If you thought sending a letter to the Iranian Mullahs was bad, this could be worse

[TemplarKormac]

Let this sink in for a moment, you have 47 Senators sending a letter to the Iranian Mullahs letting them know any nuclear deal Obama strikes with them with have to go through the Senate. The backlash is enormous, thus making one wonder if the letter was even worth it (it was).

Now, imagine if you have an American presidential administration possibly attempting to influence the elections of another sovereign nation. This could be the case here, as the U.S. Senate investigatory committee is investigating claims that the Obama Administration is funding efforts to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in this year's Israeli presidential elections. Whoa. Back up. They are accusing the Obama administration of doing what?

Read for yourself:

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 Democratic 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, Ohio Republican and chairman of the committee, declined comment, and aides to ranking Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, of Missouri, did not immediately return calls.

The Senate subcommittee, which has subpoena power, is the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ chief investigative body with jurisdiction over all branches of government operations and compliance with laws.

“The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations does not comment on ongoing investigations,” Portman spokeswoman Caitlin Conant told Foxnews.com.

But a source familiar with the matter confirmed for FoxNews.com that the probe -- undisclosed until now -- was both underway and bipartisan in nature.

Source Senate panel probing possible Obama administration ties to anti-Netanyahu effort Fox News

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I suspect all you will hear is crickets

 

[Freewill]

 

[TemplarKormac]

Ah well, I guess I need to stop posting these kinds of threads, it kinda leaves half the forum speechless.

 

[mikegriffith1]

Most liberals only seem to care about the law or traditional propriety when it's to their advantage.

It has long been apparent to informed supporters of Israel that Obama is either anti-Israeli or lukewarm in his support of Israel, partly because he seems to harbor such strongly pro-Palestinian, pro-Muslim sympathies.

 

[Disir]

And yet, their were crickets with Venezuela and Egypt.

Let's have a look see at the evidence. I find it hard that this particular group of people would so willingly throw the guy under the bus when they have been active in overthrowing governments elsewhere.

 

[Vigilante]

Foxnews ^
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 Democratic 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...

 

[Coyote]

Unnamed sources and no evidence.

Bibi and the Republicans are in bed together. Pathetic.

 

[boedicca]

Jeremy Bird, former Obama staffer, is running the "not Bibi" campaign:


Monday, January 26, 2015
Foreign Funding Bankrolls Anti-Netanyahu Campaign – Flies in 5-Man Obama Team
Foreign Funding Bankrolls Anti-Netanyahu Campaign – Flies in 5-Man Obama
Team

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 26 January 2015
Haaretz reporter Roi Arad revealed in an article in the Hebrew edition
today that the foreign funded organization, “One Voice”, is bankrolling the
V-2015 campaign to defeat Binyamin Netanyahu’s national camp in the March
2015 Knesset Elections.

One indication of the generous financing is that it has now flown in a team
of five American campaign experts (including Jeremy Bird, the Obama
campaign's national field director) who will run the campaign out of offices
taking up the ground floor of a Tel Aviv office building.

V-2015 is careful not to support a specific party - rather “just not Bibi”.
As such, the foreign funds pouring into the campaign are not subject to
Israel’s campaign finance laws.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA
________________________________________
IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis

IMRA - Monday January 26 2015 Foreign Funding Bankrolls Anti-Netanyahu Campaign Flies in 5-Man Obama Team

 

[Coyote]

A former staffer. What's illegal about that?

 

[boedicca]

A former staffer. What's illegal about that?

If Benejamin Netanyahu's former campaign director had run an Anti-Obama campaign in the U.S. in 2012, the Progs would have had a collective stroke.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Unnamed sources and no evidence.

Bibi and the Republicans are in bed together. Pathetic.

Ahh, and this is anger speaking, not Coyote. What would have them do, out their sources?

 

[Vigilante]

 

[Coyote]

Unnamed sources and no evidence.

Bibi and the Republicans are in bed together. Pathetic.

Ahh, and this is anger speaking, not Coyote.

Nope. Coyote. It's a Republican senate committee. Makes you wonder doesn't it? Witch hunt anyone? They've been trying and trying to find something on Obama and it's led nowhere. Benghazi is dead. So let's try this now. A waste of taxpayer money it will likely be.

 

[TemplarKormac]

It's a Republican senate committee.

Perhaps you missed the words "bipartisan probe" at the very beginning of the article. Try again.

"A powerful U.S. Senate investigatory committee has launched a bipartisan probe."

 

[theDoctorisIn]

A former staffer. What's illegal about that?

If Benejamin Netanyahu's former campaign director had run an Anti-Obama campaign in the U.S. in 2012, the Progs would have had a collective stroke.

Why would we care?

I really don't understand what the issue is about this. Campaign staffers work for whoever will pay them. It's capitalism in action. Obama doesn't own them, he's just a former client

 

[B. Kidd]

Oh noes.........not the infernal 'probing'............

 

[Coyote]

It's a Republican senate committee.

Perhaps you missed the words "bipartisan probe" at the very beginning of the article. Try again.

"A powerful U.S. Senate investigatory committee has launched a bipartisan probe."

You are right, I did miss that part.

 

[boedicca]

A former staffer. What's illegal about that?

If Benejamin Netanyahu's former campaign director had run an Anti-Obama campaign in the U.S. in 2012, the Progs would have had a collective stroke.

Why would we care?

I really don't understand what the issue is about this. Campaign staffers work for whoever will pay them. It's capitalism in action. Obama doesn't own them, he's just a former client

It's not surprising you don't care. Moral relativism-hypocrisy runs deep it does...yessss.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Obama doesn't own them, he's just a former client

He's also the President, who drones on about "free and fair elections" but takes part in influencing the elections of another sovereign state.