Dan Friedman

Senior Reporter at Mother Jones

Dan Friedman appears in the following:

How to Accidentally Start a Rumor About a U.S. Senator

Friday, February 22, 2013

This month, the conservative site Breitbart.com suggested that Senator Chuck Hagel, Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, had secret financial ties to a group called “Friends of Hamas.” It did not look good: a U.S. politician had allegedly received money from a terrorist organization that's called for Israel’s destruction. Turns out though, it  wasn’t true. New York Daily News reporter Dan Friedman tells Brooke about his theory that he was the source of the rumor.

 

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How the Rumor Plaguing Chuck Hagel Came to Be

Thursday, February 21, 2013

President Obama’s nominee for defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, has been a tough spot in recent weeks. Politically, his nomination has held up, but his performance in his testimony was ...

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