State Dept sued over funding Soros operations in FYROM

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Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch is suing to obtain records of US government dealings with billionaire George Soros' network of nonprofits in FYROM (Macedonia), which stand accused by the country's government of fomenting regime change.

On Wednesday, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against both the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), seeking "records and communications relating to the funding and political activities" of the Open Society Foundation and its affiliates in Macedonia.

"The Obama administration seemed to bust taxpayer budgets in an effort to fund the Soros operation," Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said in a statement. "The Trump State Department and USAID should get their act together and disclose the details of the Obama...