Chuck Hagel

Photo of the Day: May 7, 2013

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs in Intercepts, Photo of the Day No Comments Tags: ,

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel hosted Secretary of State John Kerry at the Pentagon for a working lunch to discuss a range of national security issues. Before the meeting Secretary Hagel gave Secretary Kerry a painting depicting two Navy Patrol Craft Boats on the Mekong River Delta in the far south of Vietnam. Secretary Kerry commanded these types of vessels during the war. Secretary Hagel was also grateful to receive a signed photograph from Secretary Kerry taken during their February 2008 congressional delegation visit to Afghanistan along with then Senator Joseph Biden. (Sgt. Aaron Hostutler, USMC/DoD)

With Syria on everyone’s mind, Secretary of State John Kerry made the trip across the river yesterday to visit with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.

Among the items exchanged was the picture above, which we featured back in March as a Photo of the Day.

Photo of the Day: April 24, 2013

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs in Intercepts, Photo of the Day No Comments Tags: ,

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (L) walks with Deputy Minister of Defense Prince Fahd bin Abdullah upon his arrival at King Khaled International Airport on April 23, 2013 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Hagel arrived in Mideast at the start of a six-day regional tour, his first since taking over as Pentagon chief two months ago, which was likely to be dominated by concerns over Iran's nuclear program and Syria's civil war. (Jim Watson - Pool/Getty Images)

Photo of the Day: April 22, 2013

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs in Intercepts, Photo of the Day Tags: ,

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon speak during a joint press conference at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel on April 22, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/POOL/JIM WATSON)

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is in Israel, working out deals for the V-22 and helping to firm up plans for future military aid.  Stay tuned to DefenseNews.com, where we’ll have updates as news breaks.

Photo of the Day: April 4, 2013

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs in Intercepts, Photo of the Day Tags: , ,

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel delivers remarks at the National Defense University, Ft. McNair, Washington, D.C. on the strategic and fiscal challenges facing the Department of Defense, April 3, 2013. (Glenn Fawcett/DoD)

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gave what the Pentagon termed his first major policy speech April 3, a speech that called for major restructuring of commands in the name of cost savings.  Check out the full text of the speech after the break… More

Photo of the Day: March 11, 2013 (Hagel in Afghanistan)

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs in Intercepts, Photo of the Day Tags: , ,

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel returns a military salute as he steps off a blackhawk helicopter to transfer to an aircraft on his way to Washington on March 11, 2013 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Jason Reed/Pool/Getty Images)

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel finished up a brief surprise trip to Afghanistan on Monday.  Check out more images from his visit after the break… More

Reporter’s Notebook: Mopping Up the Messy Chuck Hagel Vote

By John T. Bennett in Capitol Hill, DoD, Intercepts, International, Israel, Policy Tags: , , , , ,

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., takes a call outside the Senate chamber on Thursday outside a GOP caucus meeting. (Photo by John T. Bennett | Defense News)

The scene for about five hours Thursday afternoon on the Senate side of the Capitol was nothing shy of controlled chaos. Senators, staffers and journalists darted about from gaggle to gaggle, meeting to meeting like frenzied bees around a nest.

Check DefenseNews.com for our coverage from a memorable Thursday — there’s more to come in the next few days as we wrestle with what it all means. But it’s the nature of the journalism business that some things don’t make it into published coverage. After the jump are some leftover nuggets from your correspondent’s notebook and recorder as we mop up the messy first round of the Hagel nomination. More

Will Dems’ Plan to Thwart the Not-a-Filibuster on Chuck Hagel Hold?

By John T. Bennett in Afghanistan, Capitol Hill, DoD, Intercepts, International, Israel, Policy Tags: , ,

Former U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., leaves the office of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., after the two met on Jan. 22. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Don’t call it a filibuster. Or, wait, maybe it actually is. Whatever one calls Senate GOP tactics, Senate Democratic leaders are again searching for five Republicans to vote with 55 Democrats Friday morning to end the not-a-filibuster-turned-filibuster and move to a final (simple majority) vote on Hagel’s nomination to become U.S. defense secretary. More

‘SNL’ Weighs in on Senate Republicans’ Treatment of Chuck Hagel

By John T. Bennett in Capitol Hill, DoD, Intercepts, International, Israel, Policy Tags: , ,

Those wacky social commentators from “Saturday Night Live” went so far as to run through a skit about the now-infamous Senate Armed Services Committee’s hearing on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to become U.S. defense secretary.

The skit didn’t make the final cut, but it has surfaced on the Internet. We’ll let you judge the content. We’ll just give a big Intercepts hat tip to the SNL hair and make up folks for nailing the looks of their fictional Hagel and SASC Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich. (Video via Salon via Hulu.)

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