Can
foreign governments form their own political action committees to
influence U.S. election results? If so, must they openly declare that
they are foreigners seeking to get support for politicians that will
cause harm to a particular sector of the U.S.A. (such as the
Clintons) or that would benefit foreign billionaires (maybe the
Clintons?).
Americans
saw adds on FB paid for, apparently by some with connections to
Russians.
It
may be that foreigners are prohibited by law (U.S. law) from directly
contributing to U.S. politicians. The Clinton Foundation received
contributions from numerous or innumerable foreign rich people and
received favors such as State Dept tours for doing so. It is not
clear that there is anything illegal about buying advertising space
on FB that support anything that isn't prohibited by international
law.
Maybe
the Trump administration should establish a foreign agent political
action committee criterion that would allow any sort of foreign group
to register and take out adds to influence U.S. elections, though
appropriately labeled adds noting foreign origin.
One
wonders if it is constitutionally acceptable to ban foreign based
political action committees from existing, as purely evil as they may
be, though of a variety less so than more egregiously criminal forms
of evil.
International
law may be well advised to take up the issue of foreign influence on
extraneous nations, as well as the role of multinational corporations
in supporting political action committees or elections in foreign
nations, in regard to registering officially and receiving some sort
of sanction for failing to do so.
International Political Actions Committees (IPACS) might be registered that operate openly and lawfully anywhere they are not banned by a receiving national government and some global duplicity might be eliminated.
International Political Actions Committees (IPACS) might be registered that operate openly and lawfully anywhere they are not banned by a receiving national government and some global duplicity might be eliminated.
