The nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to Secretary of Defense has been held up due to Hagel’s failure to turn over required documents to the Senate Armed Services Committee, even after a letter prompting him for those documents. Those documents concern Hagel’s stream of income from foreign sources; obviously, being in a sensitive position such as Secretary of Defense, Hagel must be cleared by the committee of any possible financial entanglements with suspicious foreign sources.
On Wednesday, 25 Senators sent Hagel a letter with the following text, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News:
Dear Senator Hagel,
On January 29, two days before your
confirmation hearing, you received a request, via email, from several
Senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee for additional
information necessary to fairly assess your nomination to be Secretary
of Defense. The written copy of the letter (delivered the next day) was
signed by six Senators, including the Ranking Member of the Committee.
The letter requested that you respond to the request before the hearing,
so that you could then answer questions concerning your responses.
You declined to respond to the request for additional financial disclosure.
At the hearing, you were told by Members
of the Committee that a response to our request for information would be
necessary before the Committee could vote on your nomination. The
Chairman of the Committee expressly asked you to submit your response by
Monday, February 4.
Monday came and went, and you still did not respond.
At the end of the day on Tuesday,
February 5, you submitted a short “response” to our request. In that
response, you explicitly declined to answer many of the questions asked
of you.
You were asked to disclose all compensation over $5,000 that you have received over the past five years. You declined to do so.
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