"According to the special IRS release of AIPAC’s 2009 Schedule B [.pdf] there were only two $5,000-plus donors. Donor number one gave $48,842,187. Donor number two chipped in $13,503,472. This means small donors contributed only $2,261,755 for total year 2009 public support of $64,607,414." Anti-War
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This is cool. Rosen has them tied in knots in court and this has cut down small scale giving from the membership at large. To make up for the loss in donations, AIPAC magically "found" two "individuals" who donated over 62 million dollars in 2009?
A suspicious mind might wonder if these were "laundrymen" for some foreign government or agency. pl
http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2011/08/09/does-aipac-have-only-two-major-donors/
The beaver and MRW, thanks. Even leaving her last name off got me nothing on my obvious noun search string. Go figure.
Stills seems an odd topic for Fox News Group.
Posted by: SAC Brat | 13 August 2011 at 07:29 PM
SAC
The best words that have worked for me so far:
"Israel junket"
Posted by: The beaver | 14 August 2011 at 09:59 AM
Phil Weiss has a good post up on this and related items:
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/08/state-department-beneficiary-memri-is-dedicated-to-bringing-israeli-ideas-about-arab-world-and-iran-into-u-s-establishment.html
Posted by: jr786 | 14 August 2011 at 05:03 PM
Colonel,
How do we the U.S. go about pulling the State Dept. by its short-hairs and having them pull their $200k 'grant' to the Israeli Intel store front MEMRI? Isn't such a 'grant' to a Foreign Intel apparatus not a slap in our U.S. face?
Posted by: J | 14 August 2011 at 05:49 PM
Guess who shares the same IP address as MEMRI- Rita Katz, who closed her S.I.T.E. Institute and opened SITE Intelligence Group.
She was the one who had "advanced" (wink , wink) copies of OBL's tapes. Well, wonder on which projects she is toiling on these days!!!!!!!
Posted by: The beaver | 15 August 2011 at 11:08 AM
Steny Hoyer (D.-MD) led the Democratic congressional delegation, promising lotsa money even if we are going broke. What a guy! Story from the Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=233319
Posted by: Margaret Steinfels | 16 August 2011 at 01:26 PM
Margaret Steinfels,
(Heavy sigh), Alas poor Steny Hoyer is like the small 'a' in 'a-IPAC', 'slient' when it comes to U.S. interests first. And to think it is U.S. citizens who are padding Steny's personal bank accounts, not his Israeli buds like Bibi. Or are they?
Hmmm......do you suppose that Steny is drawing a bigger salary from Bibi -- under the table perhaps?
Posted by: J | 16 August 2011 at 06:33 PM
Colonel,
I unfortunately have not found any additional information to date but will keep you and other forumers posted if I find something.
Posted by: Lee | 22 August 2011 at 08:05 PM
Lee, Phil,
Found one of those GOP freshmen who went on Cantor's Israeli Congressional Junket -- Rep. Nan Hayworth R-19 NY, she even fell all over herself 'gushing' with praises. An ophthalmologist by trade, seems rather naive when it comes to U.S. Foreign Policy and the real Mideast. I'd say she has been amply 'indoctrinated' by the a-IPAC/Likud crowd to be one of their good little sheep dogs.
Here's Rep. Hayworth's article in the NRO
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275594/august-israel-nan-hayworth
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