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Yep it is, so you won't have any trouble doing so.  I am done being the only dog jumping through the hoop.

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20 minutes ago, MorningGlory said:

Here we go.  Another thread that isn't about Trump being made about Trump.  The subject is the 911 Report.

Pretty much, and like that, as lacking in verifiable evidence.

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Lobbying career[edit]

Manafort was a founding partner of Washington, DC-based lobbying powerhouse Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly. In 1996 he left BMSK to join Richard H. Davis in forming Davis, Manafort.[citation needed]

Association with Jonas Savimbi[edit]

In 1985, Manafort accepted $600,000 yearly from Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the Angolan rebel group UNITA, to refurbish his image in Washington and secure financial support on the basis of his anti-communism. Throwing events at the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and Freedom House, Savimbi was praised as a freedom fighter by Jeane Kirkpatrick, and went on to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid[citation needed]. Allegedly, Manafort's continuing lobbying efforts helped preserve the flow of money to Savimbi several years after the Soviet Union ceased its involvement in the Angolan conflict, forestalling peace talks.[10]

Lobbying for other Foreign Rulers[edit]

Manafort accepted $900,000 yearly to lobby for Ferdinand Marcos. He was also involved in lobbying for Siad Barre of Somalia, and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre. His firm also lobbied on behalf of the governments of the Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya (between $660-750,000 yearly 1991 and 1993), and Nigeria ($1 million in 1991). These activities led Manafort's firm to be listed amongst the top five lobbying firms receiving money from human-rights abusing regimes in the report "The Torturer's Lobby."[11]

Involvement in the Karachi Affair[edit]

Manafort wrote the campaign strategy for Edouard Balladur in the 1995 elections, and admitted to having been paid under the table[12] (at least $200,000). The money was transferred to him through his friend, Lebanese arms-dealer Abdul Rahman al-Assir, from middle-men fees paid for arranging the sale of three French Agosta-class submarines to Pakistan, in a scandal known as the Karachi Affair.[13]

Association with Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence Agency[edit]

Manafort received $700,000 from the Kashmiri American Council between 1990 and 1994, supposedly to promote the plight of the Kashmiri people. However, an FBI investigation revealed the money was actually from Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency as part of a "false flag" operation to divert attention from terrorism. A former Pakistani ISI official claimed Manafort was aware of the nature of the operation.[14] While producing a documentary as part of the deal, Manafort interviewed several Indian officials while pretending to be a CNN reporter.[15]

HUD scandal[edit]

In the late 1980s, Manafort was criticized for using his connections at HUD to ensure funding for a $43 million rehabilitation of dilapidated housing in Seabrook, N.J.[16] Manafort's firm received a $326,000 fee for its work in getting HUD approval of the grant largely through personal influence with Deborah Gore Dean, an executive assistant to former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.[17]

Lobbying for Viktor Yanukovych[edit]

He also worked as an adviser on the Ukrainian presidential campaign of Viktor Yanukovych (and his Party of Regions during the same time span) from December 2004 until the February 2010 Ukrainian presidential election[18][19] even as the U.S. government (and McCain) opposed Yanukovych because of his ties to Russia's Vladimir Putin.[7] Manafort was hired to advise Yanukovych months after massive street demonstrations known as the Orange Revolution overturned Yanukovych's victory in the 2004 presidential race.[20] Borys Kolesnikov, Yanukovich’s campaign manager, said the party hired Manafort after identifying organizational and other problems in the 2004 elections, in which it was advised by Russian strategists. [19] Manafort rebuffed U.S. Ambassador William Taylor when the latter complained he was undermining U.S. interests in Ukraine.[21] According to a 2008 U.S. Justice Department annual report, Manafort’s company received $63,750 from Yanukovych's Party of Regions over a six-month period ending on March 31, 2008, for consulting services.[22] In 2010, under Manafort's tutelage, the opposition leader put the Orange Revolution on trial, campaigning against its leaders' management of a weak economy. Returns from the presidential election gave Yanukovych a narrow win over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of the 2004 demonstrations. Yanukovych owed his comeback in Ukraine's presidential election to a drastic makeover of his political persona and, people in his party say, that makeover was engineered in part by his American consultant, Manafort.[19]

In February of 2014, Yanukovych was overthrown by the Euromaidan protests (and its violent end) and a Parliamentary vote and fled to Russia.[23]

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/12/top-trump-aide-paul-manafort-lobbied-for-saudis-against-embassy-move-to-jerusalem.html

 

Paul Manafort, the aide dubbed Trump’s “new right-hand man” and his point-person on delegate strategy at the coming Republican convention, worked the corridors of power in Washington for the Saudi government in the 1980s.

 

 

Manafort’s work for the Saudis didn’t stop with his lobbying on the location of the U.S. embassy in Israel: His work was evidently sufficient for him to maintain the client. Throughout 1985, he was paid to advise the Saudi government on U.S. arms sales to the Saudis, energy policy, and America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia more broadly. For this Manafort was paid more than $300,000, or more than $660,000 in current terms.

And in the first half of 1986, Manafort lobbied the Reagan White House, the State Department and Congressional staff on a proposed arms sale to Saudi Arabia, netting him a quarter-million dollars—which today is worth more than half a million.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/new_trump_campaign_manager_was_a_foreign_agent_for_controversial_saudi_prince_bandar.html

 

This week, Paul J. Manafort became the unquestioned senior staffer on the Donald Trump presidential campaign.  With the dismissal of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, Manafort now maintains complete control of Trump's drive to the White House.

The last time Manafort had such a prominent role, he was answering directly to the infamous Saudi royal, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.  For several years, Manafort was a loyal lobbyist not only to Bandar, but to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as their most influential foreign agent in America.

 

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2 hours ago, Out of the Shadows said:

Yep it is, so you won't have any trouble doing so.  I am done being the only dog jumping through the hoop.

Promises, promises!

Yet somehow, here you are, quoting more questionable sources - granted ones that cross the aisle, but still ones that are either tabloid sites or quoting tabloid sites.

Yet somehow, here your are, trying to change the topic from the OP, to make it about Trump again!

Notice - report about Saudi Funding . . . or did that escape your notice. I guess Enquiring minds just want to know!

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3 minutes ago, Omegaman 3.0 said:

Promises, promises!

Yet somehow, here you are, quoting more questionable sources - granted ones that cross the aisle, but still ones that are either tabloid sites or quoting tabloid sites.

Yet somehow, here your are, trying to change the topic from the OP, to make it about Trump again!

Notice - report about Saudi Funding . . . or did that escape your notice. I guess Enquiring minds just want to know!

That is the thing about sources, they can all be questioned, if they don't agree with your point of view, you question them.   I know what the thead is about, all I did was show a web connecting that funding to what is happening in politics today. 

The web of connections is facinating.

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6 hours ago, Out of the Shadows said:

I am not sure how much I trust one willing to go to the highest bidder, but my real interest in this are the strands of the web.  One prince who has been tied to funding terrorist helped bail Donald Trump out during one of this bankruptcies.  Another price who has been tied to funding terrorist used the services of Paul Manafort as a lobbyist.  Now Paul Manafort is working for Donald Trump.  I wonder if I can find the web leading to the third prince tied to funding of terrorist.

Or ....

you could support your claims with links instead of just telling us this stuff. I found the claims about that prince only on conspiracy sites. Which have not been considered trustworthy at other times. 

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6 hours ago, Out of the Shadows said:

Lobbying career[edit]

Manafort was a founding partner of Washington, DC-based lobbying powerhouse Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly. In 1996 he left BMSK to join Richard H. Davis in forming Davis, Manafort.[citation needed]

Association with Jonas Savimbi[edit]

In 1985, Manafort accepted $600,000 yearly from Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the Angolan rebel group UNITA, to refurbish his image in Washington and secure financial support on the basis of his anti-communism. Throwing events at the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and Freedom House, Savimbi was praised as a freedom fighter by Jeane Kirkpatrick, and went on to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid[citation needed]. Allegedly, Manafort's continuing lobbying efforts helped preserve the flow of money to Savimbi several years after the Soviet Union ceased its involvement in the Angolan conflict, forestalling peace talks.[10]

Lobbying for other Foreign Rulers[edit]

Manafort accepted $900,000 yearly to lobby for Ferdinand Marcos. He was also involved in lobbying for Siad Barre of Somalia, and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre. His firm also lobbied on behalf of the governments of the Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya (between $660-750,000 yearly 1991 and 1993), and Nigeria ($1 million in 1991). These activities led Manafort's firm to be listed amongst the top five lobbying firms receiving money from human-rights abusing regimes in the report "The Torturer's Lobby."[11]

Involvement in the Karachi Affair[edit]

Manafort wrote the campaign strategy for Edouard Balladur in the 1995 elections, and admitted to having been paid under the table[12] (at least $200,000). The money was transferred to him through his friend, Lebanese arms-dealer Abdul Rahman al-Assir, from middle-men fees paid for arranging the sale of three French Agosta-class submarines to Pakistan, in a scandal known as the Karachi Affair.[13]

Association with Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence Agency[edit]

Manafort received $700,000 from the Kashmiri American Council between 1990 and 1994, supposedly to promote the plight of the Kashmiri people. However, an FBI investigation revealed the money was actually from Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency as part of a "false flag" operation to divert attention from terrorism. A former Pakistani ISI official claimed Manafort was aware of the nature of the operation.[14] While producing a documentary as part of the deal, Manafort interviewed several Indian officials while pretending to be a CNN reporter.[15]

HUD scandal[edit]

In the late 1980s, Manafort was criticized for using his connections at HUD to ensure funding for a $43 million rehabilitation of dilapidated housing in Seabrook, N.J.[16] Manafort's firm received a $326,000 fee for its work in getting HUD approval of the grant largely through personal influence with Deborah Gore Dean, an executive assistant to former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.[17]

Lobbying for Viktor Yanukovych[edit]

He also worked as an adviser on the Ukrainian presidential campaign of Viktor Yanukovych (and his Party of Regions during the same time span) from December 2004 until the February 2010 Ukrainian presidential election[18][19] even as the U.S. government (and McCain) opposed Yanukovych because of his ties to Russia's Vladimir Putin.[7] Manafort was hired to advise Yanukovych months after massive street demonstrations known as the Orange Revolution overturned Yanukovych's victory in the 2004 presidential race.[20] Borys Kolesnikov, Yanukovich’s campaign manager, said the party hired Manafort after identifying organizational and other problems in the 2004 elections, in which it was advised by Russian strategists. [19] Manafort rebuffed U.S. Ambassador William Taylor when the latter complained he was undermining U.S. interests in Ukraine.[21] According to a 2008 U.S. Justice Department annual report, Manafort’s company received $63,750 from Yanukovych's Party of Regions over a six-month period ending on March 31, 2008, for consulting services.[22] In 2010, under Manafort's tutelage, the opposition leader put the Orange Revolution on trial, campaigning against its leaders' management of a weak economy. Returns from the presidential election gave Yanukovych a narrow win over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of the 2004 demonstrations. Yanukovych owed his comeback in Ukraine's presidential election to a drastic makeover of his political persona and, people in his party say, that makeover was engineered in part by his American consultant, Manafort.[19]

In February of 2014, Yanukovych was overthrown by the Euromaidan protests (and its violent end) and a Parliamentary vote and fled to Russia.[23]

Wikipedia, which I have been told is not good enough.

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4 hours ago, Out of the Shadows said:

That is the thing about sources, they can all be questioned, if they don't agree with your point of view, you question them.   I know what the thead is about, all I did was show a web connecting that funding to what is happening in politics today. 

The web of connections is facinating.

How about valid sources, like I have been asked to provide, repeatedly.

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