> I eagerly await the investigation into Israeli interference of the last 10 US presidential elections
From ¶ 1 of the indictment [1]: "U.S. law...bars agents of any foreign entity from engaging in political activities within the United States without first registering with the Attorney General."
It's not illegal for foreign entities to lobby our government. It's illegal to do it dishonestly, e.g. by "posing as U.S. persons and creating false U.S. personas" (¶ 3) or using "without lawful authority, the social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of real U.S. persons to open accounts at PayPal" (¶ 90).
I suspect more than lobbying is going on. There's certainly more evidence for that than there was for Russian interference - and look what that investigation has brought up.
AIPAC, who have a well documented history of interference, and have controversially managed to avoid registering themselves under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
They have a well documented history of lobbying, which is what they exist to do. I don't know of any evidence that they interfere in our elections like this Russian government-sponsored org did. Do you have any?
Whether AIPAC should be allowed to lobby without registering as a foreign agent is a different subject; one worth discussing, but not what I asked about. Lobbying is not the same thing as the covert behavior undertaken here.
From ¶ 1 of the indictment [1]: "U.S. law...bars agents of any foreign entity from engaging in political activities within the United States without first registering with the Attorney General."
It's not illegal for foreign entities to lobby our government. It's illegal to do it dishonestly, e.g. by "posing as U.S. persons and creating false U.S. personas" (¶ 3) or using "without lawful authority, the social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of real U.S. persons to open accounts at PayPal" (¶ 90).
[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4380463-Internet-Res... via Axios [a]
[a] https://www.axios.com/mueller-indicts-13-russian-nationals-f...