AG Bondi disbands the foreign election interference task force and kleptocracy task force

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Pam Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics​

In a little-noticed directive on her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia and other adversaries that try to curry favor and sow chaos in American politics.

Buried on the fourth page of one of 14 policy memos Bondi issued Wednesday, the order disbands the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and pares back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, despite years of warnings by U.S. intelligence agencies that foreign malign influence operations involving disinformation were a growing and dangerous threat.

The order also curbs prosecutions of Americans who improperly lobby for foreign nations. [<--- maybe Senator Menendez has a shot after all]

Christmas Comes Early for Kleptocrats - DOJ Shutters Anti-Corruption Units​

Trump's newly appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent out an email announcing the immediate closure of the Department of Justice's Kleptocracy Initiative and its associated task force – the very unit responsible for making life difficult for the world's most creativeaccountants and their politically-connected clients.

 

[BCP1928]

Pam Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics​

In a little-noticed directive on her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia and other adversaries that try to curry favor and sow chaos in American politics.

Buried on the fourth page of one of 14 policy memos Bondi issued Wednesday, the order disbands the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and pares back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, despite years of warnings by U.S. intelligence agencies that foreign malign influence operations involving disinformation were a growing and dangerous threat.

The order also curbs prosecutions of Americans who improperly lobby for foreign nations. [<--- maybe Senator Menendez has a shot after all]

Christmas Comes Early for Kleptocrats - DOJ Shutters Anti-Corruption Units​

Trump's newly appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent out an email announcing the immediate closure of the Department of Justice's Kleptocracy Initiative and its associated task force – the very unit responsible for making life difficult for the world's most creativeaccountants and their politically-connected clients.

Quite right, too. She'll be way too busy eradicating anti-Chrstian bias for any of that.

 

[Fantine]

Pam Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics​

In a little-noticed directive on her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia and other adversaries that try to curry favor and sow chaos in American politics.

Buried on the fourth page of one of 14 policy memos Bondi issued Wednesday, the order disbands the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and pares back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, despite years of warnings by U.S. intelligence agencies that foreign malign influence operations involving disinformation were a growing and dangerous threat.

The order also curbs prosecutions of Americans who improperly lobby for foreign nations. [<--- maybe Senator Menendez has a shot after all]

Christmas Comes Early for Kleptocrats - DOJ Shutters Anti-Corruption Units​

Trump's newly appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent out an email announcing the immediate closure of the Department of Justice's Kleptocracy Initiative and its associated task force – the very unit responsible for making life difficult for the world's most creativeaccountants and their politically-connected clients.

I guess they're preparing to get some clandestine help for the 2028 election. What next?

 

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Russian-linked bots sow fear, distrust ahead of German vote, researchers find​

Reuters was able to review the full database of posts and confirm the thrust of the campaign of posts, mainly originating on X, containing videos which were then shared on a wider range of social media platforms. The posts had been interacted with some 2.5 million times so far, the researchers found.

X did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the posts on its platform.

Their volume tripled this week, when a group named Storm 1516 joined a campaign which had previously been dominated by the Doppelganger and Matryoshka disinformation networks.

The bot networks' messaging seemed designed to help the AfD, said Felix Kartte, a misinformation specialist at the Mercator Institute.

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Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party​

The tech entrepreneur and close adviser to Donald Trump Elon Musk has taken a stunning new public step in his support for the far-right Germanpolitical party Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing a supportive guest opinion piece for the country’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper that has prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest.

 

[Fantine]

Wow! The two biggest threats to our democracy---and her boss.

It's true. The Department of Justice has now become the president's personal law firm. Who cares about what's best for America?