Newsweek veteran reporter Peter Boyer and GAI president Peter Schweizer report on the giant gap in our campaign-finance system that makes foreign and fraudulent donations possible.

Click here to read the entire report at Daily Beast.

The big, immediate questions I see: Why do Obama donation appeals go out to non-Americans, anyway? And why isn’t the credit card protection stronger?

Read David Weigel’s full report here at Slate.com.

The Government Accountability Institute today released details of aneight-month probe into fundraising by the presidential candidates and all House and Senate candidates that also shows that the president’s outreach and fundraising have targeted websites in Chinese, Arabic, Thai, and Korean. Generally, donations from foreign nations are illegal.

Click here to read the complete Washington Examiner article.

Click here to read the National Review story on the GAI Internet report.

The “alarming” results detailed in the report, GAI found, highlight “a serious and systemic threat to the integrity of the U.S. election system” that demands a full-scale investigation by federal authorities.

To read the full Washington Free Beacon story, click here.

Obama.com website is not owned by the president’s campaign but rather by Obamabundler Robert Roche, a U.S. citizen living in Shanghai, China. Roche is the chairman of a Chinese infomercial company, Acorn International, with ties to state-controlled banks that allow it to “gain revenue through credit card transactions with Chinese banks.”

Click here to read the Powerline article on “America The Vulnerable.”

The 108-page GAI report found nearly half of Congress, both political parties and presidential candidates, and third-party fundraising groups that funnel money to political parties and candidates were vulnerable to fraudulent and foreign donations. This is a bipartisan problem potentially impacting all levels of government, as those whose organizations were found to have been vulnerable include President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Republican National Committee (RNC), and third-party groups like ActBlue, which funnels money to progressive politicians.

To read the full Breitbart News story, click here.

GAI reported that about 11.9 percent of Romney’s website traffic comes from “foreign sources,” something that may raise suspicions. The Romney campaign website does, however, require donors to specifically identify themselves as proper donors and it’s unclear if foreign traffic would have anything to do with actual donations.

GAI said the “full extent” of Romney’s campaign donation bundlers “is not known” because of his campaign’s lack of transparency with regard to that information. GAI noted bipartisan calls for Romney to release that information.

To read the Daily Caller’s full report, click here.

GAI found that Rubio, during his 2010 run for U.S. Senate, didn’t require online credit card donors to input Card Verification Value data — known also as a credit card’s Card Security Code (CSC), CVV2 or Card Verification Number (CVN).
To read the full Daily Caller story, click here.