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Hagel: Gitmo transfers caused friction with some at White House
CNN ^ | January 31, 2015 | By Laura Koran

Posted on 01/31/2015 1:00:33 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Washington (CNN)White House officials pressured Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to increase the pace of detainee transfers from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, the outgoing secretary acknowledged to CNN's Barbara Starr in an interview Friday.

"Not everyone at the White House has agreed with me," said Hagel of his methodology for deciding on detainee releases.

Disagreements between Hagel and officials in the President's inner circle have been widely reported during his short tenure as secretary of defense. But in his interview with CNN, Hagel spoke with uncharacteristic candor about friction related to the prisoner release.

"We've had a lot of conversations," Hagel said.

"With the White House?" Starr pushed back.

"Yes," said Hagel. "And Congress. And the press."

But Hagel also said he isn't fazed by the pressure on the issue of detainee transfers. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: barbarastarr; bleedinghearattack; catchandrelease; chuckhagel; cnn; gitmo; gitmodetainees; guantanamo; hagel

1 posted on 01/31/2015 1:00:33 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I hate to break it to you this way Chucky but the commie left used you as one of their useful idiots.


2 posted on 01/31/2015 1:02:19 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When the hell do I get MY white privilege? I'm tired of busting my @$$ for a living.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Does Hagel really expect anyone to believe that this was his call to make?


3 posted on 01/31/2015 1:04:53 PM PST by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

translation: valerie jarrett has collected another scalp


4 posted on 01/31/2015 1:10:59 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Why should a little TREASON bother them?


5 posted on 01/31/2015 1:18:54 PM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Hagel has become an emasculated male (meaning he is ball less), whereby he was made so by a woman - Jarret. Is not it an oddity that a woman from the Middle East is the one pulling the punches. Just wonder if Jarret is behind all the flak about Bibi coming to speak to the House of representatives because of the negotiations with Iran. Let’s face it the woman has motives for America to surrender to Iran.


6 posted on 01/31/2015 1:20:04 PM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: hondact200

Of course Jarrett is behind the flak. She is the boss at the White House.


7 posted on 01/31/2015 1:35:43 PM PST by abclily
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To: hondact200

‘Woman from the Middle East’ - perhaps that is why they bag them there??


8 posted on 01/31/2015 1:56:41 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

A DYSFUNCTIONAL family has more credibility than the current Administration.


9 posted on 01/31/2015 2:09:05 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Brad from Tennessee
If Hagel were any man at all, he'd inform these White House staffers that it is none of their damned business, and that his boss is the President. If Obama wants the terrorists released so that they can go back to killing Americans, then make HIM give a written order directly, and not use his underlings and advisors to try and intimidate the Secretary of Defense. They are NOT in the chain of command. Gates to his credit usuually did blow them off.

But then again, this is spineless Hagel we're talking about.

10 posted on 01/31/2015 2:50:10 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: hondact200

” Hagel has become an emasculated male (meaning he is ball less), whereby he was made so by a woman - Jarret.”

That assumes he ever had any balls.


11 posted on 01/31/2015 3:33:05 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Brad from Tennessee

It is hard to sympathize with you, Chuck, when you jump into a pit of vipers, that, you would think your principles would not have fang marks. You should have seen it coming, everybody else did.


12 posted on 01/31/2015 5:06:21 PM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

What is disappointing is that someone from DOD did not march over to the White Hut and arrest the pre_sent in charge when this farce started to unfold...While I agree that our military must be civilian led, there are plenty of civilians who could have been in charge of the country without the interloper of Hope getting in the way...None of this is going to end well...


13 posted on 01/31/2015 5:12:09 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Too little, too late. CYA Hagel ping.
14 posted on 01/31/2015 11:33:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Apparently Chuck Hagel is president, Lord knows Obama’s never officially taken responsibility for anything except a beer summit.


15 posted on 02/01/2015 6:23:09 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: abclily

And as we well know, there are no loose canons or mavericks in the Obama administration, not a one.


16 posted on 02/01/2015 6:24:25 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

And now ISIS says they are going to behead Obama in the White House. Valerie will let them in when she is done with her ignorant puppet.


17 posted on 02/01/2015 7:01:13 AM PST by abclily
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