{"id":17598,"date":"2013-02-20T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17598"},"modified":"2013-02-20T20:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:23:21","slug":"being-forced-to-vote-while-being-denied-necessary-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17598","title":{"rendered":"Being Forced To Vote While Being Denied The Necessary Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the objections in the confirmation battle of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chuck Hagel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chuck_Hagel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Chuck Hagel<\/a> as <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Secretary of Defense\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Secretary of Defense<\/a> is that there is a lot of missing information in the papers he has submitted to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Congress<\/a>. Actually, the blank spaces in that information could be easily cleared up by a search of Chuck Hagel\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">archive<\/a> at the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"University of Nebraska at Omaha\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.2595805556,-96.0050527778&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=41.2595805556,-96.0050527778 (University%20of%20Nebraska%20at%20Omaha)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">University of Nebraska-Omaha<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/hagel-stonewalls-refuses-grant-access-archive_703027.html\">Weekly Standard<\/a> is reporting that the University has decided to keep the archive sealed because not everything there has been processed.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cChuck Hagel&#8217;s record in the Senate is well documented in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Public domain\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_domain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">public domain<\/a>,\u201d says Hagel spokesman Marie Harf in an emailed statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cGiven his extraordinary disclosures to date, which surpass the threshold applied to nominees, there is no need to make this archived material public.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The man is being considered for Secretary of Defense&#8211;we need to know everything about him except his <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Shoe size\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shoe_size\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">shoe size<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The article contains this very interesting bit of information:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>But university officials yesterday indicated that if Hagel himself were to grant this reporter access to the archives, his request would be granted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but wonder exactly what is being hidden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the objections in the confirmation battle of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense is that there is a lot of missing information in the papers he has submitted to Congress. 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