The front runner

CNN is reporting that Sen. Chuck Hagel has met with both President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden and is the front runner for the Secretary of Defense position soon to be vacated by Leon Panetta.
One Democratic source familiar with the process told CNN Hagel is “the frontrunner.” Another Democrat with knowledge of the process told CNN Hagel’s nomination is “almost a done deal.”
As The Algemeiner reported last month, Hagel’s policy towards Israel has been roundly criticized .
“He is one of the most hostile critics of Israel that has ever been in the Senate,” Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America told The Algemeiner bluntly.
Read more: http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/12/13/report-despite-controversial-israel-policy-chuck-hagel-is-frontrunner-for-defense-secretary-position/