A subcommittee's report also said the State Department did not adequately assess the risks of funding a group previously involved in political activity.
Liberman, who last month replaced longtime defense minister Moshe Yaalon, is in Washington, D.C., seeking to reassure Israel’s closet ally that the transition will be smooth.
Responding to a “condescending” explanation of the Middle East by the prime minister, the president invoked his own unlikely trajectory to the White House.