Journalist Bob Woodward writes:

In the first months of the Obama presidency in 2009, Chuck Hagel, who had just finished two terms as a U.S. senator, went to the White House to visit with the friend he had made during the four years they overlapped in the Senate.

So, President Obama asked, what do you think about foreign policy and defense issues?

Hagel responds:

Hagel, I should add, has just been fired from his position of Secretary of Defense, as this report notes.

Coincidence?