Matthew Miller: FARA applies to people who are acting on behalf of a foreign government, not to people who are doing legitimate nongovernment organization work - I’ve seen those false equivalencies drawn in the past
When you see the United States Foreign Agents Registration Act, it is to people who are acting on behalf of a foreign government, not people who are doing legitimate nongovernment organization work, who are doing humanitarian work, who are doing civil society work, the Spokesperson for the US Department of State, Matthew Miller, said at the briefing in response to a question: “Why is it okay for the United States to have a law on foreign agents and it’s not okay for Georgia, Russia to have one?”
According to him, the difference is in the nature of those laws.
“The difference is in the nature of those laws. When you see the United States Foreign Agents Registration Act, it is to people who are acting on behalf of a foreign government, not people who are doing legitimate nongovernment organization work, who are doing humanitarian work, who are doing civil society work. It’s a very different type of thing. I’ve seen those false equivalencies drawn in the past. And when you look at the text of the proposal in Georgia and the text of the proposal that has been passed due to Kremlin influence in other countries, they are very different than the type of law that we have on the books here in the United States”, he said.
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Matthew Miller: FARA applies to people who are acting on behalf of a foreign government, not to people who are doing legitimate nongovernment organization work - I’ve seen those false equivalencies drawn in the past
When you see the United States Foreign Agents Registration Act, it is to people who are acting on behalf of a foreign government, not people who are doing legitimate nongovernment organization work, who are doing humanitarian work, who are doing civil society work, the Spokesperson for the US Department of State, Matthew Miller, said at the briefing in response to a question: “Why is it okay for the United States to have a law on foreign agents and it’s not okay for Georgia, Russia to have one?”
According to him, the difference is in the nature of those laws.
“The difference is in the nature of those laws. When you see the United States Foreign Agents Registration Act, it is to people who are acting on behalf of a foreign government, not people who are doing legitimate nongovernment organization work, who are doing humanitarian work, who are doing civil society work. It’s a very different type of thing. I’ve seen those false equivalencies drawn in the past. And when you look at the text of the proposal in Georgia and the text of the proposal that has been passed due to Kremlin influence in other countries, they are very different than the type of law that we have on the books here in the United States”, he said.
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