Chuck Hagel

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Person.png Chuck Hagel  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician, businessman, deep state operative)
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BornCharles Timothy Hagel
1946-10-04
North Platte, Nebraska, U.S.
NationalityUS
Alma materBrown College, University of Nebraska, Omaha
ReligionEpiscopalianism
Children2
SpousePatricia Lloyd
Member ofAtlantic Council/Distinguished Leadership Awards, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Le Cercle, RAND/Board of Trustees
PartyRepublican
US Secretary of Defense, Chairperson of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board

Employment.png United States Secretary of Defense

In office
February 27, 2013 - February 17, 2015
Preceded byLeon Panetta
Succeeded byAshton Carter

Employment.png United States Senator from Nebraska

In office
January 3, 1997 - January 3, 2009

Employment.png Chairperson of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board

In office
October 28, 2009 - February 27, 2013
Preceded byStephen Friedman
Succeeded byDaniel Meltzer
Served with David Boren

Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel is a US politician, a former Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Atlantic Council

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[1]

Voting machines and miracle wins

Chuck Hagel was an unknown millionaire when he decided to run for one of Nebraska’s U.S. Senate seats in 1996. Initially Hagel trailed the popular Democratic governor, Ben Nelson, who had been elected in a landslide two years earlier. Three days before the election, however, a poll conducted by the Omaha World-Herald showed a dead heat, with 47 percent of respondents favoring each candidate. Managing editor of the Gallup Poll stated that "We can’t predict the outcome."[2]

Hagel’s victory in the general election, invariably referred to as an "upset," handed the seat to the Republicans for the first time in eighteen years. Hagel trounced Nelson by fifteen points. Harper's Magazine wrote that "even for those who had factored in the governor’s deteriorating numbers and a last-minute barrage of negative ads, this divergence from pre-election polling was enough to raise eyebrows across the nation."[2]

Until shortly before the election, Hagel had been chairman of the company whose computerized voting machines would soon count his own votes: Election Systems & Software (then called American Information Systems). Hagel stepped down from his post just two weeks before announcing his candidacy. Yet he retained millions of dollars in stock in the McCarthy Group, which owned ES&S. And Michael McCarthy, the parent company’s founder, was Hagel’s campaign treasurer.[2]

In the 2002 election, Hagel won an astonishing 83 percent of the vote—among the largest margins of victory in any statewide race in Nebraska’s history. And with nearly 400,000 registered Democrats on the rolls, his opponent David Matulka managed to scrape up only 70,290 votes.[2]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/19993 June 19996 June 1999Portugal
Sintra
The 47th Bilderberg, 111 participants
Bilderberg/20001 June 20004 June 2000Belgium
Brussels
Genval
The 48th Bilderberg, 94 guests
Bilderberg/200124 May 200127 May 2001Sweden
Stenungsund
The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW.
Le Cercle/2011Only known info about this meeting is a later invitation letter
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