The Department of Justice is taking back policing of foreign interests working in the United States, ending the criminal enforcement of a law which is used by foreign governments to snatch bad actors to influence politics and elections. Is done.
In a memorandum sent to employees on Wednesday, US Attorney General Palm Bondi revealed that it had dissolved the Foreign Impact Task Force, which is a unit dedicated to investigating the violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), so that Such agents need to register with American authorities.
He said that this decision was “to address more pressure priorities to eliminate free resources, and further arms and prosecution abuses.”
Ms. Bondi did not expand, but a very distant figures on the Republican party’s conspiratorial distant figures have accused the government that she drowned to wrongly target political operators like Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign manager of Donald Trump. Accuses of incorrectly targeting. US election.
In addition, on Wednesday, on the day of her swearing -in, Ms. Bondi dissolved the Task Force Claptocapture, an initiative in 2022 to implement restrictions on Russia.
Moscow was widely accused of trying to influence the 2016 vote in favor of Trump, who went to win.
Russia has denied participation in the scam despite the findings of American intelligence agencies.
For MANAFORT, he was accused of a litni of crimes, including acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign principal and lying in FARA documents. He was eventually forgiven by Trump.
FARA was also used to pursue FBI, who lied to FBI about contacts with Russia, former Democratic Senator Bob Menandage, who was in jail for bribery in January It was put and failed to register as a foreign agent for Egypt.
Ms. Bandy – who had registered herself under the FARA for the work done with Qatar – said she was limiting criminal enforcement of law to alleged conduct by foreign government actors “by foreign government actors. “
In a shock of edits sent on its first day in the job, Ms. Bondi also launched a unit focused on 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, which was targeted by the abolition of federal death penalty and re -introduced diversity programs which Then stopped under. -Pritabhang Jo Biden.
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