Peter1469
11-29-2014, 10:03 AM
Hagel and Obama's Cabinet Problem (http://thehill.com/opinion/brent-budowsky/225207-brent-budowsky-hagel-latest-victim-of-obamas-cabinet-wars)
This is the 3rd Sec Def to exit the Cabinet over policy disagreements with the Administration. Politics aside, the Obama administration may be the most dysfunctional in modern US history.
It is extraordinary and unprecedented in my memory that two previous secretaries of Defense, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, have written critical books while the president they served remains in office, that a third secretary of Defense is now leaving over significant policy differences and that the president’s former secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, gave a critical interview in The Atlantic expressing concern regarding the same issues that troubled secretaries Gates, Panetta and Hagel.
It is equally significant that a long list of highest level national security members of the president’s Cabinet have believed and made it publicly known — correctly, in my opinion — that certain members of the White House staff have repeatedly and aggressively intervened in the conduct of security policy in ways that are detrimental to our security interests.
This is the 3rd Sec Def to exit the Cabinet over policy disagreements with the Administration. Politics aside, the Obama administration may be the most dysfunctional in modern US history.
It is extraordinary and unprecedented in my memory that two previous secretaries of Defense, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, have written critical books while the president they served remains in office, that a third secretary of Defense is now leaving over significant policy differences and that the president’s former secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, gave a critical interview in The Atlantic expressing concern regarding the same issues that troubled secretaries Gates, Panetta and Hagel.
It is equally significant that a long list of highest level national security members of the president’s Cabinet have believed and made it publicly known — correctly, in my opinion — that certain members of the White House staff have repeatedly and aggressively intervened in the conduct of security policy in ways that are detrimental to our security interests.