Talk Radio – The Todd Feinburg Show
Radio host Todd Feinburg, named three times to Talkers Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Most Important Talk Hosts in America, interviews Grant Smith about the book “Foreign Agents“.
Todd Feinburg: The Todd Feinburg Show, Grant Smith is here. He’s the director of Research at IRmep, located in Washington DC. His book is Foreign Agents, going after the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for violating, Grant believes, and his organization believes, the laws that control this sort of lobbying by foreign influenced entities. And it sounds like you’re really, it’s another alarm Grant, in the long series of complaints that the US government has fallen prey to special interests without being balanced out by what the best interest of the US is, i.e. the following our laws and doing things the way they are supposed to be done here. Is that a fair assessment?
Grant Smith: Yeah, I think it is. And it falls into a very important area of policy obviously because we are talking about matters of life and death. To have an organization of this size and influence be so intransparent is problematic.
Todd Feinburg: How is it intransparent…how is it opaque? Doesn’t it have to report? Like any other organization would….?
Grant Smith: Very minimal reporting for some of the financial aspects of how many donations, what were the overall expenditures, salaries of the directors, but those are not important. What would be interesting would be the specific activities lobbying for the Iraq war. What are specific activities across the United States generating support for military strikes on Iran. Those are items of extreme importance that if it were registered under FARA it would have to disclose..
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