The Biden administration on Wednesday took several actions over new, unsubstantiated claims about Russian “election interference.”
Most of the actions targeted employees of RT, a Russian state-funded media outlet. The US has accused RT of interfering in presidential elections since 2016, but what the US has called “interference” has just been the media outlet’s coverage of the election cycle.
CNN reported early Wednesday that the administration was preparing to unveil several steps against election interference, and an RT spokesperson told the outlet: “2016 called, and it wants its clichés back.”
Later in the day, the State Department announced that it was taking three actions to “hinder malicious actors from using Kremlin-supported media as a cover to conduct covert influence activities that target the US elections in 2024 and undermine our democratic institutions.”
The first action was visa restrictions imposed by the Treasury Department. The restrictions targeted 10 Russian individuals, including seven RT employees.
The State Department also said it was listing the Russian media group Rossiya Segodnya and its subsidiaries as “foreign missions.” The subsidiaries include RIA Novosti, RT, TV-Novosti, Ruptly, and Sputnik.
The third action announced by the State Department was offering up to $10 million as a reward for information on a hacking group known as Russian Angry Hackers Did It, or RaHDit. The State Department claimed the group “previously engaged in election influence in other countries and is a threat to the 2024 US elections.”
Separately, the US Department of Justice unveiled an indictment against two employees of RT who are accused of funding a Tennessee-based digital media group. The DOJ alleged that the two Russians of “covertly” funded the group to distribute content with “hidden Russian government messaging.” The DOJ didn’t name the group, but the details in the indictment match with Tenet Media.
The indictment charges the two Russia with conspiracy to launder money and a conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a law that requires individuals or entities engaging in lobbying or other activity on behalf of a foreign country to register as foreign agents with the DOJ. Since both Russians are based in Russia, the case is not expected to go to trial, making the indictment largely symbolic.
The US government is also going after Americans who have worked for or written stories for RT, including former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who was recently raided by the FBI. Ritter said the raid was over allegations that he violated FARA, which he has denied.
The USA is an important country. Why wouldn't everybody on the planet interfere in these elections? Certainly the Israelis do it. The Ukrainians would be fools not to, the list goes on.
The U.S. has some nerve talking about election interference with its history of instigating chaos and trying to overthrow governments in coups, regime changes, sanctions or just outright bombing campaigns.
Also, is AIPAC registered as a foreign agent?
No. And the ex lawyer for the DNC helped them with a work around.
https://www.leefang.com/p/leaked-israeli-docs-reveal-effort
Slime balls
Mercy, you are too kind.
I just found Putin under my bed this morning. He was a nasty beast. It took seven blasts of Raid before I finished him off.
News designed to divert numbskull Americans from daily election interference by Israel via AIPAC.
nailed it
FARA basically contends that if one presents the same arguments, policies, or facts that a "foreign nation" agrees with and which dispute US policies, then one is a "foreign agent" who must "register" and comply with all the onerous requirements and restrictions.
Obviously, this is flag-waving censorship to deter criticism of (especially) US foreign policies and actions. As Cold War II against Russia & China heats up, expect the selective enforcement to become more and more draconian.
Attempt to control free speech.
The truth from free speech is surely Bitter in the Empire of Lies land…!
Before all this talk gets out of hand, let us say infiltrating the Ukraine, overthrowing the government, an then inciting a war with Russia, as well as dropping mass quantities of bombs on largly helpless Palestinian populations should not be construed as "election interference".
So, why would Russia bother? You can rig our elections any way you want, you're still going to end up with the stink of one pile of shit or the other. Ans there is no way in hell they could rig them without that being the case.
They're not going to rig the election, Wars Russ, they'll do something even MORE sinister !
They're going to flood a tiny percentage of Facebook with misleading ads AFTER the election is over !!!
"…and an RT spokesperson told the outlet: “2016 called, and it wants its clichés back.""
Damn you RT for your sick burns making me laugh.
Also let's note that a writer for Canada's premier (ha ha) Right / far-Right "National Post" admitted to being a Ukrainian stooge.
the rus has found new ground
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/massive-iskander-attack-sends-rats
WARNING: MAY BE SPEAKING UNDER DURESS
"WE PLANNED TO BLOW UP KURSK NUCLEAR PLANT – UKRAINIAN POW: prisoner from #Ukraine's elite 82nd Air Assault Brigade admits that army boss Syrsky tasked them with committing nuclear terrorism during their incursion in pre-war #Russia's Kursk.
(Quoting Syrsky) You must quickly break through to the Kursk region, to the nuclear power plant. All these events were prepared by #NATO specialists with Ukrainian military specialists. They wanted to plant an explosive there … And Ukraine will blame Russia that it blew (the Kursk nuke power plant, NPP) up – a prisoner of war revealed in the above video. Unfortunately for Kiev and fortunately for the world, Moscow's forces stopped Ukrainian troops well before they could reach Kursk NPP and now Kiev's cannon fodder fertilizes Russian soil."
It appears that NATO's attack on the Kursk nuclear power plant has influenced Russia's nuclear doctrine. Perhaps it was developing after the attacks on the ZNPP. Now it's likely etched in granite.
Whether Russia will respond in kind to a Western nuclear power structure remains to be seen. The WEF would revel in a global depopulation event. That may come later but under a different stimulative trigger.
Europe and America will view higher costs in imported Russian oil and gas assuming a massive global deflationary collapse isn't imminent. Russia will install more defense measures around power plants and oil refineries. That's a given and an operation in progress.
Whether Zelensky believes that destroying a Russian nuclear plant favors Ukraine in peace negotiations with President Putin, it ignores that striking a nuclear plant is equivalent to launching a nuclear missile on Russian territory. The Kremlin will or would, charge America and NATO as fellow planners or belligerents. That has happened without the ICC, ICJ, and the UN sticking their neck out in vociferous, legal opposition against the Biden administration.
It will never happen. From the US perspective, war has no rules.
The same people made bogus claims of Russiagate, and the same people told us the Hunter laptop was a Russian fake.
They are liars. They cannot be trusted. They have proven that on this very same subject.
This is like listening to the losing US generals who wanted to stay in Afghanistan, telling us about all the other places they think we ought to stay. We KNOW they are liars. It is not just a guess, they've proven that, and they just keep doing it. We just keep listening.
Shame on us.