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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by zdragnar on Saturday February 22, 2025 @07:14PM (#43144758)
The biggest allegations, the ones that I suspect really lead to USAID coming under the cross hairs of DOGE, were that hundreds of millions of dollars went to Hamas and related organizations that promoted violence against not just Israel but all Jews and the West.

IMHO, in situations like this, the State department absolutely should have been able to step in and say "hold on, let's make sure this isn't being treated as a slush fund by anti American terrorists", but that's not really possible under the current structure.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by daveguy on Saturday February 22, 2025 @08:12PM (#43145177)
"Condoms for Hamas" was debunked.
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by zdragnar on Saturday February 22, 2025 @08:55PM (#43145502)
That's just one example. Hamas has been receiving funding for years, despite their less than decent track record of using the money for it's intended purpose.

https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/usg-funding-to-gaza-and-wb-i...

As an example.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by daveguy on Sunday February 23, 2025 @11:44AM (#43150725)
All of this is about actual oversight verification and oversight performed in 2024 and earlier.

This is pre-doge, so of course none of their garbage lies show up. Only the actual oversight by regulators that doge is fking up.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by aSanchezStern on Saturday February 22, 2025 @08:39PM (#43145364)
Yeah this was totally debunked, I believe the programs that were said to be "going to terrorists" were actually promoting women's literacy in Afghanistan.
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by zdragnar on Saturday February 22, 2025 @08:53PM (#43145486)
https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/usg-funding-to-gaza-and-wb-i...

There's more going on than what's in the latest news cycle.

Of course, that particular source is vested in the story, but to call the entire thing "totally debunked" is just willful ignorance.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by zimpenfish on Sunday February 23, 2025 @08:28AM (#43149093)
> Of course, that particular source is vested in the story

Their financial statements being given in New Israeli Shekels is a bit of a giveaway.

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