Analyst's note:  This article alone should absolutely disqualify Senator Hagel for the position of Secretary of Defense of OUR United States.  This man is clearly a progressive (socialist/Marxist) with his fingers in a lot of "financial activities" to give away or "redistribute" your money and thus help destroy our nation.  No wonder Mr. Obama and Joe Biden like him.  Please see the original article for the a significant laundry list of redistributive project involvement.  Do we really think this man can think impartially about the defense of the United States?

Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for defense secretary, sits on the board of numerous globalist groups that promote major increases in U.S. government funding for the third world.

Hagel is a board member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, a broad-based influential network of businesses, policy makers, and national security and foreign policy experts pushing for more U.S. funding for diplomacy and Third World development. It also includes faith-based, academic and community leaders.

One recent report, “Building a Better, Safer World,” calls for the elevation of “global poverty” with increased U.S. humanitarian assistance worldwide.

[....] WND previously reported Hagel has a long history of introducing legislation aimed at massive U.S. funding for the Third World, even pushing a de facto global tax.

With Obama, Hagel co-sponsored the Global Poverty Act, which would have imposed a new “tax” on the U.S. requiring the country to add 0.7 percent of the gross national product to its overall spending on humanitarian aid [....]