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Hagel: The White House Tried to ‘Destroy’ Me
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Posted on 12/18/2015 5:29:30 AM PST by TigerClaws

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To: TigerClaws

Referencing National Security Advisor Susan Rice and White House clique.

This is the national Washington Government metastasis at work. At the beginning and through the early 1900s, the Cabinet Secretaries WERE the Presidential Advisors, so much so that it was an item of comment when someone like Col House was an advisor to Woodrow Wilson.

Now, in modern Washington, the Cabinet Secretaries ‘REPRESENT’ their departments to the President. Their time is spent attempting to manage departments that, in terms of employees and budget, are amongst the largest organizations on EARTH!

Now the President is ‘advised’ by in-house staff like the National Security Advisor and similar people for various functions. These shift from President to President as the interest and trends change. For some Cabinet Departments, Interior & Commerce for example, I doubt if they meet with this President except at formal meetings of the entire Cabinet.

Here is a fun question for which I have no answer; what ‘ranks’ higher, an Executive Sub Secretary or a Deputy Under Secretary? Meaningless to us peons but probably very important to Beltway Dwellers!


21 posted on 12/18/2015 6:02:30 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: tanknetter
As one pundit cogently observed: Obama doesn't have the necessary
presidential instincts. Everything he does is motivated by political instincts.

Even in grief-stricken Paris, when diplomacy of the highest art was necessary, he could not resist bashing Republicans claiming they are afraid of women and children (not battle-hardened Syrian refugees he is pouring into our communities). Then San Bernadino happened ....as a vengeful female jihadi exhibited her practiced killing skills.

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Responding to a Paris reporter, Obama actually said..... w/ a knowing smirk.....that he expects a Democrat to succeed him. Makes you wonder what he knows that we don't know, doesn't it?

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.....the Obama Administration is willfully deaf right now....but soon he will have a rude awakening when he becomes aware Americans are onto the deadly, treasonous game he is playing......

He was able to fool a lot of people into thinking he was an actual American...even a Christian. Now the masquerade is over....his mask has slipped. Obama looms large as a most vile creature.....a treasonous president.

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Americans are witnessing well-coordinated Islamic terror to overthrow the West......terror squads working together smoothly to get the killings done. They apparently are getting help from the very top.

BACKSTORY Recall couple weeks ago, the smirking Valerie Jarrett,
Obama by her side, telling Americans "big things are coming."

Then San Bernardino happened.

Americans need to consider the worst...that this WH scum is being bribed and are part of the terror squads....b/c it certainly looks that way.

Americans demand to see the wire-transfers (1) in and out of Valerie Jarrett's office, (2) those in and out of Obama's two foundations (two that we know of), and, (3) wire transfers into his library fund.....as well as other networks (perhaps CAIR) they might be using to launder bribes.

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He makes it up as he goes along. I heard the tail end of a news report .....mentioned Obama wrote on a policy statement that "he" thought the rule against it was "unconsitutional."

22 posted on 12/18/2015 6:02:41 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: TigerClaws

Join forces with an anti-American degenerate and what did this fool opportunist loser expect?


23 posted on 12/18/2015 6:08:58 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: TigerClaws

The likely reason his requests for one-on-one meetings with Obama were denied is because Obama is incapable of understanding military terminology, strategy, consequences, and impacts to the rest of his anti-American objectives.


24 posted on 12/18/2015 6:20:21 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: silverleaf
Hezbollah used those weapons. Most likely.

But again, Hezbollah is part of the protected islamic terrorist class. Like “Syrian” refugees.

25 posted on 12/18/2015 6:26:20 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: TigerClaws
The former Pentagon chief offers a view from inside an administration that was caught flat-footed by the multi-sided conflict in Syria and by the subsequent onslaught of the Islamic State.

While the White House sought to stay out of the conflict in Syria, the Islamic State's lightning advance into northern Iraq in June 2014 - with Baghdad's army collapsing in retreat - came as a "jolt" to the administration, Hagel said.

Asked at a press conference in August of that year about the nature of the threat posed by the Islamic State, Hagel told reporters that "this is beyond anything that we've seen." He cited the group's military skill, financial resources, and adept online propaganda as an unprecedented danger that surpassed previous terrorist organizations.

Caca ! Obunghole aided, abetted, armed and supplied the Islamic State. Wake up Chuck.

Sisi ignored Hagel's entreaties and continued his brutal campaign to repress the group. (Muslim Brotherhood).

Sisi had to do whatever it took to stop Obunghole's Muslim Brotherhood pals and save his country. He was wise to ignore you Chuck.

26 posted on 12/18/2015 6:27:33 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Liz

Gee, Barry sure does dress for the occasion. No doubt has his golf shoes on ready to hit the links.


27 posted on 12/18/2015 6:36:52 AM PST by surrey
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To: TigerClaws

Have a drink, Chuck.


28 posted on 12/18/2015 6:39:32 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Vaquero

Try this one
http://news.yahoo.com/hagel-white-house-tried-destroy-120536456.html


29 posted on 12/18/2015 6:44:41 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: TigerClaws

He can call someone who cares, I don’t.


30 posted on 12/18/2015 6:52:36 AM PST by sport
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To: TigerClaws

Staff Sergeant Hagel should have known what would happen with this military hating administration. But Staff Sergeants dont get paid to handle the big picture.


31 posted on 12/18/2015 6:52:37 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: surrey

Lol.......good one.


32 posted on 12/18/2015 6:53:16 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: Vaquero

Frustrating to have to join to read one article. No thanks FP, you are not worth it.


33 posted on 12/18/2015 6:58:24 AM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: BatGuano

See 29


34 posted on 12/18/2015 7:00:52 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: TigerClaws
Obama had publicly warned Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad that his regime would face consequences if it crossed a red line by employing chemical weapons against its own people. Assad did it anyway

How do we know that if chemical weapons were used that it was not ISIS itself who used them?

At this point we cannot afford to believe one word that comes out of Obama's mouth.

35 posted on 12/18/2015 7:03:24 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: JEDI4S
The UN report, what they were permitted to investigate, suggest the CW was used by ‘FSA” - the free syrian army guys trained armed and supported by the U.S. and Turkey

They had everything to gain by using CW on civilians ( probably villagers they had kidnapped since the neighborhood of the supposed attack had been pretty much abandoned ) to make it look like Assad using WMD on civilians and crossing obama openly stated “ red line” ( another stupid WH breach of OPSEC) and bring obama into the war against Assad

The CW weapons came through Turkey, were not part of the Syrian stockpile ( which the Russians took over after this attack )

There is more , possibly linked to Benghazi
Will the truth ever be known

36 posted on 12/18/2015 7:06:43 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: csvset
Sisi had to do whatever it took to stop Obunghole's Muslim Brotherhood pals and save his country. He was wise to ignore you Chuck.

Bump, exactly correct. Sisi saved Egypt from the Despotism of Obama's Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists. And Morsi and his MB Terrorists are still in jail. Many under death sentences.

37 posted on 12/18/2015 7:25:28 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Vaquero
Thank you. The article turned out to be a good read.
Many examples given of the disjointed administration trying to get by without a leader. Hagel stunned? He knew what he was getting into when he answered the call.

I hate to use this trite word, “Karma,” but there I go again.

38 posted on 12/18/2015 7:26:58 AM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: BatGuano

Karma, it’s what for dinner!


39 posted on 12/18/2015 7:30:39 AM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: bert

Aside from it being an isolated prison, why do we want that prison in Cuba. Are we so incompetent that we can’t build a secure-enough prison in America?


40 posted on 12/18/2015 7:39:36 AM PST by cymbeline
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