How Foreign Governments Use a Loophole to Influence the U.S.

Rosie Gray: “Unlike the Washington firms hired directly by foreign governments,
Ukraine’s leadership has slipped its American agenda through an
increasingly popular loophole in the federal law intended to regulate
foreign activity in the United States, allowing it to follow the minimal
disclosure practices required of domestic corporate lobbies, not the
extensive ones demanded of registered foreign agents. It’s a loophole
now used by a range of post-communist governments, in particular, with
money to burn and no particular love of transparency. And it offers a
path to the end of a disclosure regime put in place in 1938, amid
American concern over the effects of Nazi propaganda.”