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PEEK-A-BOO! Soros-Funded Groups Exposed in Gov’t-Financial Sector Surveillance Collusion Scandal
NewsBusters ^ | 3/12/2024 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 03/12/2024 8:21:51 AM PDT by JV3MRC

Two extremist groups financed by billionaire George Soros have been named in the emerging scandal involving federal law enforcement colluding with financial institutions to spy on Americans’ private transactions.

Part of this Orwellian collusion involved federal law enforcement circulating documents to private financial institutions to jawbone them into giving up sensitive customer data, without them necessarily having to be suspected of committing any crimes. One of the scariest examples involved federal law enforcement passing around a 2020 “hate groups” blacklist to financial institutions that included “conservative” and faith-based organizations, according to The Washington Times. The circulated list was drafted in a report by none other than the anti-free speech Soros-funded, U.K.-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the Soros and taxpayer-funded Global Disinformation Index (GDI).

Soros funneled at least $3,149,863 into ISD’s coffers between 2017 and 2022, while Soros gave GDI $150,000 in 2022 alone. GDI — revealed as a leftist and government-backed effort to silence conservative viewpoints by intimidating advertisers — had three members on its board that were tied to Soros, including Soros’ Open Society Initiative for Europe division director Finn Heinrich. The 2020 “hate groups” ISD/GDI list circulated by federal law enforcement specifically targeted groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council, Liberty Counsel, Pacific Justice Institute and Federation for American Immigration Reform.

The House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released a 36-page interim report on March 6, revealing a “mass” government spying effort. “This financial surveillance was not predicated on any specific evidence of particularized criminal conduct and, even worse, it keyed on terms and specific transactions that concerned core political and religious expression protected by the Constitution.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; collusion; defunddhs; dhs; fbi; finnheinrich; gdi; georgeorwell; georgesoros; govtweaponized; isd; marxisttyranny; mi6; orwellian; privacy; soros; spying; ukisamericasenemy

1 posted on 03/12/2024 8:21:51 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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The AMAZING CONNECTION between, rogue state prosecutors,
Ukraine, Israel, US tax dollars....... and George Soros:

The Senate’s recent passage of the Biden funding bill made George Soros very happy.
Suggests laundered tax dollars are an income source for Soros’ financing leftist tripe in the US govt. Read on.


J Street Lobby Rallies The troops
On Friday, Oct 20th, 2023, the Biden Administration sent a Supplemental Funding Request to the US Congress that contains key priorities for the American Jewish community:

Please urge your federal elected officials to take action by sending an email below or picking up the phone to call using the script at the end of this form. Your advocacy will help ensure Congress passes the Supplemental Budget Request, which includes the following:

<><>$14.3 Billion in Emergency assistance to Israel: This emergency assistance will bolster Israel’s ability to defend herself and replenish vital defense systems, including the Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense programs.

<><>Increased Funding for FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP): Jewish communities are in a state of elevated readiness and have already been forced to increase their security measure. FEMA’s Nonprofit “Security Grant Program” helps ensure the safety and security of Jewish and other faith-based community institutions. The increased funding included in Biden’s Supplemental Budget Request will help bolster our Jewish community’s capacity to protect itself at this challenging time.

<><>$61.4 Billion in Emergency Assistance to Ukraine: The J Street Lobby stands in solidarity with Ukraine and supports efforts to strengthen its democracy in the face of aggression. This funding will aid Ukraine’s efforts to safeguard its democracy and protect its citizens. Jewish Federations are actively engaged in supporting the Ukrainian people—including by resettling over 2,600 displaced Ukrainians across the United States—and we seek continued U.S. support for these critical efforts.


Reference-——

J street Lobby Policy outlines on the US-Israel Special Relationship
(with the financial help of $750 million from George Soros).

J Street believes that maintaining a strong, vibrant US-Israel relationship is a core American interest. We want to see a secure, thriving Israel that is a healthy democracy, a national home for the Jewish people and a state for all its citizens that embodies the shared values that have long formed the heart of the special relationship between our two countries. We believe that American diplomatic leadership has an important role to play in helping to make this vision a reality, as does cooperation in (financing) Israel’s security, economic, technological, academic and civil society spheres.


REFERENCE
Confidential IRS documents obtained by The Washington Times in 2010 showed that George Soros had been a donor to J Street since 2008. The approximately $750,000 from Soros and his family, together with donations from Hong Kong-based businesswoman Ms. Consolacion Esdicul, amounted to about 15% of J Street’s funding in its early years.

In previous statements and on its web site J Street had seemed to deny receiving support from foreign interests and from Soros.

Jeremy Ben-Ami apologized for earlier “misleading” statements regarding funding from Soros. Ben-Ami also clarified that donors to 501(c)(4) organizations are promised confidentiality by law and challenged critics to make public the contributions from opposing organizations.


2 posted on 03/12/2024 8:31:11 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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2010

Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and president of J Street, the liberal Jewish group, e-mailed Goldblog last night: “Reports of our demise (including from you) are greatly exaggerated....” He was referring to a question I posted earlier in the day: “Will J Street even be around in its current form in coming days, now that it is enveloped in a scandal (more of a cover-up than a crime, in the traditional Washington style)?”

The scandal grows from a decision by Jeremy Ben-Ami to cover-up, over a long period of time, something he knew to be true: That George Soros, the billionaire investor and non-friend of Israel, provided J Street with almost $750,000 in funding. James Besser, at The New York Jewish Week, frames the impact of this cover-up in stark and simple terms:

There’s no way this isn’t going to make the politicians supported by J Street and those who may be considering accepting its endorsement incredibly nervous. Instead of providing protection for the politicians they supported, J Street essentially hung them out to dry - not by accepting Soros money, but by lying about their connection to the controversial philanthropist.

And there’s no way this doesn’t sow mistrust among commentators and reporters who write and speak about J Street, and who were repeatedly misled by its officials. J Street sought to create a climate of trust with a press corps that was being spun heavily by its opponents; this news undoes a lot of that effort.

An Atlantic reporter, Chris Good, was one of the journalists lied to by J Street; he ripped the organization a new one once he learned he was the target of a disinformation campaign.

News of the Soros donation, first brought to light by Eli Lake of the Washington Times, was accompanied by disclosures about a larger, and stranger, donation, by a resident of Hong Kong named Consolacion Escidul, who according to Ben-Ami, is a “business associate” of a prominent J Street supporter named William Benter, a well-known Hong Kong-based horse bettor.

Escidul is responsible for contributing seven percent of all the money collected by J Street since its founding, but nothing is known about Escidul, or about the sources of her wealth, but the mere fact that she is not, as far as anyone can tell, an American citizen has J Street supporters on Capitol Hill worried that the organization is using foreign money to provide help to American political candidates.


3 posted on 03/12/2024 8:33:51 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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BTTT


4 posted on 03/12/2024 9:11:42 AM PDT by nopardons
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Bookmark


5 posted on 03/12/2024 9:17:33 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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I wonder if Letitia James used this. Maybe nobody will ever know.


6 posted on 03/12/2024 10:04:20 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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She’ll use anything to get ahead.


7 posted on 03/12/2024 10:08:12 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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The AMAZING CONNECTION between, rogue state prosecutors, Ukraine, Israel, US tax dollars....... and George Soros:

On one of my many trips to Kyiv, I learned Ukrainians called the US Embassy “The Soros Embassy.”

8 posted on 03/12/2024 11:01:43 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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“Back The Blue”....and Soros too.


9 posted on 03/12/2024 11:16:19 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

Very interesting.


10 posted on 03/12/2024 11:16:57 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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