Chuck Hagel: “Absolutely essential to our future that we maintain a strong, growing, credible military industrial base.”

It is a measurement. But I don't think it is the measurement. I mean, I was in a war with a lot of body counts every day. We lost everyone.

The President has determined that closing it is a national security imperative.

I think that is really the essence of the ultimate objective we'd like to see in Syria.

One would have to suspect the motive behind the effort to put together this panel.