{"id":27182,"date":"2015-12-18T22:09:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T03:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27182"},"modified":"2015-12-18T22:09:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T03:09:52","slug":"the-truth-begins-to-leak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27182","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Begins To Leak Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> posted an article today about an interview<\/a> former Defense Secretary<\/a> Chuck Hagel<\/a> published Friday in Foreign Policy<\/a>. The interview provided some insight into some of the decisions made in the Obama<\/a> Administration during Secretary Hagel’s tenure.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The interview with Foreign Policy comes nearly a year after his acrimonious exit from the Obama administration. Still smarting from the circumstances of his departure, Hagel told Foreign Policy that the White House<\/a> tried to \u201cdestroy\u201d him even after he resigned.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The interview explored the tensions between Hagel and others on Obama\u2019s team, but offered particularly revealing details about the backstory to the president\u2019s decision backing off his \u201cred line\u201d with Assad<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former Pentagon<\/a> chief said that decision in 2013 dealt a big blow to U.S. credibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it was the right decision or not, history will determine that,\u201d Hagel told\u00a0Foreign Policy<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s no question in my mind that it hurt the credibility of the president\u2019s word when this occurred.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

While it is well-known that Obama chose not to go forward with any military action against Assad in 2013 despite drawing that line \u2013 and instead pursued a diplomatic path to have Assad hand over his chemical weapons stockpile \u2013 Hagel described the military option as robust up until the moment Obama nixed it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see what papers will be made public when the Obama Administration opens its library. This administration has behaved like political thugs. They have politicized the justice department, the internal revenue, and anything else they touched. They have created a racial divide that has not existed in this country since the 1950’s. It will be interesting to see how transparent they will be with their internal records.<\/p>\n

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