Chuck Hagel, nominee for Secretary of Defense, took money from Hamas supporters?

**Posted by Phineas

As Allahpundit would say, “Dude?”

On Thursday, Senate sources told Breitbart News exclusively that they have been informed that one of the reasons that President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, has not turned over requested documents on his sources of foreign funding is that one of the names listed is a group purportedly called β€œFriends of Hamas.”

Yesterday, 25 senators sent a letter to Hagel demanding information on his foreign funding. Hagel has refused all such requests, prompting the senators to state, β€œin the judgment of the undersigned, a Committee vote on your nomination should not occur unless and until you provide the requested information.”

To quote from Article VII of Hamas’ charter:

The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree

And their motto in Article VIII:

Allah is its goal, the Prophet its model, the Qur’an its Constitution, Jihad its path and death for the case of Allah its most sublime belief.

Yeah, I can kind of see where taking money from an organization that calls itself friends of these Jew-hating goons might throw a bit of a monkey wrench into the nomination process… As in, it may be time to start the final countdown on the Hagel nomination death watch.

Do they ever vet their nominees in this administration, or do they just not care?

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

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