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and welcome back on take action is the senators with the this is daniel
marian's
friends of hamas
that phrase was on the lips of many in washington across the country
this week and last week
as rumors swirled on right wing website specifically bright barton news
president obama's nominee for secretary of defense shock a goal had received a
speaking fee from an organization called friends of hamas the palestinian
terrorist organization
it turns out that this was debunked but not before
senator ran paul of kentucky repeated and many other prominent conservatives
who are not sitting members of congress use this as another called role in the
never-ending fight to confirm president on the sector defense on the chuck hagel
this past week there was another twist and turn in this story as the reporter
that made that believes that he inadvertently created this rumor
completely inadvertently
an innocent me and my dad
den friedman of the new york daily news
friends of hamas my role in the birth of a rumor and explains
how something that he wrote
to republican senate staff member
may have been picked up by the right wing news outlet bright bartok accom and
used to claim the truck hegel receive money from friends of hamas
joining us now and take action news is that reporter dan friedman
from the washington bureau of the new york daily news stand thanks for joining
us exam
laws
just briefly exactly how this happened
uh... recently um... either have been a lot of only speculation rumors
enrolled in a hurry pro bout other people that may be able to talk to some
groups that withheld controversial uh... so why ask uh... a number of people if
core on the hill and onto the senate if bum republicans who are sort of delving
around it and had actually heard about anything like that or if they were just
sort of insinuating that something like that might have happened
uh... men in the course to doing that i made up what i thought were hyperbolic
sounding names
uh... so one of them was a kind of a ma said adding the as an actual serious
question it was it was an agreeable
but i thought it sounded to d_n_ a lighthearted moment of the kind of thing
that they seem to be hoping to it
find out that the kind of group they seem to be hoping to find out if you
talk to the other one i came up with
i think with the uh... junior league has or stuff like that
this design you know it's it's a really sort of
clarice it stories that warrant so frightening
in terms of how people could take advantage of it because obviously after
that the staff member
leaked it's usa ben shapiro right bart dot com who then call the white house
for comment when they didn't deny it they ran a headline with the story
secret hegel daughter white house post office question on friends of hamas
and
i mean there is there a number of issues here and i'm gonna take them one by one
do you feel that the river the republican senate staff member violator
conference by sharing this question with bright bar dot com yeah i wrote that
uh...
the i think you can imagine expectation only people realize this especially
since it happened a few people said well he he doesn't have an obligation is
personal obligation to inspectors there's both um... of general
expectation i think at least you know
in my corner of the world in reporting on on capitol hill and in washington
aileen you ask about specific stopper even it in the
white of inquiry is usually the expectation is that you're not gonna
share at the person is not a share with someone else and how do we had uh...
whether or not uh... that general uh... that is generally the case it certainly
was specifically in this particular conversation that was the expectation in
the person that i was talking to you knew that that was the expectation
uh... so it was i was uh... surprise a little bit