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Israel s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem March 8, 2015.Gali Tibbon鈥擱eutersBy Massimo CalabresiMarch 14, 2015 5:00 PM EDTIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to cancel a January briefing for U.S. Senators by his nationrsquo intelligence service that warned Congress could damage talks aimed at constraining Iranrsquo nuclear program, according to sources familiar with the events.Tennessee Republican Bob Corker, the head of the Senate stanley cup Foreign Relations Committee, had requested the Jan. 19 briefing for six of his colleagues traveling to Israel so that the intelligence agency, Mossad, could warn them that a Senate proposal might i stanley cup nadvertently collapse the talks. After Netanyahursquo office stripped the meeting from the trip schedule, Corker threatened to cut his own Israel trip short in protest.Netanyahu relented after the personal intervention of Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, and allowed the briefing to go forward, sources say. Attending were Corker, Republican Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and John Barrasso, Democrat stanley cup ic Senators Tim Kaine and Joe Donnelly, and Independent Senator Angus King.At issue was the fate of a Nov. 2013 agreement between Iran, the U.S. and five other international powers. That temporary agreement promised no new economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for a freeze of Iranrsquo nuclear program, new international inspections of Iranrsquo nuclear sites Reip A Head Start
By Carrie Levine / Center for Public IntegrityFebruary 7, 2017 10:44 AM ESTOnly 100 U.S. senators mdash; not the general public reebok mdash; will vote to approve President Donald Trumprsquo cabinet nominees.But thatrsquo not stopping several conservative organizations from launching ad blitzes promoting Trumprsquo Cabinet picks mdash; most notably Betsy DeVos, Trumprsquo nominee for secretary of education, who critics have panned as a wealthy partisan hack with no practical experience in public education.But two conservative nonprofit groups, the Club for Growth and Americ jordan a Next, are pushing back hard, producing broadcast television ads supporting confirmation of DeVos, a GOP megadonor and staunch advocate for charter schools and school vouchers.Both Club for Growth and America Next asics are nonprofit groups organized under Section 501 c 4 of the federal tax code. That means their primary mission has to be social welfare, a category that includes issue advocacy ads that donrsquo;t specifically seek to influence a political election.Such groups arenrsquo;t required to reveal their donors, which means the public has no way of knowing who is paying for the pro-DeVos ads.The lionrsquo share of those TV ads came from America Next, which aired nearly 300 spots nationally through Feb. 5, according to data provided to the Center for Public Integrity by Kantar Media/CMAG, which tracks television advertising. Former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal created America Next in 2013.l