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NEWS ABOUT: Chuck Hagel

Chuck Hagel stories: 27 news summaries

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OPINION

 Politicians We'll Miss in 2009 

Cheney's delightful brand of unrepentant evil simply unequaled

Dec 26, 08 12:29 PM CST
(Newser) - The election is over, a political era is ending, and a number of this year's frequent headline-makers will step out of the spotlight in 2009. Politico gets misty-eyed about its favorites:
  • Dick Cheney: Who else would tell a senior senator to “go f*** himself”? Who else, when
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Dick Cheney • politics • Chuck Hagel • William Jefferson • list • Ted Stevens • Alan Colmes

ANALYSIS


 GOP Picks for 
 Obama's 'Team of Rivals' 

Who are the best bipartisan choices for Obama?

Nov 18, 08 8:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama talks a good game about bipartisanship. But now that he’s staffing up, it’s time to see if he walks the walk. The Wall Street Journal runs through some potential GOP appointees:
  • Jim Leach. This former Iowa congressman was chosen to help represent the president-elect at
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Barack Obama • Chuck Hagel • Michael Bloomberg • Richard Lugar • bipartisanship

Clinton Rumored On Short List for Secretary of State 

Clinton under consideration with fellow senators Kerry, Hagel, Gov. Richardson

Nov 13, 08 3:18 PM CST
(Newser) - The Washington rumor mill has spit out an interesting item: Barack Obama may be considering erstwhile archrival Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State, the Post reports. Obama is not pleased with names floated for the position, including Sens. John Kerry and Chuck Hagel and Gov. Bill Richardson. Clinton might salve... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill Richardson • Chuck Hagel • John Kerry • secretary of State • transition • Sam Nunn • Election 2008 • President Obama • short list

GLOSSIES

Foreign Policy Drove Wedge Between Hagel, McCain

Fellow GOP senators and Vietnam vets 'fundamentally disagree' on key issues

Oct 28, 08 7:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Though Chuck Hagel and John McCain have plenty in common as Republican senators and Vietnam veterans, the Nebraskan says foreign policy is why he’s not on board. “In good conscience, I could not enthusiastically—honestly—go out and endorse him,” Hagel tells the New Yorker, “when... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Chuck Hagel • Senate Republicans • foreign policy • Election 2008 • interview

 Obama ISO VP Who Can Govern

Dem says he won't choose based on home region

Jul 27, 08 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama won’t pick a veep based on trying to win a specific region, he said today on Meet the Press. Instead, he’ll focus on “somebody who can help me govern,” Politico reports. The Dem also complimented both Clintons, saying the former first lady “... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Chuck Hagel • Iraq pullout • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • Iraq war

Brzezinski Down on Idea of Afghan 'Surge'

Security expert:
McCain camp on path
to world war

Jul 25, 08 5:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The presidential candidates seem to agree that Afghanistan needs a troop surge, but Zbigniew Brzezinski doesn’t. Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, now a Barack Obama backer, says he's concerned that the US is “literally running the risk of unintentionally doing what the Russians did,” and being... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Chuck Hagel • civilian casualties • Joe Lieberman • Richard Lugar • surge • Zbigniew Brzezinski

 Obama Arrives in Iraq 

Candidate to meet with commanders and troops on third leg of world tour

Jul 21, 08 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama landed in Basra today and headed to Baghdad for the latest leg of his world tour, the Washington Post reports. The candidate, who made a brief stop in Kuwait last night after 2 days in Afghanistan, will meet with US commanders and Iraqi officials and speak with US... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • Chuck Hagel • Nouri al-Maliki • David Petraeus • troop withdrawal • Kuwait • Jack Reed

Obama Meets Afghan Leaders, Reiterates Support

Says he's interested in listening, not talking

Jul 19, 08 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama met today with officials from one of Afghanistan’s most hard-fought regions, the AP reports, and re-iterated his commitment to intensifying US efforts there if elected president. Together with Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed, Obama visited Jalalabad Air Field in Nangarhar province. Nangarhar lies next to the Pakistani... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Taliban • Pakistan • Chuck Hagel • US military • Jack Reed

ANALYSIS

VP Picks Lieberman, Hagel:
Disasters for Party Bases

Candidates seem certain to pay for aisle-crossing tickets

Jul 18, 08 4:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - With talk that John McCain and Barack Obama could pick Joe Lieberman and Chuck Hagel, respectively, to round out their tickets, liberal and conservative stalwarts tell Politico the aisle-crossing VPs would likely wreak havoc with the parties’ bases. While each has broken with his party on Iraq, Lieberman is far... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Chuck Hagel • Joe Lieberman • vice president • Family Research Council • NOW • NARAL • American Conservative Union

Obama to Meet With Abbas
During Mideast Swing

Dem to meet Palestinian president in Ramallah

Jul 14, 08 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama will visit Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank next week, a top Palestinian official said today. The Ramallah meeting with the president of the Palestinian Authority will happen on July 23, CNN reports. Details on the international trip have been guarded, but the Times of London says Obama... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Israel • Jordan • Chuck Hagel • London • Germany • Mahmoud Abbas • France • West Bank • Jack Reed

GOP's Hagel Will Travel
to Iraq With Obama

Republican has been a vocal critic of the war

Jul 11, 08 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - GOP national-security stalwart and longtime McCain friend Chuck Hagel will join Barack Obama on his upcoming trip to Iraq, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. The retiring Nebraskan senator has been a vocal critic of the war and the Bush administration. Despite his Republican credentials, he has been floated as... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • John McCain • Chuck Hagel • Joe Lieberman • Vietnam War

OPINION

 McCain Camp
 'Winces,' Waits
 for Powell
 Defection 

Hagel not expected to endorse either candidate

Jun 26, 08 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s team is holding its breath for the “expected” endorsement of Barack Obama by the ever-popular Colin Powell, Robert Novak writes in a Washington Post tour of the “Obamacon” movement. Such Republicans-turned-blue are less energized by Obama's candidacy than they are in agreement with one of... More »

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Barack Obama • Chuck Hagel • Republican Party • Colin Powell • George W. Bush

OPINION

 Obama-Hagel Ticket?
 Tempting, but Forget It 

Rumored running-mate possibility more promising in theory than in practice

Jun 17, 08 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republican maverick Chuck Hagel is being bruted as a possible running mate for Barack Obama, and it's a tempting fantasy. He's a Vietnam vet with abundant foreign policy experience and a very public split with Bush on the Iraq war; having him on the ticket would also give serious cred... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • Democrats • Republican • Chuck Hagel • vice president • vice presidential candidate

OPINION

Lieberman, Hagel Cross Aisles to Pound Candidates

Senators cross party lines with foreign policy criticism

May 21, 08 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Lieberman and Chuck Hagel are fighting a duel of aisle-crossing foreign policy critiques, as the former Dem candidate takes aim at Obama and the GOP heavyweight scolds McCain. “How did the Democratic Party get here?” Joe asks in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, accusing Barack of kow-towing to... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Chuck Hagel • Joe Lieberman • foreign policy • FDR • appeasement

Senators OK After Emergency Afghan Landing

Snowstorm grounds choppers carrying Kerry, Biden, Hagel

Feb 21, 08 4:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Helicopters transporting three US senators over mountains in Afghanistan were forced to make an emergency landing today due to a snowstorm, the Associated Press reports. US troops sent ground transportation for Democrats John Kerry and Joseph Biden and Republican Chuck Hagel, none of whom was injured, and returned them to... More »

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Afghanistan • Congress • Joe Biden • Chuck Hagel • John Kerry • helicopter • emergency landing

Waterboarding Is Illegal: Justice Dept.

Legal expert to tell House committee it's no longer acceptable

Feb 14, 08 8:18 AM CST
(Newser) - A top Justice Department official will declare to a House subcommittee today that waterboarding is no longer legal—a day after Congress defied President Bush's veto threat to explicitly outlaw the controversial interrogation tactic. "The set of interrogation methods authorized for current use is narrower than before, and it... More »

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Congress • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Chuck Hagel • Senate • Michael Hayden • waterboarding • Steven Bradbury • George W. Bush

Critics Call on Bloomberg
to Run or Pipe Down

NY mayor's doing everything short of launching a presidential campaign

Jan 11, 08 3:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Mike Bloomberg is under increasing pressure to decide whether he's going to enter the presidential race or stay above the fray. New York's billionaire mayor has criticized the field of candidates, talked with potential running mates, and studied intricate polls—and is now beginning to test the public's patience, reports... More »

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Chuck Hagel • Michael Bloomberg • Sam Nunn • third party candidacy • Quinnipiac University • Marist College • Unity08 • Election 2008

Obama Surge Could Pull Plug on Bid by Bloomberg

Both men after independent voters

Jan 8, 08 5:18 AM CST
(Newser) - The ongoing popularity surge by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama may short-circuit potential plans by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to enter the race as an independent, reports the New York Times. “Obama is trying to reach out to independent voters, and that clearly would be the constituency that... More »

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Barack Obama • Chuck Hagel • Michael Bloomberg • Gary Hart • Christine Todd Whitman • Sam Nunn • third party candidacy • Republican Leadership Council • Election 2008

Moderates May Field Indie Candidate

Bloomberg to attend bipartisan meeting

Dec 30, 07 8:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Michael Bloomberg may run in 2008 after all, if a bipartisan group of politicos fail to see progress from the major parties, the Washington Post reports. Bloomberg and a gaggle of figures, including former senators and governors, will meet next week in Oklahoma. They plan to demand that major... More »

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Democrats • Republican • Chuck Hagel • Washington DC • Michael Bloomberg • partisanship • independent presidential candidates • Gary Hart • Christine Todd Whitman • University of Oklahoma • Sam Nunn • David Boren

Senators:
Vets Need
New GI Bill

Hagel, Webb argue
US owes it to
today's soldiers

Nov 9, 07 11:36 AM CST
(Newser) - The US needs a spruced-up GI Bill for today's veterans, Chuck Hagel and Jim Webb say in an op-ed in today's New York Times. The Vietnam vets argue that the measure "was one of the most important pieces of legislation in our history" and call for a new version... More »

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Jim Webb • Chuck Hagel • Ted Stevens • John Warner • GI Bill • Daniel Inouye • Iraq veterans

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