Please join MEF for a webinar this Friday with MEF's Washington Project Director, Cliff Smith and Islamist Watch Director, Sam Westrop!
The Middle East Forum cordially invites you to a webinar:
"Uncovering Terror Funding in Foreign Aid: The Islamic Relief Agency Scandal" with Cliff Smith and Sam Westrop
Join Cliff Smith, Director of the Washington Project and Sam Westrop, Director of Islamist Watch, in a discussion on "Uncovering Terror Funding in Foreign Aid: The Islamic Relief Agency Scandal."
Cliff Smith and Sam Westrop discovered the Obama administration handed over hundreds of thousands of dollars to a designated terrorist organization linked to Osama Bin Laden. They explain how documents acquired through an MEF lawsuit against the federal government revealed a major Christian charity and several Obama administration officials attempted to lobby on this terror group’s behalf.
Friday, April 3, 2020 1:00 - 1:15p.m. EDT Online Click here to register
You can also reply to Stacey McKenna at Stacey@meforum.org or by phone at 215-546-5406 ext. 113
Clifford V. Smith is MEF's liaison to decision makers and opinion leaders in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.A. from Washington State University, an M.P.P. with a focus on international relations from Pepperdine University, and a law degree from the Catholic University of America. He is a member of the Maryland Bar. An experienced political operative, he is the veteran of numerous campaigns and has held several positions in Congress, most recently communications director for U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer. His writings have been published in the Daily Caller, the American Spectator, PJ Media, and other outlets.
Sam Westrop has headed Islamist Watch since March 2017, when MEF absorbed the counter-extremism unit of Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT). Prior to this he was research director at APT, and ran Stand for Peace, a London-based counter-extremism organization monitoring Islamists throughout the UK. Mr. Westrop is a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute. His writings have appeared at such publications as National Review, National Post, and The Hill, and he has appeared on dozens of television and radio stations, including BBC, Al Jazeera, and Newsmax.
The Middle East Forum, an activist think tank, deals with the Middle East, Islamism, U.S. foreign policy, and related topics, urging bold measures to protect Americans and their allies. Pursuing its goals via intellectual, operational, and philanthropic means, the Forum recurrently has policy ideas adopted by the U.S. government.
