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Posted on 11/01/2015 6:10:07 PM PST by amorphous
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Fethullah Gülen are two Islamist who are globally known to be key figures with a grand dream to revive the Ottoman Empire. They were in need to gain support from U.S. congress, especially lawmakers. So Gülen founded hundreds of charter schools across the United States and around the world and expanded his own media moguls with a powerful network of business leaders and organizations. He then started a confusing net of subsidiary groups by secretly funding more than 200 trips to Turkey for members of the United States Congress which went as far back as 2008.
An extensive investigation by the USA Today newspaper has found that these trips have been “repeatedly violating House rules and possibly federal law.â€
The report lists numerous members of Congress— most Republicans and many coming from southern states, taking advantage of the free trips to Turkey. The influential Washington DC-based news outlet Roll Call also revealed “hidden cash†that funded numerous Congressional delegations to Turkey, noting that the dozens of privately-sponsored trips to Turkey during the 113th Congress put the nation second only to Israel as the biggest foreign destination for U.S. elected officials.
Erdogan through Gulen succeeded in offering 200 members of congress (mostly republicans) to take these free lavish trips to Turkey all paid in full courtesy of Fethullah Gülen’s money he raised in the U.S as a business mogul.
After the two buddies had a fallout two years ago, things started to leak. Gülen became a wanted man by Erdogan in Turkey who accused Gülen of attempting to overthrow his government.
The USA Today investigation has found that congressional travel (bribes) since 2008 were filed with the House certifying that they were paying for the trips. The House Ethics Committee approved all the trips in advance based on the forms the Gülen groups submitted.
The bribes were done through a loophole by claiming to be for nonprofit humanitarian issues. The law states that Lobbyists, lobbying firms and foreign principals are prohibited from arranging or financing trips, but members of Congress can accept free travel paid by nonprofits, who are not required to disclose their contributions.
And so the tripes were funded under the claim of being for humanitarian causes. According to the investigation, many of those disclosures were apparently false. Some of the Gülenist groups claimed to be certified nonprofits, but they do not appear in state or IRS databases of approved charities. Groups that did register with the IRS filed tax forms indicating that they did not pay for congressional travel. And five of the groups admitted to congressional investigators earlier this year that a Gülenist group in Turkey was secretly covering the costs of travel inside Turkey especially for lawmakers and staff.
Congressional disclosures show the Gülen-backed trips totaled more than $800,000 in free travel for lawmakers and staff. That number likely underestimates the costs since many of the in-country expenses were not reported. And it is not at all clear where the $800,000 came from, since many of the groups involved do not appear to have the resources to pay for large delegation trips, according to the USA Today’s investigation.
The network of Gülen organizations is hard to untangle. The BBC reported in 2013 “the movement’s influence extends far beyond Turkey, funding hundreds of Islamic schools, and think tanks and media outlets, from Kenya to Kazakhstan. It has attracted millions of followers and billions of dollars.â€
It was after all Turkey that invented the system known historically as Turkish Bakhsheeh (Turkish style grease money) which has been the way to do business in Ankara, Jedda, Cairo … and now the system has been exported to Washington.
Anyone have a clue why we are getting all these special characters in Free Republic posts?
It was talked about on another thread let me find it for you
We are in the midd1/4 of a Freepathon.....
So, where is the list of CongressCritter names?
Not a direct explanation of why the frequency of occurrences suddenly spiked.
Fethullah Gülen's Grand Ambition. Turkey's Islamist Danger
"You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers … until the conditions are ripe, [you] must continue like this. … You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in [the republic]."
Infiltrate, infiltrate, infiltrate.. much like the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and their ideological issue have done to our Republic.
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Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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"Published reports and books reveal Alwaleed already has pledged millions to radical Muslim Brotherhood front groups that have a secret plan to Islamize America and spread Shariah law throughout the West. These pro-jihad groups can now count on a massive and virtually endless infusion of cash to their war chests."
No doubt citizens in Europe are loving obama us for creating this mess.
Yeah, that’s not helpful. I know nothing about programming and I’m just reading it.
It’s a FR bug or a server setting issue. No doubt the FR staff will have it corrected soon. Scary looking, makes test with lots of quotation marks and apostrophes hard to read, but harmless.
You just know one of them is going to be Durbin
I have believed for years that much of the govt and media are owned by them.
Greedy, immoral aholes.
It is said, on the internet, that the picture is from 1991, and refers to Albanian refugees. I don’t know for sure.
It may be. I lifted it from another thread. Thanks for the alert. Will try to research it for myself later. :-)
It will be in all caps like the link, and light blue in color. Approximately 2/3 of the way down the page.
WAKE UP AMERICA — DON’T PUCKER UP!!
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