This column started as a mystery trying to solve the reason for the Republican's new found love of Israel by tracing the event chain. Why had there been an unprecedented invitation to a foreign leader to address Congress with no clear cut agenda and without the full approval of the United States government? Why did he insult both the man and the Office of the President and leave accomplishing... well nothing actually? Why was a shocking and again unprecedented seditious letter sent to disrupt a multinational nuclear arms treaty from the same body, blatantly exceeding it's authority undermining the Office of the President of the United States and causing increased tension in a very complicated Nuclear arms treaty, again accomplishing very little? Then in writing the timeline and adding Senator Tom Cotton's meeting the next day with defense contractors and a bombshell revelation of a million dollar donation from an Israeli hard-line special interest group something became clear. This was an incredibly unusual and some would say suspicious sequence of events.
What makes this $960,000 exchange of cash extremely compelling is it's from William Kristol's Israeli special interest group, Emergency Committee for Israel, which boasts only two board members, William Kristol himself and one former Ronald Reagan advisor, Gary Bauer. Now, non-profits are usually supposed to have at least three (3) board members but that's a subject for another day. Who else comprises this entity or even holds sway over it is the question that should be asked... asked by the investigative branch of the federal government.
So, this organization which among other things has been incredibly vocal in both the Hilary Clinton 'scandals' (a light bulb should go on) and highly critical of the multinational Geneva Interim Agreement on the Iranian Nuclear Program Treaty suddenly takes an interest in a senatorial candidate from Arkansas. Then that candidate receives a million dollars from that special interest group and when he comes to office decides to write a letter to undermine the aforementioned treaty. Doesn't this raise questions that should be asked by the appropriate authorities?
Tom Cotton, who displays a vigorous and seeming new found interest, like his 47 collaborators, in the wishes of persons and entities of foreign countries, then meets with defense contractors the very next day. What did they discuss? Who was present? Shouldn't all of these discussions be part of the public record?
In a free society where the will of the American people means something shouldn't we want to know all there is to know about this organization, what meetings transpired to secure this million dollar 'donation', who are the actual members of this Emergency Council for Israel and do they have ties to or actual sitting members in the Israeli Government?
If so, has a law been broken?
More importantly perhaps is whose best interests are Tom Cotton and his gang of 47 representing?
It would seem incredibly difficult to make the case it is the American people.
LINK TO WHITE HOUSE PETITION: 'File charges against the 47 U.S. Senators in violation of The Logan Act in attempting to undermine a nuclear agreement.'
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...
Link to treaty:
http://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/...
'Israel lobby's fingerprints are all over Republican letter to ...'
http://mondoweiss.net/...
'ECI PAC Gives Freshman Senator Cotton a Million Dollars':
http://www.dailykos.com/...
'Immediately After Launching Effort to Scuttle Iran Deal, Senator Tom Cotton To Meet with Defense Contractors':
https://firstlook.org/...