Trump administration cuts teams that fight foreign election interference
The Trump administration this week eliminated much of the federal government’s front line of defense against foreign interference in U.S. elections. The move, which follows years of Trump and his allies disputing the role that Russian influence campaigns played in his first successful bid for president,
‘I wonder why they did that?’: Pam Bondi orders the dissolution of the foreign election interference task force
In one of her first major moves as Donald Trump’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi issued a directive ordering the disbandment of the foreign election interference task force. The Foreign Influence Task Force was part of the FBI’s response to foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election,
“Trump’s Justice Department shutters specialized FBI team combatting foreign election interference threats”
CNN: The FBI is preparing to disband a team of specialists charged with combatting foreign threats to US elections, a source familiar tells CNN. The shuttering of the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force and planned reassigning of team members follows a directive
Freeland leadership campaign targeted by foreign interference: task force
Canadian security officials say an "information operation" against Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland was traced to a popular WeChat news account linked to China.
Maddow Blog | AG Pam Bondi shutters the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force
Pam Bondi is the first attorney in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force.
Pam Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics
Attorney General Pam Bondi halted an FBI effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia, and other adversaries that try to sow chaos in U.S. politics.
US cuts task forces on foreign influence, Russian sanctions
The Justice Department is scaling back policing of foreign interests operating in the United States, ending criminal enforcement of a law used to snare bad actors seeking to influence politics
Pam Bondi kills FBI policy for investigating foreign election interference
President Donald Trump's new attorney general is shutting down a longstanding FBI enforcement policy to safeguard U.S. elections from foreign interference campaigns, NBC News reported on Thursday. The order,
US Justice Department disbands teams investigating corruption, election interference
New Attorney General Pam Bondi sharply reorients DOJ's priorities to focus on drug cartels, transnational crime ...
"An invitation to foreign actors": Bondi tells DOJ to quit worrying about foreign lobbying campaigns
“Taken together these changes are an invitation to foreign actors to interfere in American affairs," Aaron Zelinsky, a former ...
Nearly 90% of Germans fear foreign election interference, finds survey
Nearly 90% of Germans believe foreign actors, primarily from Russia and the U.S., are trying to influence upcoming national ...
France, Germany, Others Urge EU Commission to Protect Elections in Europe From Foreign Interference
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France, Germany and 10 other European Union countries want the European Commission to use its powers ...