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Weekly Update: JW Exposes Tax Dollars for Soros
Judicial Watch ^ | April 6, 2018 | Tom Fitton

Posted on 04/07/2018 8:50:12 AM PDT by jazusamo

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Obama Administration Funded Soros’ Left-Wing Activities in Albania

Last week, I reported to you on our efforts to expose the Obama administration’s funding of George Soros’ left-wing political activities in Romania and Colombia. I also noted that we were pursuing his actions in Albania.

This week I’m pleased to say that we have results. We have obtained 32 pages of records showing that the Obama administration sent U.S. taxpayers’ funds to a Soros-backed group that used the money to fund left-wing political activities in Albania. That included working with the country’s socialist government to push for highly controversial judicial “reform.” The records also detail how the Soros operation helped the State Department review grant applications from other groups for taxpayer funding.

We obtained the records in our May 26, 2017, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) after both the State Department and USAID failed to respond to our March 31, 2017, FOIA requests ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (No. 1:17-cv-01012)). We agreed to dismiss the lawsuit after we finally received the documents and payment of attorneys’ fees.

The new documents show USAID funds were funneled through that agency’s Civil Society Project to back Soros’ left-wing Open Society Foundations in Albania, particularly the Soros operation efforts to give the socialist government greater control of the judiciary. USAID reportedly gave $9 million in 2016 to the “Justice for All” campaign, which is overseen by Soros’ “East West Management Institute.”

In March 2017 a group of six U.S. Senators led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) sent a letter to then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking that he investigate charges that the U.S. government was using taxpayer funds to assist Soros in Albania. The letter said: “Foundation Open Society-Albania and its experts, with funding from USAID, have created the controversial Strategy Document for Albanian Judicial Reform. Some leaders believe that these ‘reforms’ are ultimately aimed to give the Prime Minister and left-of-center government full control over the judiciary.” In the Albanian parliament, opposition leaders have labeled the Strategy “a Soros-sponsored reform.”

The new records we released include an April 2016 memo from the U.S. Embassy in Tirana that reveals that the embassy “sponsored” a survey along with Soros’ Open Society Foundation to measure Albanian citizens’ “knowledge, support, and expectations on justice reform.” The Soros group survey reported that “91% of respondents either ‘fully support’ or ‘somewhat support’ the need for judicial reform.” The poll did not specify the type of reform the Soros group was seeking.

Also, records dated February 2017 show that the State Department used taxpayer funds to co-sponsor a second poll with the Open Society Foundation on judicial reforms that would essentially solidify the left’s control of the Albanian government. The report notes that the U.S. Embassy’s Public Affairs Section and the Open Society Foundation “each provided funding to a local organization to conduct a public opinion poll on attitudes towards the Judicial Reform effort.”

The records also reveal that the State Department gave the Soros organization direct input for its own program funding reviews in Albania. The February 10, 2017, report on “Engagement with the Open Society Foundation for Albania” notes that “As one of the major assistance providers in Albania, representatives from the Open Society Foundation are frequently asked to participate in technical reviews of application [sic] that we receive for funding.”

U.S. Ambassador to Albania Donald Lu, a holdover from the Obama administration, has been closely linked to Soros and the socialist government in Albania. In May 2017, Lu helped undermine Albanian opposition party plans to protest the upcoming parliamentary election by declaring that the U.S. would recognize the election results even if opposition parties refused to participate. Lu has been described in the U.S. press as “a driving force behind Albania’s judicial reforms.”

The Obama administration quietly spent at least $9 million in U.S. taxpayers’ dollars in direct collusion with left-wing billionaire George Soros’ backing of a socialist government in Albania. It is particularly outrageous that the State Department allowed the Soros operation to help direct taxpayer funds to other groups. George Soros is a billionaire, and he shouldn’t be receiving taxpayer support to advance his radical left agenda to undermine freedom here at home and abroad.

We have more Soros-related lawsuits pending, so I expect we will have more to report to you on the scandal in the coming months.

Mueller’s Russia Probe is Out of Control

Continued


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: albania; choiceneighborhoods; doj; fbi; georgesoros; hud; judicialwatch; jw; manafort; mueller; obama; rosenstein; russia; soros; specialcounsel; statedept; tomfitton; usaid; weeklyupdate

1 posted on 04/07/2018 8:50:13 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Why doesn’t sore ass create real jobs? /R


2 posted on 04/07/2018 8:56:28 AM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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To: jazusamo

So who was POTUS for 8 years...Soros or the Muslim Brotherhood?


3 posted on 04/07/2018 8:57:14 AM PDT by Aria
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To: Grampa Dave; GOPJ; Diana in Wisconsin; ColdOne; Art in Idaho; Conservative Gato; ptsal; onyx; ...

Off the Wall Ping!

Contact to be added.


4 posted on 04/07/2018 8:57:42 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Aria

Soros is the NWO hand up Hussein’s rear end working the mouth. ValJar is his muzzie handler. Ayers is his commie adviser. Moochie is his hetero cover.


5 posted on 04/07/2018 9:28:36 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: polymuser

Soros is the NWO hand up Hussein’s rear end working the mouth. ValJar is his muzzie handler. Ayers is his commie adviser. Moochie is his hetero cover.

How come I agree with you? My sources are undoubtedly different from your, yet our conclusions are markedly similar.

And How Come the MSM is so slow...their hands may be in the same places?


6 posted on 04/07/2018 9:51:19 AM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: Bodega

MSM is chock full of pubic school then university indoctrinated SJWs. They were/are indoctrinated to hate and incapacitate white males, Christians, capitalists, Constitutionalists and now, heterosexuals.

They are domestic enemies of COTUS and America.


7 posted on 04/07/2018 9:57:31 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: jazusamo

Trump should hand Soros over to Russia, preferably dead. He’s wanted there dead or alive. If he stays alive, he’d never get out of a Russian prison and Putin would probably confiscate every penny he has. And we’d probably have a better diplomatic situation with Russia too...


8 posted on 04/07/2018 10:22:11 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (Shoot low boys, they're ridin' Shetland ponies!)
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To: Paleo Pete

That’d work for me, good riddance.


9 posted on 04/07/2018 10:26:13 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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10 posted on 04/07/2018 10:27:30 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: polymuser; Bodega; jazusamo
This is fake news. The State Dept/US aid is funded by Congress not Obama.

The USA has a long standing foreign policy of humanitarianism, spreading democracy and judicial reforms. This is all done using NGO and it has been going on for a long time, especially since the soviet union collapsed.

Fitton doesn't tell you details, but I will, then you can look it on your own. What he is not telling you is that this is US Aid's Justice for All program, which is extensive around the world, not just in Albania. US Aid has numerous other programs besides Justice for All. US Aid uses many, many contractor NGOs, not just the East West Management Institute that Fitton mentions. And the USA is not the only nation doing this type of stuff. Some OSCE nations are also involved.

11 posted on 04/07/2018 10:46:27 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: All

This _foreign_aid_ must end. It is all borrowed money; or let’s see, _it_ is paid for and national defense is all borrowed money; or _it_ is paid for and all welfare is borrowed money.

A partially funded government is conjuring illusions, pretending that the fraction of a dollar, is equal for each program that it _funds_. In truth, only proper expenditure is funded and all the _modern_ unlawful stuff is not funded at all; it is borrowed; it is conjured.

All lawful expenditures must be fully funded and everything else must be completed eliminated. Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Illusions, only one person in a million can see behind the curtain.


12 posted on 04/07/2018 12:42:43 PM PDT by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: jazusamo

It is known that Soros is a nazi war criminal who entered this country illegally and obtained citizenship by fraudulent means.

Therefore, he can be stripped of his citizenship and handed over to the Russians.

The ensuing interrogation should be most useful in learning new enhanced interrogation techniques.


13 posted on 04/07/2018 1:11:41 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: jazusamo; Liz; SunkenCiv
We have obtained 32 pages of records showing that the Obama administration sent U.S. taxpayers’ funds to a Soros-backed group that used the money to fund left-wing political activities in Albania. That included working with the country’s socialist government to push for highly controversial judicial “reform.” The records also detail how the Soros operation helped the State Department review grant applications from other groups for taxpayer funding.

Is Soros attempting to set himself up as head of the GDS - - Government of the Deep State?

14 posted on 04/08/2018 9:24:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama told people he was Kenyan for the same reason Elizabeth Warren told people she was Indian.)
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To: Ben Ficklin

“The USA has a long standing foreign policy of humanitarianism, spreading democracy and judicial reforms.“

Absolutely none of which is specifically authorized by the US Constitution.

End it all now.

L


15 posted on 04/08/2018 9:28:47 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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