🧵🧵Samantha Power, USAID and the funding of Hamas prior to 10/7 and after:
Current and former state department officials who worked closely with USAID have come forward to talk about how this agency has funneled millions and millions of dollars to anti-Israel advocacy groups and entities with known ties to terrorism.
The Washington Free Beacon lays it all out and connects it directly to Samantha Power.
Not only that but USAID actually tried to conceal how taxpayer funds were spent and caused friction within the first Trump administration and even some elements of the Biden administration.
Current and former state department officials who worked closely with USAID have come forward to talk about how this agency has funneled millions and millions of dollars to anti-Israel advocacy groups and entities with known ties to terrorism.
The Washington Free Beacon lays it all out and connects it directly to Samantha Power.
Not only that but USAID actually tried to conceal how taxpayer funds were spent and caused friction within the first Trump administration and even some elements of the Biden administration.
Examples:
1. November 2022 - 100,000 to an activist group whose leaders hail the popular front for the liberation of Palestine, which is a known and designated terror group.
2. 10/1 (6 days before the attack) USAID gave $900,000 to a charity in Gaza involved with Ismail Haniyeh, the son of the leader of Hamas.
3. In January 2024 inspector general Paul Martin issued a report that stated the agency does not maintain a comprehensive internal database of sub awards so that the foreign entities that work with a primary grantee go unreported.
4. In a November report, the inspector general identified deliberate interference and efforts to divert humanitarian assistance by foreign terrorist organizations, including systemic coercion of aid workers by federal terrorist organizations who influenced beneficiary selection.
5. A February report from the Middle East Forum found that USAID awarded millions of federal dollars to organizations directly in Gaza that are controlled by Hamas.
6. In 2019, USAID provided PCFR 90,000 as a sub grant of Catholic relief services.
1. November 2022 - 100,000 to an activist group whose leaders hail the popular front for the liberation of Palestine, which is a known and designated terror group.
2. 10/1 (6 days before the attack) USAID gave $900,000 to a charity in Gaza involved with Ismail Haniyeh, the son of the leader of Hamas.
3. In January 2024 inspector general Paul Martin issued a report that stated the agency does not maintain a comprehensive internal database of sub awards so that the foreign entities that work with a primary grantee go unreported.
4. In a November report, the inspector general identified deliberate interference and efforts to divert humanitarian assistance by foreign terrorist organizations, including systemic coercion of aid workers by federal terrorist organizations who influenced beneficiary selection.
5. A February report from the Middle East Forum found that USAID awarded millions of federal dollars to organizations directly in Gaza that are controlled by Hamas.
6. In 2019, USAID provided PCFR 90,000 as a sub grant of Catholic relief services.
7. In 2023, Its Together Project received a grant for $2.6 million in 2024 from USAID, and they received $3.7 million in 2023. These people work closely with prominent extremists and organized events with Hamas linked activists and academics to circulate anti-Semitic propaganda about the supposed Jewish control of American universities by Ashkenazi Jews.
Its Together Project published a tool kit that teaches its members how to control negative press by promoting alternative messages and new narratives, and by tying any real criticism of its members to fake news, Internet trolls, and Russian interference in the 2016 election.
They also lobbied the house and Senate to push for the weakening of terror finance laws and met with lawmakers from key committees to lobby against legislation targeting terror financing in South Asia.
Its Together Project published a tool kit that teaches its members how to control negative press by promoting alternative messages and new narratives, and by tying any real criticism of its members to fake news, Internet trolls, and Russian interference in the 2016 election.
They also lobbied the house and Senate to push for the weakening of terror finance laws and met with lawmakers from key committees to lobby against legislation targeting terror financing in South Asia.
8. In January, NGO Monitor outlined the millions of dollars USD was funding for 2 nonprofits: Mercy Corps and American Near East Refugee Aid. These two nonprofits coordinated with a Gaza base ministry run by senior Hamas officials.
In 2021, the Biden State Department issued an internal warning that there was a high risk, Hamas would steal US aid if the shipments had been reinstated. However, when members of Congress pressed USAID about those grants, they refused to answer questions, and obstructed Justice.
@SenJoniErnst addressed some of her concerns when she wrote a letter to Marco Rubio about how USAID willfully and falsely claimed grants were classified to limit congressional oversight of this public information.
Samantha Power herself often lobbied from within the administration to stop pro-Israel policy making at the state department and urged colleagues to pair down statements that praised the Jewish state.
In 2021, when there was a period of conflict with Hamas, and Power refused to meet with Israel’s ambassador, unless Israel reached a cease-fire with the Iran backed to terror group. This decision actually put her at odds with Biden‘s White House national Security Council.
After the 10/7 attack, Power accused Israel of deliberately blocking aid deliveries, even though internal emails obtained by WFB eshow that internal state department documents warned the administration that Hamas was raiding aid packages.
Despite all that, staffers who worked at USAID publicly asked Biden to end military aid to Israel.
We pretty much funded the 10/7 attack on Israel and even Biden’s own state department couldn’t reign in this disastrous agency. And that should scare everybody.
@SenJoniErnst addressed some of her concerns when she wrote a letter to Marco Rubio about how USAID willfully and falsely claimed grants were classified to limit congressional oversight of this public information.
Samantha Power herself often lobbied from within the administration to stop pro-Israel policy making at the state department and urged colleagues to pair down statements that praised the Jewish state.
In 2021, when there was a period of conflict with Hamas, and Power refused to meet with Israel’s ambassador, unless Israel reached a cease-fire with the Iran backed to terror group. This decision actually put her at odds with Biden‘s White House national Security Council.
After the 10/7 attack, Power accused Israel of deliberately blocking aid deliveries, even though internal emails obtained by WFB eshow that internal state department documents warned the administration that Hamas was raiding aid packages.
Despite all that, staffers who worked at USAID publicly asked Biden to end military aid to Israel.
We pretty much funded the 10/7 attack on Israel and even Biden’s own state department couldn’t reign in this disastrous agency. And that should scare everybody.
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