That question, however, is being posed by Claudia Rosett in the National Review who is a member of the neocon, Israel supporting think tank 'Foundation for the Defense of Democracies'. Right Web details the history of that supposed 'non-partisan' foundation and exposes some of its funding sources which you won't find on the Foundation's website where it vaguely states in its FAQ:
Who funds FDD?
FDD is funded by a diverse group of individual philanthropists and foundations. FDD has also received government grants from the U.S. State Department and US-AID.
Rosett provides what she seems to think are telling details about Carter Center funding sources which she has garnered from its public annual reports, but that's not enough to satisfy her.
It could be argued that Carter, whatever his pretensions, is, after all, a private individual running a private foundation, and is therefore under no obligation to disclose full details of the getting and spending of the river of money flowing through his center. (In 2004, the most recent year for which the center’s website makes such figures available, donations totaled $146 million.) But in all his waging and fighting and building (and fundraising), Carter has been trading for years on the respect accorded to his former public office. Regardless of whatever room for murk the law allows, full financial disclosure is what sound judgment demands. The Carter Center itself makes much in promotional materials of its efforts to strengthen democracies by “promoting government transparency.” Is Carter so rigidly certain of his rectitude that he believes himself exempt from his own preaching?
1. The Carter Center is not a "government".
2. The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies ought to first provide details of all of its funding sources if it truly believes in such transparency.
3. This isn't about funding at all. It's about a foundation that has major problems with Jimmy Carter's writings about Israel.
4. Pot. Kettle. Black.
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