Chuck Hagel

[JohnR]

He lasted longer than I thought he would - which was still too long.

However, Arizona Sen. John McCain, the expected incoming chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said on local Arizona radio station KFYI 550's "The Mike Broomhead Show" that he spoke with Hagel last week and the Defense secretary was "frustrated."


"They're gonna say well it was time for a change and all that...but I can tell you he was in my office last week, he was very frustrated," McCain said, with a lack of strategy to combat ISIS, help the Ukranians and what McCain called "a lack of U.S. influence...unknown in history."


McCain said, despite the fact "White House people are leaking, 'Well, he wasn't up to the job,' believe me, he was up to the job" — and that the real issue was the White House itself.
"It was the job that he was given where he really was never really brought into that real tight circle inside the White House that makes all the decisions," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/24/politi...html?hpt=hp_t2