BUSTED! Obama accepts ‘Osama bin Laden’ donations!
BY Aaron Klein – WND.com
WASHINGTON – Using a Pakistani Internet Protocol and proxy server, a
disposable credit card and a fake address, “Osama bin Laden” has
successfully donated twice to Barack Obama’s presidential re-election
campaign.
The “Bin Laden” donations, actually made by WND staff, included a
listed occupation of “deceased terror chief” and a stated employer of
“al-Qaida.”
“Bin Laden” is currently set up on the official campaign website to
contribute more to Obama’s campaign. The name is also registered as a
volunteer.
Since the “foreign” contribution was sent, “Bin Laden’s” email
address has received several solicitations from Obama’s campaign asking
for more donations.
The apparently foreign-based contributions were conducted as a test
after a flurry of media reports described the ability of foreigners to
donate to the Obama campaign but not to Mitt Romney’s site, which has
placed safeguards against such efforts.
The acceptance of foreign contributions is strictly illegal under U.S. campaign finance law.
One $15 donation was made at BarackObama.com using a confirmed
Pakistani IP address and proxy server. In other words, as far as the
campaign website was concerned, the donation was openly identified
electronically as coming from Pakistan.
Upon clicking the “donate” button, WND staff selected the $15 amount
and were taken to a page on the campaign website asking for a first and
last name, city, state, zip code, email address and phone number.
The information submitted was: “Osama bin Laden, 911 Jihad Way, Abbottabad, CA 91101.”
While the website only has options for U.S. states and zip codes,
there is no mechanism in place on Obama’s website to verify the
individual is actually located in that state or zip code, or even in the
U.S.
The Obama campaign refuses to release the identification of donors who give less than $200
In the case of this donation, the 91101 zip code is real but
corresponds to Pasadena, Calif., and not Abbottabad, the Pakistani city
in which bin Laden was found holed up in a compound.
For a requested phone number, WND used the White House information line of (202) 456-2121.
The email address used to set up the donation account was [email protected].
After clicking “next,” the website asked for an employer, occupation
and a password to set up future donations. WND staff entered the
occupation as “deceased terror chief” and the employer as “al-Qaida.”
The transaction was made last Friday with the use of a disposable
credit card. The website did not require the card’s security code.
The campaign website immediately accepted the contribution even
though it was made from a Pakistani IP address and despite the
nonexistent street name and city information.
An automated email was immediately sent from Rufus Gifford, national
finance director of Obama for America, thanking “Osama” for the
contribution. The email contained a note that said, “There may be a
minor delay in the processing of your contribution as it will be subject
to review.” However, “Osama bin Laden’s” foreign donation evidently
passed the Obama campaign’s “review.”
As of today, the $15 was debited from the disposable card.
To test if the first donation was an oversight, a second donation of
$5 was made the following day using the “Bin Laden” account and the same
Pakistani IP address.
WND has received confirmation from the credit card company that the
purchase went through and the $5 was deducted from the disposable card.
From the time of the first donation until today, the Obama campaign
sent nine more emails to the bin Laden Gmail account soliciting more
donations.
One email sent Saturday reads, “Thanks so much for your donation of
$5.00. Please take 10% off your next purchase of $10 or more at our
online store.”
Another, signed by Michelle Obama, was titled “Barack is getting outraised.”
“You’re one of the campaign’s most committed supporters,” Michelle Obama writes in the automated email to “bin Laden.”
“Please make a donation of $19 or whatever you can today.”
The donations from a Pakistani IP address are sure to raise further
questions about the measures in place to block such donations.
‘Time for an investigation’
Cleta Mitchell, a Republican campaign finance attorney, told WND
there were many documented cases of illegal foreign contributions to the
Obama campaign in 2008 that were “wholly ignored by the Federal
Election Commission and the Obama Department of Justice.”
“I have been hearing the same stories from many sources during this
campaign as well,” she said. “Every other campaign has safeguards
against these illegal transactions – every campaign except the Obama
campaign.”
Mitchell told WND it’s “abundantly clear that the Obama campaign is
raising and accepting illegal contributions – and is being protected
from investigation by his politicized Department of Justice.”
“It is high time that this was investigated and all illegal funds
disgorged – and those responsible be prosecuted,” she asserted.
In 2008, WND reported
two Palestinian brothers inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip donated
$29,521.54 to Obama’s first presidential campaign. After the report,
the campaign reportedly returned the donations.
“As a 15-year veteran Internet entrepreneur, I can tell you what this
episode reveals: There is no intent on the part of the Obama campaign
to discourage any illegal foreign campaign contributions,” said Joseph
Farah, founder and chief executive officer of WND. “There are simple
processes the Obama campaign could put in place to ensure transactions
like this could never take place. No human review of transactions would
even be necessary if such systems were in place. But apparently none of
them are – making it certain illegal foreign contributions would be
accepted by the Obama campaign.”
Last week, the New York Post reported
a British citizen, Chris Walker, was able to make two $5 donations
through Obama’s campaign website, while a similar attempt to give Mitt
Romney online funds was rejected.
The Post noted how the Federal Election Commission posted data
showing Obama’s campaign took in more than $2 million from donors who
provided no ZIP code or incomplete ZIP codes.
Michael Czin, an Obama campaign spokesman, told the Post that FEC data was the result of “a minor technical error.”
“All the ZIP codes and numbers are real and can be verified,” Czin said.
However, if all zip codes are real, Czin has some explaining to do
after the “Bin Laden” donation from a zip code based on the anniversary
of the September 11th attacks.
The non-profit Government Accountability Institute recently released a
report alleging Obama’s campaign had solicited foreigners for political
donations through its social media websites.
As the Daily Caller reported,
a statement accompanied the GAI’s report from former U.S. Attorney Ken
Sukhia noting that 68 percent of traffic to BarackObama.com comes from
foreign users, all of whom are redirected to a fundraising page operated
by the president’s re-election campaign.
The GAI report further documented how Obama.com was registered in
September 2008 to Robert Roche, an Obama campaign bundler living in
Shanghai, China.
WND is preparing an affidavit for the Federal Elections Commission
and the FBI on the illegal donation accepted by the Obama campaign.
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