Congressional Probe Launched Into White House and State Dept. Interference With Israeli Election
At the end of January the first reports surfaced of a coordinated effort between the White House and State Department to use the construct of OFA (Organizing For America), the activist group who spearheaded the voter activity for President Obama, to assist an Israeli opposition group known as V15.
V15 is described as a “grassroots” movement intended to remove Benjamin Netanyahu from office. The national field director from President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, Jeremy Bird, went to Israel to assist V15 in the mirror image campaign strategy and message of OFA.
OFA was/is the Astroturf political movement funded by Large Democrat Donors and Left-Wing Organizations which helped elect President Barack Obama.
The U.S. State Department gave money to V15 for use in Israel. V15 is supporting Netanyahu’s opponent, Isaac Herzog. V15 is saying they are not using the money from the State Dept, delivered via OneVoice, to eliminate Netanyahu, but rather just to help their GOTV organizational efforts.
However, simultaneous to Jeremy Bird joining the V15 movement, Joe Biden and John Kerry met with Isaac Herzog in Germany. It is brutally obvious Joe Biden and John Kerry, along with the White House and State Department, are trying to remove Benjamin Netanyahu. Now a congressional probe has been launched.
(Via Fox) A powerful U.S. Senate investigatory committee has launched a bipartisan probe into an American nonprofit’s funding of efforts to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Obama administration’s State Department gave the nonprofit taxpayer-funded grants, a source with knowledge of the panel’s activities told FoxNews.com.
The fact that both Democrat and Republican sides of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations have signed off on the probe could be seen as a rebuke to President Obama, who has had a well-documented adversarial relationship with the Israeli leader.
The development comes as Netanyahu told Israel’s Channel Two television station this week that there were “governments” that wanted to help with the “Just Not Bibi” campaigning – Bibi being the Israeli leader’s nickname.
It also follows a FoxNews.com report on claims the Obama administration has been meddling in the Israeli election on behalf of groups hostile to Netanyahu. A spokesperson for Sen. Rob Portman, (R-Ohio), the chair of the committee, refused comment, and aides to ranking Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill, of Missouri, did not immediately return calls.
