborough becomes the latest conservative to smack down the NRA.
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 3, 2013
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including details on the newest version of Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and Denver’s mayor channels Ray Lewis after losing an NFL playoff bet.
Posted on Jan 31, 2013
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AP/Nati Harnik
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By Nick Turse, TomDispatch —
As Chuck Hagel begins his Senate confirmation hearings Thursday, you can be sure that no senator will ask him about his presence during the machine-gunning of an orphanage in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta or the lessons he might have drawn from that incident.
Posted on Jan 31, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Jan 12, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
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Chuck Hagel has apologized for the anti-gay comments he made in 1998 but liberals continue to disapprove of him for secretary of defense; with so much emphasis on the infamous fiscal cliff, someone should pay attention to the looming “climate cliff”; meanwhile, India’s Supreme Court will rule on a case that may mean the end of affordable generic drugs all over the world. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a marriage milestone in Maryland and Politics Today’s pick for the 2012 video of the year.
Posted on Dec 31, 2012
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DoD/D. Myles Cullen
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By Joe Conason — If Chuck Hagel is nominated by President Obama to serve as secretary of defense, there will be at least three compelling arguments in his favor.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a serious female contender to become the next defense secretary and Nate Silver’s analysis of gun ownership in America.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a GOP contender for a top Cabinet post in the Obama administration and why Michigan Republicans should have taken a closer look at the right-to-work legislation they passed.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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today.msnbc.msn.com
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What’s a secretary of state to do in the face of international terrorism and domestic unrest? Why, she should set the record straight on the “Today” show, which is just what Hillary Clinton did Thursday to tackle cloak-and-dagger rumors that she might replace Vice President Joe Biden in 2012 ... (more)
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
Posted on Mar 27, 2011
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DoD / U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jerry Morrison
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has held his position through the transition from the Bush to the Obama administration, but it’s looking like he won’t hang on for yet another presidential term.
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It might have been better for Gen. Stanley McChrystal if Defense Secretary Robert Gates had piped up a little earlier but, nonetheless, Gates comes to McChrystal’s, uh, defense in this interview with The Associated Press.
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CNN.com
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As expected, President-elect Barack Obama named Sen. Hillary Clinton as his choice for secretary of state and gave Robert Gates the opportunity to continue his work as secretary of defense—just two in a series of high-powered nominations Obama announced Monday.
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http://www.mnci.centcom.mil/leaders/index.htm
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On Tuesday, Gen. David Petraeus handed over the duties of commander of multinational forces in Iraq to his second-in-command, Gen. Raymond Odierno, who worked with Petraeus on implementing the U.S. troop surge over recent months. To mark the occasion, Petraeus, other American officials and Iraqi brass joined Odierno for a ceremony in a Baghdad-area palace formerly owned by Saddam Hussein.
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AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
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What’s a former secretary of defense to do now that he’s out of a job? Well, the answer for Donald Rumsfeld is apparently to write a (controlled) memoir arguing in defense of his military maneuvers in Iraq—for a sweet chunk of change.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, asks, “Is there a retired general left in the States who hasn’t called on Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to fall on his sword?”
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From ThinkProgress
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The former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East called on the secretary of defense and other Bush officials to resign for making a “series of disastrous mistakes” in Iraq. (video)
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CBS reported in Sept. 2002 that the secretary of defense was pushing to invade Iraq barely five hours after 9/11. A blogger uses the Freedom of Information Act to publish the handwritten notes by a Defense Dept. staffer that gave rise to that story.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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