HuffPost Politics Russ Feingold is running for Chuck Hagel's old Senate seat in Wisconsin.

Fox News Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel revealed that he had approved plans to strike Damascus after Bashar al-Assad crossed the “red line” by using chemical weapons – but President Barack Obama told him to stand down.

Fox News Politics Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel revealed in an extensive interview published Friday that he had approved plans to strike Damascus with Tomahawk cruise missiles after Syria’s Bashar al-Assad crossed the “red line” by using chemical weapons Read more ... – but President Obama told him to stand down. http://ow.ly/W5i2k

CNN Politics Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel discusses a memo criticizing the U.S. approach to Syria and urging a clearer view of how to handle Assad that he wrote to the White House a month before he announced his resignation.

CNN Politics Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel discusses a memo criticizing the U.S. approach to Syria and urging a clearer view of how to handle Assad that he wrote to the White House a month before he announced his resignation.

CNN Politics Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel discusses a memo criticizing the U.S. approach to Syria and urging a clearer view of how to handle Assad that he wrote to the White House a month before he announced his resignation.

CNN Outgoing Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told CNN’s Barbara Starr that White House officials pressured him to increase the pace of detainee transfers from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay. http://cnn.it/1LwaoqU

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NPR Hagel also touches on the prospects of closing Gitmo — "It's going to be very difficult," he says — the rocky situation in Yemen and the need for a "political shift" in Syria.

NPR President Obama wants to close the prison at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay before leaving office, but his departing defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, tells NPR the job is "going to be very difficult" to complete in that time.