Fighting Foreign Influence through FARA Part II with Bradley Hart and Katie Kedian

The black letter law and articles in this episode are: The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2009-title22/pdf/USCODE-2009-title22-chap11-subchapII.pdf Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-14895-7 China Global Television Network (CGTN) registered as a foreign agent https://www.thedailybeast.com/under-pressure-from-us-authorities-state-owned-chinese-tv-network-registers-as-foreign-agent “When is a TV Channel a Foreign Agent” in the Atlantic Magazine https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/rt-lobbyist-russia-putin-media/390621/ United States v. Peace Information Center, 97 F. Supp. 255 (D.D.C. 1951) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/97/255/2247887/ Paul Manafort Sentencing (Eastern District of Virginia only) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/us/politics/manafort-sentencing-ellis.html Skadden Arps FARA Settlement with the Departmetn of Justice https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1124381/download Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections (Declassified Version) https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf OIG Audit of the Department of Justice’s FARA Enforcement Unit https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/a1624.pdf Summary of the Audit: https://oig.justice.gov/press/2016/2016-09-07.pdf FARA reform bills from: Sen. Chuck Grassley https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/sen-grassley-rep-johnson-introduce-bill-shine-light-foreign-influences Sen. Dianne Feinstein https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=2DC67701-9D40-4068-9D21-4E5442748FF9 Dr. Bradley Hart is an Assistant Professor at Fresno State University and the author of “Hitler’s American Friends” http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/mcj/faculty-staff/faculty/bradley-hart.html Kathleen Kedian is a Senior Counsel at Raytheon Company and a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University Law School. She served as Principal Deputy Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section and Chief of the Counterespionage Section of the US Department of Justice National Security Division.