Posted on 03/14/2017 3:10:20 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Obama admin gave taxpayer money to Soros to spark leftist political revolution
A group of leading senators is calling on newly installed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to immediately launch an investigation into efforts by the Obama administration to sway foreign elections by sending taxpayer funds to "extreme and sometimes violent political activists" that promote leftist causes, according to a copy of the letter.
The lawmakers disclosed multiple conversations with foreign diplomats who outlined active political meddling by the Obama administration's State Department, including the use of taxpayer funds to support leftist causes in Macedonia, Albania, Latin America, and Africa.
A portion of this State Department funding appears to have gone to organizations supported by the controversial liberal billionaire George Soros, according to the letter, which was authored by Republican Sens. Mike Lee (Utah), Jim Inhofe (Okla.), Thom Tillis (N.C.), Ted Cruz (Texas), David Perdue (Ga.), and Bill Cassidy (La.).
The senators are asking Tillerson to launch a full-scale investigation into these funding efforts in order to determine how exactly the Obama administration sought to promote left-leaning causes and political parties across the globe.
The latest disclosures of this activity mirror efforts by the Obama administration to send taxpayer funds to Israeli organizations that opposed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the country's last election.
Political leaders from a range of nations spent months informing the lawmakers about these activities.
"Over the past few months, elected officials and political leaders of foreign nations have been coming to me with disappointing news and reports of U.S. activity in their respective countries," Lee said in a statement. "This includes reports of diplomats playing political favorites, USAID funds supporting extreme and sometimes violent political activists, and the U.S. government working to marginalize the moderates and conservatives in leadership roles."
"This sort of political favoritism from our missions around the world is unacceptable and endangers our bilateral relationships," he said.
The senators are seeking an investigation that would review "all funds associated with promoting democracy and governance and review the programs, accounts, and multiplicity of U.S. entities involved in such activities."
Such an investigation could shed light on the distribution of taxpayer funds to organizations and causes meant to instigate left-leaning political change abroad.
The letter insists that Tillerson should "review how all our tax dollars are being utilized in order to halt activities that are fomenting political unrest, disrespecting national sovereignty and civil society, and ultimately undermine our attempts to build beneficial international relationships."
The lawmakers outline specific evidence of political meddling.
"We have received credible reports that, over the past few years, the U.S. Mission there has actively intervened in the party politics of Macedonia, as well as in the shaping of its media environment and civil society, often favoring left-leaning political groups over others," they wrote.
This activity was pushed by USAID and groups associated with Soros' Open Society Foundations, according to the lawmakers.
The organizations are said to have pushed a "progressive agenda" meant to "invigorate the political left" using taxpayer funds, according the letter.
"Respected leaders from Albania have made similar claims of U.S. diplomats and Soros-backed organizations pushing for certain political outcomes in their country," the lawmakers wrote.
"Time and again, foreign leaders visiting Washington have expressed concerns to us about how American taxpayer funds are being used counterproductively in their respective countries," the lawmakers disclosed, referring to efforts undertaken in Latin America and Africa.
This type of interference in foreign countries must stop immediately, the lawmakers said.
Good. That son of a bitch must not be let off his crimes.
OK, add this to the list of things they promised to do but refuse to enact: tax reform, obamacare repeal.
“Good. That son of a bitch must not be let off his crimes.”
Yeah, but with the Congress involved, you have a group that doesn’t have the mental acuity to get a bent dime out of a Coke machine by pushing the reject lever.
“Good. That son of a bitch must not be let off his crimes.”
Yeah, but with the Congress involved, you have a group that doesn’t have the mental acuity to get a bent dime out of a Coke machine by pushing the reject lever.
Handing Libya over to al Qaeda could be considered meddling in foreign ‘elections’.
How can the president give federal money to George Soros without an appropriation for that puspose by Congress???
Andrea Mitchell and Hillary described it as “R2P! R2P!”
(Samantha Power’s “Responsibility To Protect!”
U.S. Congress earmarks $4 mln for political parties in Russia : 2004
How can the president give federal money to George Soros without an appropriation for that puspose by Congress???
That was Obama Cash Stash
All that mean they’ll count the credit card/money/contributions from GAZA from way back when and find OBOZO guilty of ‘foreign money’ in a USA election ??
What about meddling inUS elections? Tapping Trump, Black Panther occupation of public places etc...
Desperate loser lib nut cases gave him the keys...
FINALLY. It comes out. I’m sure the MSM will report this as much as the fake Russia/Trump connection they have been spewing for months. How hypocritical! But then again they will say it’s OK if our government does it.
Finally, and I’m glad to see Bill Cassidy (La.) is finally do something right as well.
Funny thing is Gaddafi didn’t even need to have WMD’s.
I look for patterns and connections....Sometimes bordering conspiracy theory, but most are thought exercises. Is there a connection with Barry threatening the UK that they would ‘go to the back of the queue’ for trade deals, then attempted to influence the BREXIT vote, and his engineering of the UK to spy on Trump with a scheme that would allow plausible deniability?
They HAVE to do things like this to those who would destroy Trump if they could... this side have to go on the offense and stay on the ready as long as the libs/dems/commies are not beaten back so bad, they can’t attack.
All these investigations of Obama mean nothing. Even if they find the goods on him, no action is ever taken. All smoke and mirrors.
Certainly CNN will run with this nonstop any minute now.
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