daily caller
Ethan Barton
11:14 AM 06/01/201
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/01/judicial-watch-sues-state-dept-usaid-for-docs-on-funding-to-soros-foreign-campaigns/[excerpt]
Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for records on funding awarded to George Soros’ Open Society Foundation-Albania, the conservative nonprofit watchdog announced Wednesday.
The suit was filed May 26 after both government agencies failed to respond to Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
The requests sought records related to contracts, grants and any other funding that the State Department and USAID awarded to the Foundation Open Society-Albania. The requests also sought communications between the agencies and the foundation.
“This is our second FOIA lawsuit to uncover the truth about the scandal of Obama administration’s siphoning tax dollars to the Soros operations in Europe,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “We hope and expect the Trump administration to finally let the sunlight in on this growing controversy.”
Six Republican senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson requesting that he investigate the relationship between USAID and the Soros foundations. The senators claim that the federal funds the Open Society Foundations has received have allowed the group to advocate progressive agendas in Macedonia and Albania.
