Team Obama pulled as many strings as it could to defeat Netanyahu.  They used Victory 15 and One Voice Movement- a U.S. tax-exempt organization with a subsidiary in Israel that actively worked against Netanyahu.  One Voice apparently used $350,000 in State Department grants to fund its anti-Netanyahu efforts in direct contravention with U.S. law.

We should expect a congressional investigation of the “dark money” the U.S. government may have indirectly spent in Israel.

Reps. Mike Bost and Randy Hultgren, two GOP House members from Illinois, have joined 18 of their colleagues in sending a letter calling on Bird and other Obama operatives to give a full accounting of their activities: “As Members of Congress, we are greatly concerned to hear allegations of our own State Department spending American tax dollars that were then used to influence foreign elections.”

“Israeli elections should be left to the citizens of Israel and not the influence of U.S. taxpayer-funded grants which may be considered illegal . . . We implore that One Voice provide the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Rob Portman and Ranking Member Claire McCaskill a full accounting of their funding of Victory 15 and their political campaigning which appears to have as its objective to impact the outcome of the Israeli elections,” the statement went on to say. 

“Promotional and website information, including their slogan, ‘replace the government,’ provide clear indication of election organizing, beyond the legal status of a not-for-profit organization.”