Posted on 04/20/2017 8:51:03 AM PDT by Da Bilge Troll
USAID website reports it gave $4,819,125 in taxpayer money to Soros’s Open Society Foundation – Macedonia between from 2012 to 2016 --- (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for records and communications relating to the funding and political activities of the Open Society Foundation – Macedonia. The Macedonia organization, part of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, received nearly $5 million from USAID from 2012 to 2016. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (No. 1:17-cv-00729)).
The suit was filed after both the U.S. Department of State and USAID failed to respond to a February 16, 2017, FOIA request seeking:
All records related to any grants, contracts, or disbursements of funds by the Department of State to the Open Society Foundation – Macedonia and/or any of the Foundation’s subsidiaries. This request includes all related requests for funding, payment authorizations, or similar records, as well as all related records of communication between any official, employee, or representative of the Department of State and any official, employee, or representative of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Any records of communication between any official, employee, or representative of the Department of State and any officer, employee, or representative of the Open Society Foundation -Macedonia and/or any of the Foundation’s affiliated organizations. This request includes responsive records of communication sent from or directed to U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Jess L. Baily. All analyses or similar records regarding the political activities of the Open Society Foundation -Macedonia and/or any of the Foundation’s affiliated organizations. All messages transmitted via the State Department’s SMART system sent from any U.S. Government employee or contractor operating under the Chief of Mission’s authority at the U.S. Embassy in Skopje that pertain to the Open Society Foundation – Macedonia and/or any of the Foundation’s affiliated organizations. The USAID website reports that between February 27, 2012, and August 31, 2016, USAID gave $4,819,125 in taxpayer money to Soros’s Open Society Foundation – Macedonia (FOSM), in partnership with four local civil society organizations. The USAID’s website links to www.soros.org.mk, and says the project trained hundreds of young Macedonians “on topics such as freedom of association, youth policies, citizen initiatives, persuasive argumentation and use of new media.”
In February, Judicial Watch reported:
The U.S. government has quietly spent millions of taxpayer dollars to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia by colluding with leftwing billionaire philanthropist George Soros, records obtained by Judicial Watch show. Barack Obama’s U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess L. Baily, has worked behind the scenes with Soros’ Open Society Foundation to funnel large sums of American dollars for the cause, constituting an interference of the U.S. Ambassador in domestic political affairs in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
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Here’s how the clandestine operation functions, according to high-level sources in Macedonia and the U.S. that have provided Judicial Watch with records as part of an ongoing investigation. The Open Society Foundation has established and funded dozens of leftwing, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Macedonia to overthrow the conservative government. One Macedonian government official interviewed by Judicial Watch in Washington D.C. recently, calls it the “Soros infantry.” The groups organize youth movements, create influential media outlets and organize violent protests to undermine the institutions and policies implemented by the government. One of the Soros’ groups funded the translation and publication of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” into Macedonian. The book is a tactical manual of subversion, provides direct advice for radical street protests and proclaims Lucifer to be the first radical. Thanks to Obama’s ambassador, who has not been replaced by President Trump, Uncle Sam keeps the money flowing so the groups can continue operating and recruiting, sources in Macedonia and the U.S. confirm.
According to InsidePhilanthropy.com, Soros’ Open Society Foundation “may be the largest philanthropic organization ever built, with branches in 37 countries. While the Gates Foundation spends more money, OSF has a larger footprint worldwide thanks to its many local offices, including throughout Africa.” OSF’s budget will be around $930 million …”
The activities of Ambassador Bailey and USAID’s funding of the Open Society Foundation have recently come under Congressional scrutiny. On January 17, 2017, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) sent a letter to Baily asking him to explain the State Department’s relationship with Open Society Foundation. On February 24, 2017, Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), and others called on the Government Accountability Office to conduct an investigation and audit of the Department of State and USAID’s activities in Macedonia, including funding of Open Society Foundation entities and potential interference in domestic Macedonian political affairs in potential violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
“The Obama administration seemed to bust taxpayer budgets in an effort to fund the Soros operation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Trump State Department and USAID should get their act together and disclose the details of the Obama-Soros spigot.”
Washington, DC, the corruption is beyond mere words.
Welcome to asylum of our era, where good is bad and bad is good. Where justice is just for us, USA peons, not for the big crooks living and influencing DC.
Far too many but the real question is: Why are organization which are not conducting inherently governmental work receiving tax payer dollars at all? How is this not a misappropriation of tax dollars?
I enjoyed the irony way too much last year. The folks who support the “Open Society” being so pissed that Hillary got hacked... of course, as I always say, if they weren’t hypocrites they wouldn’t be Rats...
“Isn’t there something the DOJ and Sessions can do??”
Yeah there is, but I have a feeling that Sessions is going to end up with less sleep than Trump : )
Judicial Watch is great as well, one of those places to donate that really deserve our money.
I follow JW’s daily posts on FB. Those people are way past the call of duty. Great outfit. Wish we had 10 of them!
They are as fine an ally as can be. Shining the light on the leftist corruption during the bamster years has become their specialty. Judicial Watch is one serious player, and will continue to be one for quite a while.
That would be the State Department under HRC and John Kerry, I'd presume. They were both Obama appointees and both failed 'Rat nominees for POTUS. Speaks volumes as to where the entire Washington Democratic Party is, and in particular, its relationship to Soros.
Last report I read was Sessions is stuck with the same staff Obama had in there. I know there are good guys among every department, but after 8 years the infiltration may be nearly complete.
Nothing is being exposed even at Justice. Why is that? No one trusted to conduct it and root out the sabatours is my only guess.
Has Sessions even announced his Deputy AG? FBI still has a Trump enemy as Deputy Director to Comey. McCabe or something similar is his name.
Comey just announced this deputy will not be recusing himself to investigate Trump Russia “connections”.
The intelligence depts are out of control. They can frame anybody.
Patience. It’s happening, we’re winning for the first time in decades.
It’s going to take time, it’s one Yuge nasty swamp.
As I understand it, private citizens are not to even contact other governments. Soros on the other hand pays armies around the world through his foundations.
I have no idea how this guy keeps from being thrown in some deep dark cell never to be seen again.
He’s wanted by Russia, and I believe there are three or four other nations.
We could have him up on charges too, what with paying people to disrupt campaigns with violence, and riot here and there.
He’s a freakin criminal.
Arrest the guy already. Declare his foundations a criminal enterprise/network.
End this nonsense.
Thank you very much. This is such good news. I pray he is Sessions pick.
I know they had to reverse the Obama fix. He had locked in by regulation some underlings of his as the only pool from which Trump’s AG would have to select.
What regulation was that?
No clue. One of his last minute cog jams to cost time and trouble to a new AG. There was so much going on it got lost in the news cycle, but Loretta Lynch was worth watching to me.
So, Macedonia, Egypt, Ukraine, France, Israel, Kenya....
Let’s keep digging on Soros.
We also need to see documents related to Soros and the CIA.
YES
Just FYI -
Rod Rosenstein has been confirmed as Deputy Attorney General by a 94-6 vote.
BTW, Rosenstein has been around long enough to have taken part in the Whitewater convictions that Hillary escaped, and Rosenstein was chosen by Trump before the ‘Russia hack’ b.s. even started. He’s an actual courtroom prosecutor.
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