New Records Suggest ActBlue Opened The Door Wide To Foreign Donors

Benefit of the doubt.

That’s apparently the phrase that paid when it came to the left’s fundraising giant’s handling of potential foreign donations, according to the findings of a new congressional report into the ActBlue cash scandal. 

In their third interim report, the House Administration, Judiciary and Oversight committees have released internal ActBlue documents that expose what seems to be the left-wing organization’s blasé attitude about laws prohibiting contributions from foreign actors to political campaigns. 

Among the latest installment’s key findings: 

 — ActBlue’s policies that allegedly “prevent” illegal, fraudulent political contributions could be bypassed easily by foreign actors.

—  ActBlue’s “passport verification process,” which allegedly prevents illegal foreign donations, is an ineffective security method that does not actually require a valid U.S. passport number.

— ActBlue repeatedly instructed its fraud prevention analysts to “give the donor the benefit of the doubt” and to ignore red flags about contributions with foreign indicators.

“I wish I could say that [the new records] surprise me, but in many ways this is almost what you expect,” Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., chairman of the Administration Committee, said Thursday in an interview on The Federalist Radio Hour. “I have been engaged in this investigation now for three years and what we continue to realize is that ActBlue has not been taking fraud seriously.”