QATAR + UAE + OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES = FUND USA THINK TANKS TO GAIN FAVORS WITH USA CONGRESS AND OTHERS

Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Center for Global Development Think Tank = USE THEM AS UNBIASED SOURCE FOR USA GOVERNMENT DECISION MAKING = BUT WHO PUT OUT DISTORTED AND BIASED LIES!

By ERIC LIPTON, BROOKE WILLIAMS and NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
SEPT. 6, 2014, in NYT

Click for Source NYT article By above authors

Norway is pushing White House + Treasury + Congress to double US foreign aid. = $6 BILLION/YEAR OF USA MIDDLE CLASS MONEY TO ISRAEL?

Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs PAID $5 Million to the Center for Global Development, a nonprofit think tank in Washington relied upon by lawmakers, government officials and the news media to provide independent policy analysis and scholarship.

12+ Prominent Washington THINK TANKS received $10s of Millions from foreign governments to CHANGE USA POLICIES TO FAVOR THESE FOREIGN STATES. — NYT = THINK TANKS = SECRET MUSCULAR-ARM of foreign governments = LIKE AIPAC

THINK TANKS = DO NOT REGISTER with USA GOV as FOREIGN AGENCIES = A violation of federal law SAY legal specialists

THINK TANKS = Policy makers who rely on THEM are often unaware of foreign ROLE in GAMING RESEARCH.

AIPAC PRO-ISRAEL OWNS 100% OF SENATE + 98% OF HOUSE!

SO WHY NOT THINK TANKS BEING OWNED BY ISREAL AND AIPAC?

The arrangements between the countries and think tanks “opened a whole new window into an aspect of the influence-buying in Washington that has not previously been exposed.  It is particularly egregious because with a law firm or lobbying firm, you expect them to be an advocate. Think tanks have this patina of academic neutrality and objectivity, and that is being compromised.” — Sandler

QATAR + BIG OIL MONARCHS LIES = THINK TANKS PAID TO BE BIASED = Brookings Institution + Center for Strategic and International Studies + Atlantic Council = Major overseas funds to produce BIASED policy papers helping foreign governments’ agendas. Europe + Israel-Middle East + Asia + BIG OIL MONARCHS (BIG SPENDERS) = United Arab Emirates ($1+ Million = NOW HOME of Eric Prince of BLACKWATER + HAS NEW MERCENARY TRAINING NOW – PERFECT FOR ISIS) + Qatar ($3+ BILLION TO ISIL = $14.8 Million to Brookings CROOKS)

BROOKINGS = QATAR = $14.8 Million in LIES TO HIDE QATAR’s $3 BILLION in ISIS(L) FUNDING = TO COVERUP AND FEED LIES TO AMERICANS AND CONGRESS! + THINK TANKS PAID TO NOT CRITICIZE DONOR GOVERNMENTS!

BROOKINGS = NO INTEGRITY = BIASED RESULTS = “If a member of Congress is using the Brookings reports, they should be aware — they are not getting the full story. They may not be getting a false story, but they are not getting the full story.”

— Saleem Ali, visiting fellow at Brookings Doha Center in Qatar was told during his job interview that he could not take positions critical of the Qatari government in papers.

Top Think Tank Executives = OF COURSE, say the money never compromised the integrity of their organizations’ research. = EXECUTIVES ARE PAID TO SPIN AND LIE!

“Our business is to influence policy with scholarly, independent research, based on objective criteria, and to be policy-relevant, we need to engage policy makers.”

— Martin S. Indyk, vice president of “HALF TRUTHS” and director of the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings, OLD think tanks in Washington.

Contracts and internal documents = Show foreign governments are often explicit about what they expect from the research groups they finance.

“In Washington, it is difficult for a small country to gain access to powerful politicians, bureaucrats and experts. Funding powerful think tanks is one way to gain such access, and some think tanks in Washington are openly conveying that they can service only those foreign governments that provide funding.”

— Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry Report

THINK TANKS = ANOTHER WAY FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO OWN THE VOTES OF CONGRESS MEMBERS = These Thin Tank relationships are pivotal to winning influence in Washington

Some countries work directly with think tanks, drawing contracts that define the scope and direction of research to promote the country’s agenda.

“Japan is not necessarily the most interesting subject around the world. We’ve been experiencing some slower growth in the economy. I think our presence is less felt than before.”

— Masato Otaka, a spokesman for the Japanese Embassy

2011-Now = 64+ foreign governments contributed to 28 USA-based Think Tanks = $92+ Million BIASED RESEARCH BOUGHT
Center for Strategic and International Studies = 13 foreign government donors, from Germany to China = John J. Hamre, President and CEO said organization’s scholars at times advocate causes with the Obama administration and Congress on the topics that donor governments have funded them to study. = THE REPORTS DO THE LOBBYING! + “I never go into the government to say, ‘I really want to talk to you about Morocco or about United Arab Emirates or Japan.’ I have conversations about these places all the time with everybody, and I am never there representing them as a lobbyist to their interests.”

Legal experts who reviewed the documents said the tightening relationships between USA think tanks and FOREIGN SPONSORS = Violates the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to STOP propaganda campaigns in USA = Register as “foreign agents” with the Justice Department. = “I am surprised, quite frankly, at how explicit the relationship is between money paid, papers published and policy makers and politicians influenced.”

— Amos Jones, Lawyer specialized in foreign agents act on Brookings in Qatar –The line between scholarly research and lobbying can be hard to discern.

“Yikes! We will absolutely seek counsel on this.”

— Todd Moss, the COO at the Center for Global Development, after being shown dozens of pages of emails between his organization and the government of Norway, which detail how his group would lobby the White House and Congress on behalf of the Norway government.

Japan’s effort to persuade American officials to accelerate the Trans-Pacific Partnership, one of Japan’s top priorities = Japan had lobbyists on retainer but decided to add in Think Tanks. = Lobbyists established in October 2013, a group of USA lawmakers = The Friends of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. + Think Tank = Center for Strategic and International Studies, to which Japan has been a longtime donor = Last 4 years $1.1+ Million for “research and consulting” to promote trade and direct investment LIES between Japan and the USA even holding EVENTS to PUSH TRADE DEAL! + At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing later that month, Matthew P. Goodman, a scholar at the center, testified in favor of the agreement = CLONE OF message Japan’s lobbyists were pushing. = The center’s president admitted his researchers were pushing for the trade deal.

One Japanese diplomat, who asked not to be named said, “If we put actual money in, we want to have a good result for that money — as it is an investment.”

— Japan Diplomat

BIG OIL MONARCHS = Qatar and the United Arab Emirates = Host 2 LARGE USA MILITARY BASES = Used as their NATIONAL SECURITY! = Especially aggressive in giving to think tanks

Qatar funds $3+ Billion to ISIS(L) + Argues for WAHHABI-STYLE OVERWHELMING MURDER AND MAYHEM in Syria and Iraq.

United Arab Emirates = HOME OF ERIC PRINCE’S NEW MERCENARY TRAINING CENTER = A major supporter of the Center for Strategic and International Studies over the past decade = The oil-rich nation sought to remake its image in Washington, Mr. Hamre said. PURE LOBBYING! = UAE PAID for a sponsored lecture series “to examine the strategic importance” of the gulf region and “identify opportunities for constructive U.S. engagement.” + Paid the center to organize annual trips to the gulf region during which dozens of national security experts from USA would get private briefings from government officials there. = Perfect and important platform for UAE to press its case. = Mr. Dempsey’s comment posted on the Facebook page of the United Arab Emirates Embassy: UAE was one of America’s “most credible and capable allies, especially in the gulf region.”