Posted on 07/12/2016 9:35:09 AM PDT by jazusamo
The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday.
Some $350,000 was sent to OneVoice, ostensibly to support the group’s efforts to back Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement negotiations. But OneVoice used the money to build a voter database, train activists and hire a political consulting firm with ties to President Obama’s campaign — all of which set the stage for an anti-Netanyahu campaign, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said in a bipartisan staff report.
In one stunning finding, the subcommittee said OneVoice even told the State Department’s top diplomat in Jerusalem of its plans in an email, but the official, Consul General Michael Ratney, claims never to have seen them.
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If private citizens or companies did that, they would face federal prosecution under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
He’s our Terrorist in Chief.
When does Congress react to the illegal actions of this cancerous growth?
Hopefully Americans have awakened to the fact that this is not only the worst president in the history of America (and we’ve put up with some lulus that our one party corrupted political system has foisted upon illiterate voters)but is one of the worst leaders in the history of the world!
How these morons can be enchanted by this corrupted, stammering, stuttering piece of garbage is mind-numbing.
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