Co-Chair, National Security practice @MoFoLLP | fmr. DOJ natsec official incl. #FARA Unit Chief, Leak Czar, prosecutor | #sanctions #cyber | views my own
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Thrilled for our latest The Regulators episode with Adam Chan, who explains all of the ways the FCC is regulating in the national security space, including drones and automated vehicles. If you’ve never heard of “bad labs” this will be an education.
Today’s Lawfare Daily is a new Regulators ep, produced with @MoFoLLP, in which @S_R_Anders and @BVanGrack spoke to Adam Chan, at the @FCC, about the FCC’s increasingly important role in U.S. national security policy and several of the initiatives they currently have underway.
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Liability for Unregistered Foreign Agents: The Department of Justice would like to remind the public of federal laws that require individuals to register as foreign agents when they act in the United States at the direction or control of a foreign government or foreign principal, and that they will face civil and criminal liability if they fail to do so.
Lawful protest and independent advocacy are protected rights. But if a foreign government or foreign principal secretly directs, controls, funds, or coordinates your activity in the United States, federal disclosure laws may apply. May God Bless the United States of America.
Learn your obligations under FARA and 18 U.S.C. § 951: justice.gov/nsd-fara
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DOJ just issued a statement reinforcing its commitment to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act (#FARA). Unclear what prompted the press release, but suspect its trying to correct the notion that FARA is dead—w/ specific investigations in mind.
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As states increasingly regulate foreign influence, @BVanGrack explains how state level foreign registration requirements differ from the federal legislation and why they mean greater compliance burdens for companies and nonprofits.
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For anyone seeking to understand the new export control rules that dramatically expand the Entity List, here’s a primer; we also have a webinar on Monday.
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This week's actions targeting "domestic terrorism" have no legal effect on their own, but portend aggressive use of existing authorities with implications on asset forfeiture, immigration, air travel, and the tax code.
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We’re hosting a webinar on DOJ’s new cross-border sensitive bulk data regulations that apply to most companies that handle genomic or personal health data, or conduct clinical trials. This new regime is bipartisan, and so is here to stay.
Register at: veracast.com/webcasts/mofo/m…
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JUST IN: Justice's National Security Division is being overseen by Devin DeBacker, who heads the foreign-investment review section, but it is not a formal acting appointment.
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Today’s Lawfare Daily is a new Regulators episode in which @S_R_Anders and @BVanGrack spoke to Jennifer Gellie, Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, about new proposed regulations her office has issued for implementing the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Today on "The Regulators," @S_R_Anders & I talk w/ Jennifer Gellie, the DOJ official who oversees the Foreign Agents Registration Act (#FARA). We dive into DOJ’s proposed changes to FARA, which have major implications for global companies. @lawfare
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AG Garland made the right call on Volume 2.
NEW: In a filing at the 11th Cir., the Justice Department says it will release special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on Trump’s Jan. 6 case—but it will withhold his final report on the classified documents case so long as prosecutions of Trump’s co-defendants remain pending.
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Amid the flood of regulations recently issued by the Biden admin, new restrictions on transactions involving or access to sensitive data may be the most far reaching. Most global firms w/ sensitive data are impacted. Goes live in April.
Details below.
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For anyone interested in a deep dive of DOJ's proposed changes to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), here's a comprehensive summary. As proposed, many global companies would need to reassess their FARA risk and exposure. Comments due March 3.
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DOJ just proposed the most significant changes to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in 30 years. Lots to unpack. Main change would significantly narrow the commercial exemptions; many global firms would need to reassess their FARA exposure.
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Former Member of Congress Charged with Acting as an Unregistered Agent of a Venezuelan National
David Rivera Allegedly Received Over $5M for Efforts to Lobby Executive Branch Officials and Laundered Criminal Proceeds
🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/former-me…
ALT Press Release. Former Member of Congress Charged with Acting as an Unregistered Agent of a Venezuelan National. December 18, 2024
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Starting an account on BlueSky. Don’t want to lose touch with any of you. Please come find me.
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If you're looking for a baseline of how serious this charge is, Jack Teixeira was just sentenced to 15 years in prison for leaking classified military docs in group chats. But the intent here is different, so I'd expect DOJ to seek an even higher sentence.
#BREAKING: A C.I.A. official Asif W. Rahman has been criminally charged with disclosing classified documents that appeared to show #Israel’s plans to retaliate against #Iran for a missile attack earlier this year.
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A CIA official has been charged with leaking top-secret classified documents that revealed information last month about Israel’s plans for a military strike against Iran on.wsj.com/3Z2lTUc
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