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The USAID Nightmare Continues

From Townhall:

Judicial Watch, meanwhile, was following the money.

In April 2017, the government watchdog filed an open records lawsuit against the U.S. State Department and USAID after both failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records related to grants, payment authorizations, and communications between U.S. officials and all subsidiaries affiliated with Open Society Foundations. Judicial Watch also asked for responsive records of messages sent from Obama appointee Jess L. Baily, the former U.S. ambassador to Macedonia, as well as documents pertaining to the political activities of Open Society Foundation’s Macedonia arm.

Judicial Watch suspected that such meddling in domestic Macedonian political affairs potentially violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a 1961 international treaty that defines the framework for diplomatic relations between independent nations.

According to a Judicial Watch investigation, top Soros representatives in Romania collaborated with the U.S. State Department in an “Open Government Partnership” jointly funded by Open Society Foundations and USAID.

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