Hagel blasts civilian bosses in Pentagon
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Deteriorating conditions in Iraq are a consequence of &quot;the arrogance and incompetency of the civilian leadership at the Pentagon,&quot; Sen. Chuck Hagel said Monday.
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Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a persistent Republican critic of the Iraq war, intends to announce on Monday he will not seek a third term, according to Republican officials.
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A watchdog criticises Palestinian armed groups in Gaza for using civilians as human shields against Israeli attacks.
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A Democratic U.S. Senator on  Thursday accused a senior Pentagon official of distorting  intelligence information to back claims of links between Iraq  and al Qaeda in the run-up to last year's U.S.-led invasion.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld blamed an Air Force procurement scandal on high turnover in top management positions, which he said reduced the amount of "adult supervision" of major weapons contracts over the past decade.
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Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton hit back Friday in a row with the Pentagon, after a top official accused her of emboldening US enemies by discussing troop withdrawals.
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PENTAGON A senior defense official says a Pentagon probe has found that Lieutenant General William Boykin violated regulations when he made church speeches casting the war on terrorism in religious terms.
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Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a  harsh critic of the Iraq war, plans to retire and will not seek  the Republican presidential nomination next year, a leading  Nebraska newspaper reported on Saturday.
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Leading Republican senator and Iraq war critic Chuck Hagel, who was considered a potential contender in the race for the presidency, announced plans to retire from politics Monday.
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Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), a mainstream conservative who raised his profile nationally through his fierce opposition to President Bush's Iraq policies, will announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate and will not run for president, sources close to the senator said yesterday.
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Looking more subdued than during most of his public appearances at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld responded to a barrage of criticism Wednesday by saying
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A former US soldier who allegedly ran a private anti-terror campaign in Afghanistan repeatedly tried to contact a US Defense Department employee here but the Pentagon did not want anything to do with him, a defense official said.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday criticized security contractors in Iraq as Baghdad piled more pressure on the State Department to pull the Blackwater firm out of Iraq after deadly shootings last month.
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Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a harsh critic of the Iraq war, plans to retire and will not seek the Republican presidential nomination next year, a source said on Saturday.
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The Defense Department's new civilian personnel system will cost more than the $158 million estimated by the Pentagon, a congressional report suggests.
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The Pentagon's inspector general Tuesday blamed "leadership failures" by top Air Force officials for a decade of sexual assaults and harassment against female cadets at the elite Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
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The Defense secretary is drawing fire from increasingly vocal critics, including some senior Republicans and top military officers.