Posted on 12/29/2020 5:34:08 PM PST by ransomnote
Non-profit humanitarian agency World Vision United States improperly transacted with the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) in 2014 with approval from the Obama administration, sending government funds to an organization that had been sanctioned over its ties to terrorism, according to a new report.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) recently released a report detailing the findings of an investigation his staff began in February 2019 into the relationship between World Vision and ISRA.
The probe found that World Vision was not aware that ISRA had been sanctioned by the U.S. since 2004 after funneling roughly $5 million to Maktab al-Khidamat, the predecessor to Al-Qaeda controlled by Osama Bid Laden. However, that ignorance was born from insufficient vetting practices, the report said.
“World Vision works to help people in need across the world, and that work is admirable,” Grassley said in a statement. “Though it may not have known that ISRA was on the sanctions list or that it was listed because of its affiliation with terrorism, it should have. Ignorance can’t suffice as an excuse. World Vision’s changes in vetting practices are a good first step, and I look forward to its continued progress.”
The investigation was sparked by a July 2018 National Review article in which Sam Westrop, the director of the Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch, detailed MEF’s findings that the Obama administration had approved a “$200,000 grant of taxpayer money to ISRA.”
Government officials specifically authorized the release of “at least $115,000” of this grant even after learning that it was a designated terror organization, Westrop wrote.
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While everyone has been distracted by the election, Grassley has been at work.
The Senate Finance Committee just released a report saying that Obama knowingly financed Al Qaeda, through an organization known as the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), through World Vision (read: CIA), backed by a massive grant from USAID, and later with approval from the Obama State Department.
Man, look at the seps on the guy in front!
So Obama gave American Taxpayer money to organizations killing Americans and trying to destroy The United States?
So what?
If you’re reading this, then they didn’t kill you, did they?
I’m sure he just wanted them to buy balloons and cakes and stuff.
So much for timely government oversight.
“Not one smidgeon of corruption,” indeed.
That should probably be against the law . . .
Is it just me or is Mike looking more and more like the guy he was born to be?
I pointed that out 6 years ago and was ignored.
We also funneled weapons to “vetted” Jihadists who gave them to Al Qaeda.
Obama hasn’t been put on trial for this why?
p
Is it possible to impeach a shadow President?
Says National Review who did what they could to defeat Trump and install Joe.
Let the games go on
After Benghazi this should be a surprise to no one.
Add that to what the Obama admin sent to Iran, for all practical purposes a cash infusion to Hezbollah.
LOL
Now NR cares! Too late RINOs!
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