By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Sunday, December 3, 2017
The Trump-Russia dossier may be sleazy and inaccurate, but there is no U.S. election law that expressly prohibits such work by a foreign national, the federal government says.
Since the disclosure that Democrats paid former British spy Christopher Steele via middlemen for the anti-Trump memo, some pundits and Republicans have questioned its legality. The dossier’s core charges of collusion remain unproven, officials have said.
Governing such payments is the Federal Election Campaign Act, which is enforced by the Federal Election Commission and law enforcement agencies.
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