USA | New Legislature Barack Obama chooses two men contested for the CIA and the Pentagon

Barack Obama opens the year nominations for his new team with controversy. The president announced Monday the election of Chuck Hagel as defense secretary and John Brennan as CIA director . For opposite reasons, both will undergo a complicated questioning in the Senate for confirmation on the charges. Hagel, 66, was a Republican senator, but his party colleagues disowned him for his lone opposition to the Iraq war and his votes against Iran sanction or force the European Union to treat Hezbollah as an organization terrorist. Now it has been attacked by several Republican senators. But gay activist groups, who complain about disparaging remarks he made ​​Hagel in 1998 against Luxembourg ambassador for his homosexuality. And not like a pro-Israeli organizations in 2006 complained because of the weight it has in the U.S. policy "the Jewish lobby". Obama defends the independence of its value as Hagel and former veteran of the Vietnam War. In fact, it is the first secretary of defense who has the experience of having voluntarily enlisted as an infantryman. Now his former ally John McCain, Hagel who supported his presidential race has turned against him . Sen. Lindsay Graham also said Sunday that the choice of Hagel is "a provocation" because their policies are "outside the mainstream". "It will be one of the secretaries of defense enemies of Israel in the history of our country," said Graham. Brennan, however, the Democrats angrier . Obama already tried naming in 2009, but dropped by the ratio of elected torture of detainees during the Bush Administration. Brennan, 57, said they did not participate directly in the program of "enhanced interrogation", but as a veteran of the CIA was always one of the hardest spies sector and has not to do anything to oppose the harsh interrogations. Obama made ​​as counterterrorism chief and now rewards you for having led the operation to capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden . Brennan has also been the architect of another controversial program, the unmanned aircraft (so-called 'drones') aimed at killing terrorists and supporters of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Obama takes well with Brennan personally, unlike the cold relationship he had with his predecessor, David Petraeus , who resigned in November after admitting to hide a complex set that had a mistress. Obama also got on in the Senate worked on immigration reform and traveled together to Iraq. The new team at the moment, complete with John Kerry , elected to be secretary of state and a less controversial figure. The senator, a veteran moderate Affairs committee, has the backing of both parties.