…The 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act is supposed to deter the most egregious foreign meddling in America. It does so through transparency. FARA doesn’t prohibit any foreign government from launching US public relations campaigns or lobbying initiatives. It only insists that the agents of the foreign principal behind such endeavors publicly reveal the control relationships, campaigns, and funding flows…
An amendment to FARA allows an attorney general to admit defeat and formally exempt a foreign principal from all FARA oversight. Since the 1960s white shoe law firms such as Covington & Burling, where Eric Holder was once an attorney, have worked diligently to gut FARA and water down its investigative and enforcement mechanisms. If it wasn’t written for Israel, it’s hard to say who the exemption is for. Crudely abbreviated it reads, �The Attorney General may, by regulation, provide for the exemption..[if the AG] determines that such registration�is not necessary�� More