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GOP wants to eliminate shadowy DOJ slush fund bankrolling leftist groups
Fox News ^ | 3/1/2017 | Melissa Jacobs

Posted on 03/01/2017 10:06:34 AM PST by Beave Meister

The Obama administration funneled billions of dollars to activist organizations through a Department of Justice slush fund scheme, according to congressional investigators.

“It’s clear partisan politics played a role in the illicit actions that were made,” Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, told Fox News. “The DOJ is the last place this should have occurred.”

Findings spearheaded by the House Judiciary Committee point to a process shrouded in secrecy whereby monies were distributed to a labyrinth of nonprofit organizations involved with grass-roots activism.

“Advocates for big government and progressive power are using the Justice Department to extort money from corporations,” Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton told Fox News. “It’s a shakedown. It’s corrupt, pure and simple.”

There is a recent effort by Republicans to eliminate the practice, which many believe was widely abused during the Obama administration.

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What do they mean "wants"....just do it. You have the votes, what are they waiting for. Let these Communist pond scum go to Soros for this crap.
1 posted on 03/01/2017 10:06:34 AM PST by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

I can NEVER get my idea to a thread first!!

OF COURSE!!! JUST DO IT!!!

They sound like me with my diet!!!


2 posted on 03/01/2017 10:09:16 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Beave Meister

Yup.

And “through a Department of Justice slush fund scheme” - which was authorized by what law?

Time for Holder and his buddies to be facing an indictment.


3 posted on 03/01/2017 10:09:28 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Beave Meister

I’ve said all along - #BLM are Obama’s Red Guards. They were his own street-agitation force, used for pushing an extremist agenda, which his Administration could use as a foil for any number of more “main-stream” political operations - such as control of local police forces, increased government action on “civil rights” violations, etc...

They were organized and run out of the D.O.J.


4 posted on 03/01/2017 10:10:08 AM PST by PGR88
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What do they mean "wants"....just do it. You have the votes, what are they waiting for.

Mitch McConnell, McCain, Graham, Collins, Murkowski and Rubio, for starters

5 posted on 03/01/2017 10:10:19 AM PST by montag813
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To: Regulator

[Time for Holder and his buddies to be facing an indictment.]

This is the reason for DEMOCRAT delay tactics.


6 posted on 03/01/2017 10:11:20 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: PGR88

The DOJ also sent a taxpayer-funded brigade to FL, to organize protests against George Zimmerman. Nothing Obama/Holder did was sufficiently outrageous to raise an eyebrow on the Uniparty side.


7 posted on 03/01/2017 10:13:46 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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Slush funds in the State department, and the Justice department.

Bound to be slush funds in education and epa too.

The question is where are there not slush funds.


8 posted on 03/01/2017 10:15:24 AM PST by DannyTN
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Slush funds in the State department, and the Justice department.

Bound to be slush funds in education and epa too.

The question is where are there not slush funds.


9 posted on 03/01/2017 10:15:26 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Regulator

And yet, for Eric the Red Holder, this is perhaps among the less heinous of his schemes.

The guy is as slippery as the inside bark of a white-elm tree.


10 posted on 03/01/2017 10:15:30 AM PST by alloysteel (John Galt has chosen to take the job. This time, Atlas did NOT shrug.)
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To: Beave Meister

Jeff Sessions will label as extortion.

It will be gone as well as all of the rat AGs in the DOJ.


11 posted on 03/01/2017 10:15:32 AM PST by Grampa Dave (We are winning every day, while the Dems and Never Trumpsters are whining every day!!!)
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What do they mean "wants"....just do it. You have the votes, what are they waiting for. Let these Communist pond scum go to Soros for this crap.

They are.

Democrats thought it was an attack on Obama,” said Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., speaking to Fox News. “This is not a Republican or Democrat issue, but one of good government. Actions settled by the federal government should go back to the federal government, back to the taxpayer.”

Lankford has introduced the Stop Settlement Slush Fund Act of 2017 while House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., submitted similar legislation in the House.

12 posted on 03/01/2017 10:16:25 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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“The question is where are there not slush funds.”

Every agency and pseudo agency set up by the Clinton, BushCo and Obama thugs.

They have had 24+ years to set up these criminal enterprises, and it will take time to find them and defund them.


13 posted on 03/01/2017 10:18:46 AM PST by Grampa Dave (We are winning every day, while the Dems and Never Trumpsters are whining every day!!!)
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To: Beave Meister

The EPA slush fund is massive. They functionally fund the lawsuits against by environmental groups. Then the groups are awarded lush monies to fund the groups continued operations. It is a racket and it must stop.


14 posted on 03/01/2017 10:30:49 AM PST by buffaloguy
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To: Beave Meister
This is the fund that gives money to NGOs like the ACLU to sue the fed-gov when they don't win at the ballot box they just take it to federal court on our dime.

If Trump can't just elimonate it he should designate to funds to go to other NGOs like Judicial Watch or FIRE.

15 posted on 03/01/2017 10:31:40 AM PST by usurper
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To: Beave Meister
Press release

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52457

16 posted on 03/01/2017 10:32:55 AM PST by ptsal
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To: Regulator
There is a recent effort by Republicans to eliminate the practice, which many believe was widely abused during the Obama administration.

Sounds like the slush fund predated Obama. I wonder if Bush 43 was using it in a similar fashion.

17 posted on 03/01/2017 10:35:56 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar

I’m sure he failed to dismantle any program set up by Clinton, if he didn’t add to them.


18 posted on 03/01/2017 10:40:17 AM PST by dangus
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To: Beave Meister
How about prosecuting everybody involved in the diversion of funds, right up to and including Obama? Then we can see the real life version of this iconic image.


19 posted on 03/01/2017 10:44:08 AM PST by katana (It still hasn't occurred to them that Trump doesn't give a s***)
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To: Beave Meister; All
For the most part, Republicans are gutless, empty suits whose primary purpose is to work for two years and collect a paycheck for the rest of their lives.

The exceptions are people like McCain, Graham, Ryan, and a few others who are determined to destroying this country..

20 posted on 03/01/2017 10:44:52 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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