Minutes after Newsweek published a story on the threat of illegal foreign and fraudulent online campaign donations late Monday afternoon, the Obama campaign struck back hard with a response smearing one of the article’s authors and offered an anemic defense of its online fundraising operations.
Earlier today, Breitbart News and myriad news agencies reported on a new 108-page investigation conducted by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) which examines the online donation systems of the entire U.S. Congress and the two presidential candidates. The report found that 47.3% of all House and Senate donation websites do not require online donors to enter their credit card security code (officially known as a CVV, or Card Verification Value), which leaves them vulnerable to foreign and fraudulent contributions.
Governor Mitt Romney’s website requires donors to enter a credit card security code, while President Barack Obama’s does not. The GAI report also revealed that Obama.com is not owned by the president’s campaign but rather by Robert Roche, an American businessman and top Obama fundraiser living in Shanghai, China, whose company has ties to the Chinese government.
Within hours of a Newsweek article on the report’s release, the Obama campaign issued a dismissive response. The Obama campaign’s rapid-fire attack against the report did not mention Robert Roche, Obama.com, the Obama campaign’s failure to require donors to enter their CVV code, or the report’s finding that 68% of the traffic going to Obama.com originates from foreign locations.
Instead, the Obama campaign sought to dismiss report’s findings by calling the group’s president, Peter Schweizer, a “right-wing activist” who previously worked for Governor Sarah Palin.
Read More at breitbart.com . By Wynton Hall.
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What has he promised all those foreign countries now for a vote and a dollar? Will it ever end? When I think I have heard it all here we go again.
Doesn’t he have any scruples or dignity at all? Well never mind I already know the answer to that question.
I just feel so sorry for those 2 poor children,they are getting old enough to see what a scumbag their father is,how can they do that to those innocent girls? Are they being raised to be jihadist,communist or scumbags just like he was? God help them.
At least he has no sons.
Haven’t been to Breitbart yet…but what’s news here? During the 08 farce we had photos of obama’s hamas and hizbollah supporters proudly boasting of their financial support of their idol?
There were lists, hundreds of (phony) names long with “donations” that were untraceable.
Just as there are dead democratic voters, so there were dead obama donors.
Will it make any difference to his chances, will it change any obamatools mind? Well, after 4 years of constant continuous compulsive serial lying, cheating, deceiving, unconstitutional unethical political shenanigans, sabotaged oil-rigs, murdered border agents, supporting muslim terrorists while shunning our allies, refusal to uphold his oath of office, proof of his homosexual, deviant lifestyle – not to mention his total ineptness and ignorance and daily evidence of his disturbed, psychotic sociopath, narcissistic mental state, his arrogance and condescension towards any one who disagrees with him – if after 4 years of that I doubt if this will make any difference to his leeches.