No one has pointed to any subsequent complaints, and he has been endorsed by figures such as SteveClemons, a leading gay foreign policy scholar who knows Hagel well.
From the United States came Senators John McCain and Mark Udall, as well as such media luminaries as Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs, SteveClemons of the Atlantic, David Sanger of the New York Times, and former CNN White House correspondent Kathleen Koch.