Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst and wife of Never Trump critic Max Boot, was indicted on Tuesday for acting as an agent for the South Korean government without registering under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
of The New York Times report:
In Terry’s case, prosecutors say he began acting as a foreign agent in 2013, five years after he left the CIA. He was first contacted by an agent posing as a diplomat at the South Korean mission to the United Nations in New York City and received at least $37,000 in payments over the next 10 years in return for his work, including handbags, clothing and undercover trips to a think tank where he worked at the time, according to the indictment.
Prosecutors said Terry engaged in a wide range of activities for and at the direction of the South Korean government but failed to register with U.S. authorities as a foreign agent, as required by law. He faces two counts: failure to register under federal law; Foreign Agents Registration Actand another was charged with conspiring to violate it.
Boot was once a vocal supporter of the Iraq War and interventionist foreign policy, but in the Trump era he became a leading voice in the Never Trump movement, urging his readers and viewers to vote Democrat. In his anti-Trump role, he was a sought-after CNN analyst and media columnist. The Washington Post.
In 2020, Boot was one of several anti-Trump commentators and voices close to the “deep state.” New York Post The reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop are fake and may be the product of “Russian disinformation.”
Boot’s critics quickly began posting some of his past commentary on U.S.-South Korea relations, questioning whether he had been paid or influenced by a foreign government to produce content on behalf of the government.
With foreign flags on his resume, was Max Boot doing all this for free, or was he being paid by foreign governments to sell out his country? https://t.co/jK4n9bswTb pic.twitter.com/UCR7hzibqX
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 17, 2024
Boot himself has not been charged with any crime. He advocated for impeachment of Trump in April 2019 for alleged “collusion” with Russia, long before the infamous Ukraine “phone call” later that year, and continued to advocate for impeachment after special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence that Trump (or any other Americans) colluded with Russia.
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