Sentences with phrase «campaigns by foreign nationals»

But while those are considered issues, Merkel confirmed that election campaigns by foreign nationals are legal and that she is hoping for a good relationship between Germany and Turkey.

Not exact matches

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Longtime WNY Democratic political operative G. Steven Pigeon, who is charged in two separate state cases, now faces a federal complaint, accused of trying to arrange a large contribution by a foreign national to what his attorney identified as Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign.

The store of national sympathy for foreign military adventures was utterly depleted by the lies which went into that campaign, and the manner in which it validated every criticism which was made of it in the run - up.

In a case that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee played up during the 2012 election, the ethics committee in July began a review of whether Grimm violated campaign - finance laws by seeking and accepting illegal contributions, created false reports and improperly sought assistance from a foreign nCampaign Committee played up during the 2012 election, the ethics committee in July began a review of whether Grimm violated campaign - finance laws by seeking and accepting illegal contributions, created false reports and improperly sought assistance from a foreign ncampaign - finance laws by seeking and accepting illegal contributions, created false reports and improperly sought assistance from a foreign national.

According to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday, Pigeon is accused of trying to arrange a large contribution by a foreign national to what his attorney identified as Governor Cuomo's campaign.

It has been suggested by Barack Obama, political pundits, and recent questions and comments on this stack, that the Citizens United decision made it possible for foreign nationals to donate to political campaigns.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

On 6 January 2017, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official responded to a December 2016 letter sent by Article 36 and six other UK members of Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that called on the government to establish national policy specifying «the measures necessary to ensure that weapons remain under human control in the future.»