| − | '''Jake Sullivan''' (b. 1976) was Deputy Assistant to President [[Barack Obama]] and a Senior Policy Advisor to the [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign]]. Sec. of Defense [[Chuck Hagel]] said Sullivan is one of Obama's {{Quotebox|"35-year-old PhDs who love to talk, because that's the way you let everybody know how smart you are, is how much you talk."<ref> Sec. Chuck Hagel continues, "[Obama] has a staff around him that's very inexperienced. I don't think there's one veteran on his senior staff at the White House. I don't believe there's one business person. I don't believe there's one person who's ever run anything. Other than [[Vice President Biden]], none of them have ever been elected to anything." Sec. [[Robert Gates]] criticized "staffers calling senior commanders out in the field and asking them questions, of second guessing commanders...I told my combatant commanders and field commanders … if you get calls from … the president, that's one thing. But if you get a call from some White House or National Security Council staffer, you tell them to call me instead, and then tell them, by the way, go to hell." Hagel also criticized [=Susan Rice]]'s approach and subservience to Obama.<br> https://youtu.be/GPPx83VoLyY</ref>}} | + | '''Jake Sullivan''' (b. 1976) was Deputy Assistant to President [[Barack Obama]] and a Senior Policy Advisor to the [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign]]. Sec. of Defense [[Chuck Hagel]] said Sullivan is one of Obama's {{Quotebox|"35-year-old PhDs who love to talk, because that's the way you let everybody know how smart you are, is how much you talk."<ref> Sec. Chuck Hagel continues, "[Obama] has a staff around him that's very inexperienced. I don't think there's one veteran on his senior staff at the White House. I don't believe there's one business person. I don't believe there's one person who's ever run anything. Other than [[Vice President Biden]], none of them have ever been elected to anything." Sec. [[Robert Gates]] criticized "staffers calling senior commanders out in the field and asking them questions, of second guessing commanders...I told my combatant commanders and field commanders … if you get calls from … the president, that's one thing. But if you get a call from some White House or National Security Council staffer, you tell them to call me instead, and then tell them, by the way, go to hell." Hagel also criticized [[Susan Rice]]'s approach and subservience to Obama.<br> https://youtu.be/GPPx83VoLyY</ref>}} |