A report published last week by the right-wing site Breitbart News claimed that defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel’s confirmation was in question because of his purported connection to a certain terror group named “Friends of Hamas.” Since then, Republican lawmakers and conservatives have been pushing the report as evidence of Hagel’s anti-Israel views. The only problem, as Slate’s Dave Weigel thoroughly explains, is that the group doesn’t seem to exist:
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