{"id":1590429,"date":"2022-08-05T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590429"},"modified":"2022-08-05T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:03:26","slug":"exclusive-report-shows-biden-admin-run-by-former-registered-foreign-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-report-shows-biden-admin-run-by-former-registered-foreign-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Report Shows Biden Admin Run By Former Registered Foreign Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-report-shows-biden-admin-run-by-former-registered-foreign-agents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590429&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>More than a dozen high-ranking members of the Biden administration previously worked as registered foreign agents, according to a new report obtained exclusively by The Federalist. The report was published by the Biden administration watchdog \u201cInside Biden\u2019s Basement,\u201d itself a project of the nonprofit Transparency Action Fund. <\/p>\n<p>Titled, \u201cForeign Agents Lurking Inside Biden\u2019s Basement,\u201d the group\u2019s new report outlines the networks of at least 13 officials under President Joe Biden who were once paid to represent foreign interests and registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Their prior clients range from Iran and Kazakhstan to Canada and Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>FARA records <a href=\"https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6170-Exhibit-AB-20180402-39.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">show<\/a> White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su\u2019s law firm paid out $30,000 a month to Mercury Public Affairs on behalf of the government of Kazakhstan in 2018. Biden Special Assistant Erin Pelton was employed with Mercury in the same year and worked on behalf of both Kazakhstan and Qatar, <a href=\"https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6170-Supplemental-Statement-20181229-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to public government documents. <\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Biden\u2019s U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski\u2019s public affairs firm, McGuireWoods Consulting, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/nsd-fara\/page\/file\/991561\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paid<\/a> nearly $140,000 over a six-month period by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Americans experience one Biden-era crisis pile on top of another, the President\u2019s Cabinet, spokesmen, and aides behind the scenes seem to put America last,\u201d said Derrick Hollie, the communications director for Inside Biden\u2019s Basement. \u201cIt is instructive for Americans watching their needs take a back seat to know which of those officials Inside Biden\u2019s Basement have represented nations other than our own yet now have tremendous power over their lives.\u201d Hollie worked previously in Trump\u2019s Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Agents Registration Act requires that anyone lobbying on behalf of a foreign client disclose their business to the Department of Justice. Filings regularly demonstrate the extent of bipartisan corruption in Washington. As the Washington establishment sought to undercut former President Donald Trump, FARA enforcement kicked into high gear amid investigations into Trump officials such as Paul Manafort.<\/p>\n<p>Those efforts, however, highlighted how deeply entrenched foreign interests are in Washington, D.C., also ensnaring Tony Podesta, a top Democrat lobbyist and the brother of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Manafort, Tony Podesta, and Rick Gates failed to disclose their lobbying efforts on behalf of interests connected to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. While the media focuses heavily on the very real problems of foreign influence among certain Trump associates, far less attention is paid to the damning connections shared by Biden officials.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland, the most senior of those listed, represented five international clients including the Union Nacional de Productores de Hortalizas in Mexico; the Government of Brazil; VIASA, previously known as Venezuelan International Airways; the International Commodities Clearing House, Ltd. in the United Kingdom; and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT).<\/p>\n<p>Biden adviser Anita Dunn, another senior official highlighted who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/05\/biden-hires-harvey-weinstein-apologist-as-new-white-house-communications-adviser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">returned<\/a> to the West Wing in May, previously served the government of Ontario. Dunn had also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/stevenperlberg\/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein\">voluntarily<\/a> coordinated public relations strategy for disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. While not an international client, the ex-movie mogul was convicted of rape in 2020 and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/11\/nyregion\/harvey-weinstein-sentencing.html#:~:text=Harvey%20Weinstein%2C%20the%20movie%20producer,one%20another%2C%20some%20in%20tears.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sentenced<\/a> to 23 years in prison at 67 following testimonies from six women against him. Dunn was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052748704597704574487431322664964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> by the Wall Street Journal to admire former Chinese dictator Mao Zedong as a favorite political philosopher.<\/p>\n<p>Other officials named in the report include U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake and U.S. Representative to the European Union Mark Gitenstein. Flake, who served a single term in the Senate from Arizona, previously represented Rossing Uranium Ltd., a Nambian mining operation with connections to the government of Iran. Gitenstein worked for the Swiss-headquartered food giant Nestle. <\/p>\n<p>Six other administration officials who were registered foreign agents include Robert Bauer, the co-chair of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court; Melissa Schwartz, the communications director for the Department of the Interior; Natalie Wyeth Earnest, counselor to the Treasury secretary; Maria Fabiana Jorge, alternate executive director of the Inter-American Development Bank; Zev Karlin-Neumann, a communications adviser for the Domestic Policy Council, and Steven Ricchetti, counselor to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>While the report names 13 officials who were registered foreign agents before their tenure in the administration, the report is not exhaustive. The administration is actively working to conceal the identities of presidential appointees more than 18 months into Biden\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a separate conservative legal group, America First Legal (AFL), <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/07\/legal-group-launches-litigation-blitz-to-compel-foia-disclosures-of-bidens-radical-appointees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched<\/a> a litigation blitz to unearth the names, titles, positions, resumes, salaries, ethics pledges, waivers, and agreements of all appointees under Biden. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Federalist at the time, AFL Vice President and General Counsel Gene Hamilton compared the effort to compile records of administration officials to ProPublica\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/trump-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump Town<\/a>\u201d database, which made the same information of nearly 4,000 presidential appointees publicly accessible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople, you know, highlighted it and used it to try to write stuff up about people who were trying earnestly to execute President Trump\u2019s agenda,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cWell, the same has not really been true for the Biden administration. And so this is about transparency.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>AFL\u2019s efforts are not connected to the database being compiled by Inside Biden\u2019s Basement. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View FARAIBB (1) on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/585546526\/FARAIBB-1#from_embed\">FARAIBB (1)<\/a> by <a title=\"View The Federalist&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/274202084\/The-Federalist#from_embed\">The Federalist<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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