Excerpt fr/ Rolling Stone:
Last week, Trump’s new Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded the corporate enforcement unit of DOJ’s National Security Division — the prosecutors who went after the people stealing company secrets on behalf of China, or illicitly financing Russia’s war in Ukraine. She also broke up the task force that seized the yachts of Russian oligarchs, or busted them for violating global sanctions. At the same time, she killed a 50-person task force, established during the first Trump administration, to investigate covert foreign influence — attempts to steer U.S. policy through clandestine means. (Think of the $10 million that a Kremlin-backed media operation steered to MAGA influencers in last year’s election.) “It’s now a free for all for foreign intel services,” former head of FBI counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi told NBC News.
And if Bondi has her way, criminal investigations like the one that exposed that $10 million influencer network will be a thing of the past. Last week, Bondi ordered prosecutors to dramatically scale back their investigations of violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. That’s the law, passed after World War II, when the Nazis got a bunch of Congressmen to secretly push their agenda. The idea was to stop that kind of covert propaganda.
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This commentary from Rolling Stone is a vital read.
NY Mayor #EricAdams was indicted in late September for allegedly doing favors for the Turkish government in exchange for illegal campaign donations and travel perks.
Excerpted fr/ Rolling Stone: