Congress on Friday launched a wide-ranging probe into a secret Obama administration-funded campaign to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to information exclusively obtained by theWashington Free Beacon.
The probe comes on the heels of an internal government report determining that the State Department provided hundreds of thousands to an organization that plotted to unseat Netanyahu in the country’s 2015 election.
Obama administration officials were found to have deleted emails from State Department accounts containing information about its relationship with OneVoice, the non-profit group that led the effort.
OneVoice, which was awarded $465,000 in U.S. grants through 2014, has been under congressional investigation since 2015, when it was first accused of funneling some of that money to partisan political groups looking to unseat Netanyahu. This type of behavior by non-profit groups is prohibited under U.S. tax law.
A group of nine leading lawmakers led by Sen. David Perdue (R., Ga.) are now formally petitioning the State Department to come clean about the effort and provide answers about how U.S. taxpayer dollars were permitted to be spent on an organization working against the elected leader of America’s closest Middle East ally, according to a readout of the investigation obtained by the Free Beacon.
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no different than russia messing with our election.
ReplyDeleteThe difference is we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard. We are better than Russia. We really are one of the greatest nations, despite the garbage we have as president now. I believe it will get better.
ReplyDeletewith out trump it will more of the same.
ReplyDeleteWho owns OneVoice?
ReplyDeleteMost likely some Jewish interests who disagree with Netanyahu's despotic murder of Palestinians.
And all we do is bitch about Russia, i would have rather had bengermin Netanyahu as a president that the current administration at least he is respected.
ReplyDeleteRussia is in no way messing with our elections, the DNC emails, or anything else! These are all the DNC saying, "Hey, look over there!"
ReplyDeletePutin doesn't care who becomes our President, and less about Netenyahu. The Dems are grabbing at straws to sway attention away from Hillary's obviously serious health crisis that may keep her from even attending the debates, much less an election or news conference. Hillary's brain is on life support, and she may not last very long.
My daughter could probably hack the DNC email system, and what was found is a total embarrassment to the DNC.
WHY?
Well, when you get caught cheating and lying, getting hacked really is sucky!
Hack mine, it will just bore you!