STUNNING BETRAYAL : Obama Spent Taxpayer Funds to Try to Oust Netanyahu
In hindsight, Obama’s last minute backstabbing of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu makes more sense when you remember he spent taxpayer money to try to get him ousted.
Like nearly everything else Obama fought for, like Brexit and Hillary, Obama lost and Netanyahu survived reelection.
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.
He said he regularly deleted emails with large attachments — a striking violation of open-records laws for a department already reeling from former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s handling of official government records.
Mr. Netanyahu survived the election, and the U.S. spending was not deemed illegal because the State Department never put any conditions on the money. Investigators also said OneVoice didn’t turn explicitly political until days after the grant period ended.
“The State Department ignored warnings signs and funded a politically active group in a politically sensitive environment with inadequate safeguards,” said Sen. Rob Portman, chairman of the investigative subcommittee. “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 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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I hope just some of obama’s crimes come to light and he is held accountable in the court of law and we Deplorables get the justice we all deserve seeing him in a jail cell.
I’m sure Obama won’t mind when Trump spends taxpayer money trying to out Merkel in German y then too. Down with the last Globalist piggy.
People, it said they didn’t turn political till the grant period was over…..and Israel doesn’t have clean hands n the regon they consistantly build housing for Jews in Palistinian property. They would push them into the sea.
Let them push them into the sea. They have already been offered a 2 state option for peace by Israel. They turned it down. The Palestinians want it all and Israel gone. They will except nothing less so there is no sense in trying to negotiate with them.
Obama will go down as not only a massive fraud, but as the most dishonest President America has ever had. He is a new breed of dishonest, along with Hillary. But then he was known as a pathological Liar by his peers in school. Taxpayer money will need to be returned, even for things like the IRS targeting of conservatives. Remember when…Obama said there was not a smidgeon of wrongdoing with IRS activities…before any of 41 witnesses were heard?
America needs a refund of his campaign expenses, trying to get Hillary elected.
We are sorry, Israel. I didn’t vote for the dude.
“We are sorry, Israel. I didn’t vote for the dude.”
And that is your shame. It is unlikely there will be another President in your lifetime that will show the class Obama brought to the White House. Your current choice, Trump, has already shown himself to be the United States’ embarrassment to the world. In 4 years it will be interesting to see what you write here…