Posted on 12/13/2016 8:43:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
According to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), the State Department gave $349,276 in U.S. taxpayer-funded grants to a political group in Israel to build a campaign operation, which subsequently was used to try to influence Israelis to vote against conservative Benjamin Netanyahu in the March 2015 election for prime minister.
In the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report about the State Department’s action, Chairman Bob Portman (R-Ohio) said, “It is completely unacceptable that U.S. taxpayer dollars were used to build a political campaign infrastructure that was deployed — immediately after the grant ended — against the leader [Netanyahu] of our closest ally in the Middle East. American resources should be used to help our allies in the region, not undermine them.” …
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You mean a “Foreign Government” was trying to influence a free and democratic election??
Libs always accuse others of what they are actually doing.
This sounds illegal. Am I wrong?
And this meme will be beat daily into the American sheeple? NOT!
Only TRUMP gets the CIA to help him as Dastardly Don the magnificant!
That’s why State needs a solid deputy secty that knows its inner secrets
If the State Department has that much money hanging around to give to political groups outside or inside the US, they has too much money in their budget and that very budget needs to be drastically reduced. Some VERY HEAVY restrictions need to be put on what they can spend on. Tighten the noose and continue to drain the swamp.
Wow!
When will the WaPo have this True News on their front page?
Oh they do lots of lefty things. This is small potatoes
Ha! THIS is the guy who wants to blame Russia because they interfered with the US Presidential election?
Obama needs to STFU and just go away.
And President Trump really needs to shitcan so many leftist federal obama lackeys, that it actually causes an uptick in the unemployment rate.
Like you, I’m utterly shocked!
(I pointed that out in an earlier post, along with the fact that Assange was the darling of the left when he was reporting on the GW Bush White House. Now he’s a pariah.)
I'm shocked.
There is nothing wrong with the U.S. trying to influence this or that foreign election. The problem is backing the wrong guy against the right guy.
And that’s not all...
http://www.politico.eu/article/barack-obama-to-visit-uk-to-argue-against-brexit/
And that’s not all...
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-israel-election-benjamin-netanyahu/2016/07/12/id/738318/
And THATS not all
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-angela-merkel-reelection_us_582de179e4b099512f814823
There isn’t?
Then there’s nothing wrong with foreign governments trying to influence our elections either?
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