State Department isn’t buying ProPublica’s sob story about Taliban alumnus whose funding was exposed by DOGE

ProPublica — an investigative journalist outfit that has received donations from Laurene Powell Jobs and her leftist Emerson Collective, from George Soros’ Foundation to Promote Open Society, and from Crankstart Foundation, Lincoln Project donor Michael Moritz’s family foundation — ran a sob story on Friday about a so-called “Afghan scholar” whose receipt of American funds through the U.S. Institute of Peace was exposed earlier this year by the Department of Government Efficiency.

The liberal publication tried to paint former Taliban official Mohammad Qasem Halimi as a victim, the work he did as “routine” yet “ambiguous,” DOGE’s publicization of Halimi’s financial link to the U.S. as irresponsible, and the DOGE worker who briefly controlled USIP as inept.

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