Collusion was a DNC/Hillary/Obama projection

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The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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It’s part of a pattern of bad behavior at the State Department.

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The Government Accountability Office reviewed more than five dozen department grants and found officials cut corners and missed red flags in 80 percent of them.

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The Senate investigation found that the State Department funded two sister groups — OneVoice Israel and OneVoice Palestine — to hire a U.S. political consulting firm, recruit volunteers, build a social media network and run advertising.

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OneVoice told at least two State Department officials of its political plans, even as it was collecting taxpayer money. But the department “took no action in response,”

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the State Department should have written a specific prohibition against using American money to influence a foreign election

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“The State Department ignored warnings signs and funded a politically active group with inadequate safeguards,” said Sen. Rob Portman. “It is completely unacceptable that U.S. taxpayer dollars were used to build a political campaign infrastructure that was deployed against the leader of our closest ally in the Middle East. American resources should be used to help our allies in the region, not undermine them.”

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Mr. Ratney later told investigators he regularly deleted emails with attachments “in order to maintain my inbox under the storage limit.” He told investigators he “did not know [he] was required to archive routine emails.”

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He said he regularly deleted emails with large attachments — a striking violation of open-records laws for a department already reeling from former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s handling of official government records.

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Sen. Claire McCaskill, the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, said the Obama administration followed the law. But she said their investigation exposed “deficiencies” in the State Department’s policies.

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