I just got this press release in my email:

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross will announce today a complaint that the RNC is filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against the Obama campaign. The complaint will address foreign national and excessive contributions accepted by the Obama campaign that demonstrate it is operating outside of federal campaign finance law.

Wow.

I don’t have any other details at this point, but here on Say Anything we’ve been talking about this for a while.  Back in August we noted concerns about the amount of money Obama was receiving from people claiming to be Americans living overseas.  The amount of small-dollar contributions Obama has received, contributions which aren’t required by law to be reported to the FEC, are troubling as well.  And now that the RNC is getting behind this in an official way?

And then there’s this from Rick Moran:

Just how much in donations from foreign countries is pouring into the Obama campaign coffers is a question one FEC auditor would like to have answered. The problem is that evidently, his bosses at the FEC are refusing to move on the charges which would almost certainly require them to ask the Justice Department and the FBI to look into the matter. This would, their reasoning goes, take on the appearance of a “criminal investigation” and would impact the coming election.

The anonymous investigator (who won’t reveal his name for fear of retribution) says that “I can’t get anyone to move. I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison. And no one here wants to touch it.”

Where there’s smoke there’s usually fire.

Update: For record, Marc Ambinder (who is usually better than this) suggests that questioning Obama’s foreign contributions is, well, racist.

I guess thinking people who aren’t actually Americans shouldn’t be able to influence American elections is racist too, then.