The Mueller investigation into foreign collusion in the 2016 presidential election may set off a chain reaction that threatens the way Washington does business.
The indictment of Mr. Craig, 74, stemmed from an investigation initiated by the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. The charges represented a continuation - and an expansion - of a new focus on a long-neglected law governing foreign influence operations in the United States, which the Justice Department has begun prioritizing in part because of scrutiny related to Mr. Mueller's investigation.
"In 1988 Tony and John Podesta founded Podesta Associates ... By 2015, the Podesta Group was the third largest in Washington D.C. ... The firm had a number of foreign governments as clients, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Iraq and the government of South Sudan."
T]hat means that the government first had to go to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to show not merely that a purpose of the collection would be foreign-intelligence gathering but also that there is probable cause to believe that the specific target of the collection was a "Foreign power" or an "Agent of a foreign power." It's not just companies.
Ever since Sept 11, 2001, there's been a growing fear that religious organizations can act like "Foreign powers." The Islamic Association of North America "Formally joined the USCMO, in effect, the U.S. branch of Erdogan's pro-Muslim Brotherhood Justice and Development Party ... just months after Ilhan Omar, state representative of Minnesota" met with Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York.The real takeaway of the Mueller investigation is that Washington is honeycombed with foreign influencers not just in the Trump campaign or Hillary's, but pretty much everywhere.
The upheaval of 2016 and the inquiries into the origins of the failed collusion investigation show that while the political system can still resolve conflicts it can only do so at the cost of a crisis.
Washington has to find ways of transparently logging foreign influence, securing data, and using better methods of verifying that political promises are kept.
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/protecting-the-capital-of-the-world/
The indictment of Mr. Craig, 74, stemmed from an investigation initiated by the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. The charges represented a continuation - and an expansion - of a new focus on a long-neglected law governing foreign influence operations in the United States, which the Justice Department has begun prioritizing in part because of scrutiny related to Mr. Mueller's investigation.
"In 1988 Tony and John Podesta founded Podesta Associates ... By 2015, the Podesta Group was the third largest in Washington D.C. ... The firm had a number of foreign governments as clients, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Iraq and the government of South Sudan."
T]hat means that the government first had to go to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to show not merely that a purpose of the collection would be foreign-intelligence gathering but also that there is probable cause to believe that the specific target of the collection was a "Foreign power" or an "Agent of a foreign power." It's not just companies.
Ever since Sept 11, 2001, there's been a growing fear that religious organizations can act like "Foreign powers." The Islamic Association of North America "Formally joined the USCMO, in effect, the U.S. branch of Erdogan's pro-Muslim Brotherhood Justice and Development Party ... just months after Ilhan Omar, state representative of Minnesota" met with Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York.The real takeaway of the Mueller investigation is that Washington is honeycombed with foreign influencers not just in the Trump campaign or Hillary's, but pretty much everywhere.
The upheaval of 2016 and the inquiries into the origins of the failed collusion investigation show that while the political system can still resolve conflicts it can only do so at the cost of a crisis.
Washington has to find ways of transparently logging foreign influence, securing data, and using better methods of verifying that political promises are kept.
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/protecting-the-capital-of-the-world/
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