U.S. Attorney Hints SPLC Indictment Could Involve Foreign Intelligence
The morning after a gunman attempted to breach the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York went on CNBC and connected the Southern Poverty Law Center indictment to foreign actors funding domestic-conflict operations on American soil.
That is exactly the analytical framework I laid out forty-eight hours ago in the long-form breakdown on this channel — privatized active measures, the FARA regulatory gap, the Dzerzhinsky doctrine on American soil.
The federal posture just caught up.
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Eric Garland is a Fellow of the Council of Competitive Intelligence with thirty years of professional human-intelligence experience. In May 2022, the Russian Federation personally sanctioned him for his open-source analytical work on Russian intelligence operations against American democratic institutions.
In January 2018, he published an analytical thread on the expanding DOJ enforcement posture under the Foreign Agents Registration Act — predicting the regulatory turn that the SDNY case is now bringing to public attention.
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