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Into the Heart of Hackness

by Josh Marshall
02.20.13 | 3:57 am

NYDN Reporter explains how his offhand remark, laundered through the hands of GOP operatives and hack reporters, got Chuck Hagel in trouble for his ties to “Friends of Hamas.”

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