Chuck Hagel

Report: Hagel Stepping Down; ‘He Wasn’t Up to the Job’

By Jim Geraghty November 24, 2014

From the November 17 Morning Jolt: Bing West thinks that someone in the Obama administration’s national-security inner circle will leave in the not-too-distant future, perhaps Chuck Hagel or Susan Rice. To be ...

America At War in Iraq, Day Four

By Jim Geraghty August 11, 2014

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, speaking in Sydney, Australia, today: “On the assessment of the effectiveness of the air strikes, they have been very effective, from all the reports that ...

Has Anyone Seen Chuck Hagel Lately?

By Jim Geraghty February 19, 2014

Then, when President Obama nominated Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense: In the Senate, I came to admire his courage and his judgment, his willingness to speak his mind — ...

The Old ‘Engage Assad’ Crowd Now Compares Him to Hitler

By Jim Geraghty September 4, 2013

From the Wednesday edition of the Morning Jolt: Persuasion Tip: Stop Comparing Your Old ‘Partner for Peace’ to Hitler How’s this for irony? Chuck Hagel and John Kerry, writing in the Wall ...

Chuck Hagel, Impending Placeholder

By Jim Geraghty February 12, 2013

The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus compares Chuck Hagel, former senator and nominee to be secretary of defense, to the late Les Aspin, the former congressman who became Bill Clinton’s first ...