A Law Unto Himself

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National Review:

‘The Illegal-Donor Loophole” is the headline of a Daily Beast story by Peter Schweizer, of the conservative Government Accountability Institute, and Peter Boyer, former reporter at The New Yorker and the New York Times.

 

The article tells how Obama.com, a website owned by an Obama fundraiser who lives in China but has visited the Obama White House eleven times, sends solicitations mostly to foreign e-mail addresses and links to the donation page on the Obama campaign website.

The Obama website, unlike those of most campaigns, doesn’t ask for the three- or four-digit credit-card verification number. That makes it easier for donors to use fictitious names and addresses to send in money.

Campaigns aren’t allowed to accept donations from foreigners. But it looks like the Obama campaign has made it easier for them to slip money in. How much foreign money has come into the Obama campaign? Schweizer and Boyer say there’s no way to know.