US Whistle-Blower Group Says US State Department Had Funded FFF (Liz Cheney connection)

[sabra]

Source: Malaysian National News Agency

KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 (Bernama) -- The Government Accountability Project (GAP), a Washington DC non-governmental whistle-blower organisation, has revealed that the Foundation for the Future (FFF), an organisation once headed by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, was funded by the US government.

In its 42-page report released on July 8, GAP had based its findings on hundreds of documents delivered to it under the US Freedom of Information Act.

GAP said the FFF was actually established and funded by the US Department of State at the behest of Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of then Vice President Dick Cheney, and the Bush administration's neoconservatives.

A report by The Asia Sentinel, an Asian web-based publication, said GAP also found that the FFF was established and operated in a "highly irregular manner" by Bush administration officials and employees, including Shaha Ali Riza.

Shaha had been identified as the girlfriend of Paul Wolfowitz, and the latter was forced to leave the World Bank as its president in June 2007 after it became known that he had promoted Shaha to triple the World Bank's salary guidelines.

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GAP said the great multilateral effort devolved into a unilateral US initiative supported only by a few countries, and eventually the major proportion of funding came from the US, in violation of the spirit of the legislation in creating the foundation.

Read more: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=514856

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Full GAP report here: http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/31-2010/645-report-exposes-irregularities-of-obscure-state-department-funded-organization

Report Exposes Irregularities of Obscure State Department-Funded Organization

Details Questionable Roles of Liz Cheney, Shaha Riza, and Others in Multi-Million Dollar Program

(Washington, D.C.) – A report released by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), based on documents obtained through nearly three years’ of U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, exposes the highly irregular manner in which the Foundation for the Future (FFF) – an obscure project funded by the U.S. Department of State – was established and operated by Bush administration officials and appointees.

Specifically, the report details how high-level State Department officials misled Congress as they sought millions in public money for the Foundation, which was a haven for people with political connections. The report also shows that FFF was a pet project of Elizabeth Cheney, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Cheney worked to set up the Foundation with Shaha Riza, Paul Wolfowitz’s companion whose seconding to the State Department (and then to the FFF) was directly responsible for the 2007 World Bank scandal that resulted in Wolfowitz’s departure from the Bank.

“Liz Cheney had the preposterous idea that the Foundation for the Future would bring peace and democracy to the Middle East,” said GAP International Program Officer Shelley Walden, author of the report. “This overlong project wasted millions of taxpayer dollars.”

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GAP’s report shows that the FFF was almost entirely financed and monitored by the U.S. government, even though the Bush administration repeatedly portrayed it to Congress as a multilateral, non-governmental organization created in response to democratic demands from grassroots organizations. Documents also show that the Bush administration intended to use the Foundation as a vehicle through which to demonstrate its purported commitment to democratic processes and human rights abroad, at a time when President Bush was subjected to increasing criticism for human rights violations in Iraq, Afghanistan, “black sites” around the world and Guantánamo Bay.

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GAP’s report also suggests that FFF management – including former FFF Chairman (and close friend of Paul Wolfowitz) Anwar Ibrahim, who is currently a Malaysian parliamentarian – misled the US Internal Revenue Service. The FFF’s financial statements for 2006 and 2007 state that the Foundation did not attempt to influence national legislation, an assertion contradicted by the cables and reports released by the Department of State. These documents suggest that several Foundation representatives actively lobbied the US Congress in 2006-07 for legislative changes favorable to the FFF.

[Doctor_J]

1. The Cheney family is probably the most toxic in the country's history

or maybe second to the Bush family.

[tomp]

10. bush family are the clear winners in that matchup.

cheney himself clearly is always in contention for most evil person ever, but as far as families go
there are others who probably surpass the cheneys simply by longevity, e.g., rockefeller

[asjr]

2. My, my, Liz just may get a slap on the wrist!

[Beavker]

3. Oh, those wiley fiscal conservatives...

...golly, they are really what we need right now.

If the moron U.S. voting public puts these guys back in power in a couple years, they are going to bilk the taxpayer for all it's worth. They spend just as much as the Dems...they just spend it on things that will benefit themselves and the privaleged few, as opposed to the needy masses. If you can't realize that (which most don't), then I guess we just deserve to be punished.

Take your pick people.

[Frustratedlady]

4. I wonder what Liz made off the group...board member or consultant...

Isn't that how they describe their activities so they can get a hefty paycheck every quarter or so?

It would be interesting to see how many of those clowns feed at the tit of the U.S. Treasury.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Republicon Occultism again...

right down there at the bottom of the scuzzbucket...

[judesedit]

6. Peace and democracy my ass. War of choice and money laundering is more like it

As much as even I would be shocked, I hope the WHOLE truth is exposed while these criminals are still alive so they can be prosecuted to the full extent. If not by our corrupt legal system, by public outcry and ridicule. OJ may have gotten away with murder in court, but in reality has to live in a world of his peers and critics, when not incarcerated that is. For him jail may be a far more peaceful place. If the Bushes and the Cheneys are guilty of stealing millions in tax dollars, along with multiple war crimes, so be their futures directed. And since they are known internationally, having caused hell, havoc, destruction, devastation, torture and war by choice the world over, they can never truly escape their torment without literally changing their whole appearances. And even then....if one person finds out who they are....may justice prevail. Of course, they'll have their defenders, of the same ilk, but even they will run out of excuses for them. Then they have eternity to face alone. What goes around, comes around. It's the law of balance.

[Solly Mack]

7. k/r

hmmm

[Mika]

8. As her daddy said: "sometimes we'll have to go to the dark side".

Freedumb fighting is a dirty affair.

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[formercia]

9. Her Majesty the Queen knows better.

You can see it in her eyes.