{"id":16973,"date":"2013-01-17T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T01:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16973"},"modified":"2013-01-17T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T01:02:32","slug":"questions-for-hagel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16973\/questions-for-hagel\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for Hagel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/george-f-will-some-questions-for-hagel\/2013\/01\/16\/d7c016b8-5f41-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html \" target=\"_blank\">George Will<\/a> has some excellent questions that should be put to Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel in the latter\u2019s upcoming confirmation hearings.\u00a0 Here are my three favorites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u25cfDo you agree with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta\u2019s judgment that cuts under sequestration would \u201chollow out the force\u201d? Can you give examples of procurements or deployments that justify your description of the Defense Department as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/as-defense-secretary-chuck-hagel-would-face-shrinking-pentagon-immediately\/2013\/01\/07\/1f14f8c4-58fa-11e2-95d2-c7e9f0ba96c8_story.html\">bloated<\/a>\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u25cfCongress\u2019s power to declare war has atrophied since it was last exercised (against Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary on June 5, 1942). Should Congress authorize America\u2019s wars?<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u25cfSpeaking of the imperial presidency, do you believe that the use of drones to target specific individuals means presidents have an unreviewable power to kill whomever they define as enemies? Do you favor \u201csignature strikes,\u201d wherein drones attack not identifiable individuals but groups of young males whose characteristics match the \u201csignature\u201d of terrorists?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/george-f-will-some-questions-for-hagel\/2013\/01\/16\/d7c016b8-5f41-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Will has some excellent questions that should be put to Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel in the latter\u2019s upcoming confirmation hearings.\u00a0 Here are my three favorites: \u25cfDo you agree with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta\u2019s judgment that cuts under sequestration would \u201chollow out the force\u201d? Can you give examples of procurements or deployments that justify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1760,3984,84,2526,1501,178],"class_list":["post-16973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-chuck-hagel","tag-confirmation","tag-congress","tag-defense","tag-george-will","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16976,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16973\/revisions\/16976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}