GAP’s report also suggests that FFF management – including former FFF Chairman (and close friend of Paul Wolfowitz) Anwar Ibrahim, who is currently a Malaysian parliamentarian– misled the US Internal Revenue Service. The FFF’s financial statements for 2006 and 2007 state that the Foundation did not attempt to influence national legislation, an assertion contradicted by the cables and reports released by the Department of State. These documents suggest that several Foundation representatives actively lobbied the US Congress in 2006-07 for legislative changes favorable to the FFF. - GAP report, 8 July 2010
Anwar telah di dakwa telah menerima dakwaan bahawa FFF yang diketuainya itu mendapat dana lumayan dari Kerajaan U.S ketika di bawah pemerintahan Bush. Katanya pada Utusan Malaysia pada 21hb. Mei 2007 seperti yang berikut..
KUALA LUMPUR 21 Mei – Pengerusi Yayasan bagi Masa Depan, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mencabar mana-mana pihak yang mengkritiknya supaya membuktikan kaitan antara yayasan itu dengan Presiden Bank Dunia, Paul Wolfowitz.
Beliau berkata, yayasan tersebut tidak pernah berurusan dengan Bank Dunia dan tidak menerima bantuan kewangan daripada mana-mana pihak dari Amerika Syarikat (AS).
“Saya sungguh kecewa kerana perkara ini dijadikan satu propaganda kotor. AS tidak pernah memberi satu sen pun kepada yayasan ini dan kami mempunyai bukti.
“Ini semua propaganda yang menggunakan akhbar-akhbar tempatan bagi memanipulasi keadaan,’’ katanya kepada pemberita selepas menghadiri majlis perasmian bangunan Ibu Pejabat Pas di Jalan Raja Laut di sini hari ini".
Dylan Blaylock telah membenarkan dakwaan GAP itu pada artikelnya di website GAP sebagai menulis begini...
(Washington, D.C.) – A report released by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), based on documents obtained through nearly three years’ of U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, exposes the highly irregular manner in which the Foundation for the Future (FFF) – an obscure project funded by the U.S. Department of State – was established and operated by Bush administration officials and appointees.
Specifically, the report details how high-level State Department officials misled Congress as they sought millions in public money for the Foundation, which was a haven for people with political connections. The report also shows that FFF was a pet project of Elizabeth Cheney, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Cheney worked to set up the Foundation with Shaha Riza, Paul Wolfowitz’s companion whose seconding to the State Department (and then to the FFF) was directly responsible for the 2007 World Bank scandal that resulted in Wolfowitz’s departure from the Bank.
“Liz Cheney had the preposterous idea that the Foundation for the Future would bring peace and democracy to the Middle East,” said GAP International Program Officer Shelley Walden, author of the report. “This overlong project wasted millions of taxpayer dollars.”
Anwar telah di dakwa telah menerima dakwaan bahawa FFF yang diketuainya itu mendapat dana lumayan dari Kerajaan U.S ketika di bawah pemerintahan Bush. Katanya pada Utusan Malaysia pada 21hb. Mei 2007 seperti yang berikut..
KUALA LUMPUR 21 Mei – Pengerusi Yayasan bagi Masa Depan, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mencabar mana-mana pihak yang mengkritiknya supaya membuktikan kaitan antara yayasan itu dengan Presiden Bank Dunia, Paul Wolfowitz.
Beliau berkata, yayasan tersebut tidak pernah berurusan dengan Bank Dunia dan tidak menerima bantuan kewangan daripada mana-mana pihak dari Amerika Syarikat (AS).
“Saya sungguh kecewa kerana perkara ini dijadikan satu propaganda kotor. AS tidak pernah memberi satu sen pun kepada yayasan ini dan kami mempunyai bukti.
“Ini semua propaganda yang menggunakan akhbar-akhbar tempatan bagi memanipulasi keadaan,’’ katanya kepada pemberita selepas menghadiri majlis perasmian bangunan Ibu Pejabat Pas di Jalan Raja Laut di sini hari ini".
Dylan Blaylock telah membenarkan dakwaan GAP itu pada artikelnya di website GAP sebagai menulis begini...
(Washington, D.C.) – A report released by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), based on documents obtained through nearly three years’ of U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, exposes the highly irregular manner in which the Foundation for the Future (FFF) – an obscure project funded by the U.S. Department of State – was established and operated by Bush administration officials and appointees.
Specifically, the report details how high-level State Department officials misled Congress as they sought millions in public money for the Foundation, which was a haven for people with political connections. The report also shows that FFF was a pet project of Elizabeth Cheney, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Cheney worked to set up the Foundation with Shaha Riza, Paul Wolfowitz’s companion whose seconding to the State Department (and then to the FFF) was directly responsible for the 2007 World Bank scandal that resulted in Wolfowitz’s departure from the Bank.
“Liz Cheney had the preposterous idea that the Foundation for the Future would bring peace and democracy to the Middle East,” said GAP International Program Officer Shelley Walden, author of the report. “This overlong project wasted millions of taxpayer dollars.”
