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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="12021087" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fec" source="Orion">FEC</keyword> fined <keyword id="12021086" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hillary-clinton" source="Orion">Hillary Clinton</keyword>'s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.</li><li>The agency said Clinton and the <keyword id="12055608" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dnc" source="Orion">DNC</keyword> improperly reported money used to fund the Trump-Russia dossier. </li></ul>The Federal Election Commission earlier this month fined Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee for failing to properly report funding on opposition research into the 2017 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/steele-dossier-allegations-trump-russia-mueller-investigation-2019-1#wikileaks-roger-stone-and-the-2016-dnc-hack-1">Steele dossier</a>, which examined former President Donald Trump's alleged links to Russia. In a <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6243b3f8b001843f2379a673/t/624486ac6da88f37bd43e98d/1648658094980/MUR+7449+closing+letter+to+Coolidge+Reagan+Foundation.pdf">letter</a> sent by the FEC to both parties on Tuesday, the agency said the Clinton campaign and the DNC improperly reported the money they spent funding the dossier, labeling the spending as "legal services," and "legal and compliance consulting" instead of opposition research. Political candidates and groups are legally required to publicly disclose their spending to the FEC, which is responsible for enforcing <keyword id="12012142" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="campaign-finance" source="Orion">campaign finance</keyword> law in the US, and explain the purpose of any cost that exceeds $200. The FEC fined the Clinton campaign $8,000 and the DNC $105,000 for the misconduct, the letter said. Clinton's campaign is still technically in operation with more than $181,000 cash on hand, according to a <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/865/202201319485181865/202201319485181865.pdf">January 2022 filing</a> — more than enough to pay the FEC fine. A source familiar with the situation told <a href="https://www.axios.com/fec-clinton-dnc-steele-dossier-funding-7fc18f81-3729-4c0b-b9f8-d6f08bce7d82.html">Axios</a> that the FEC commissioners voted 4-2 to approve the fine agreement, with all three FEC democrats voting in favor along with Republican commissioner Sean Cooksey. The board's two other Republicans reportedly voted against the conciliation. The infamous <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984/Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.pdf">dossier</a> in question was prepared by former UK intelligence officer Christopher Steele and included a trove of prurient but unverified claims regarding the alleged relationship between Trump and members of the Russian intelligence community, as well as assertions that his campaign colluded with the Kremlin in the 2016 election.While a few allegations were corroborated (which Insider's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/steele-dossier-allegations-trump-russia-mueller-investigation-2019-1#whats-been-corroborated-and-what-hasnt-2">Sonam Sheth broke down</a>), much of the information within the document has since been refuted. Steele has said that he was still investigating and his research was not meant for public viewing, but his memos were leaked just weeks before Trump took office in January 2017. The Clinton campaign and the DNC paid more than $1 million to the law firm Perkins Coie, which hired Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research, the FEC letter said. Fusion GPS then hired Steele to create the dossier.In the Tuesday letter, the FEC said it dismissed similar complaints against Steele, Perkins Coi and Fusion GPS.Neither the DNC, nor a representative for Clinton immediately responded to Insider's request for comment. The Clinton Campaign and the DNC did not admit to violating campaign finance laws, according to the FEC letter, however, they did agree to accept the civil fines to settle the matter.

FEC fines Hilary Clinton campaign, DNC for improperly disclosing money spent on Trump-Russia dossier

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Capitol Hill resident found the <keyword id="12395822" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pipe-bomb" source="Orion">pipe bomb</keyword> on <keyword id="11897870" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="january-6" source="Orion">January 6</keyword> near the <keyword id="12395823" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="republican-national-committee" source="Orion">Republican National Committee</keyword>.</li><li>At first, <keyword id="12395821" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="karlin-younger" source="Orion">Karlin Younger</keyword> thought it was a recyclable object - until she saw the caps and timer.</li></ul>Karlin Younger's wine-stained sweater was still wet when she left her laundry room early in the afternoon of January 6, leaned into the gate of an alley on Capitol Hill, and caught a glimpse of something metallic by the garbage bin.Thinking someone had simply missed the container, she stopped to recycle the mystery object. "Because I'm about that life," she said. Only as Younger drew closer did she notice the caps at both ends. And the timer."You're just staring at it, and you're like, 'Okay, it's definitely metal.' But there's like wires attached to it, and there's a timer attached to it. What am I looking at? It's not immediately obvious because you're just really, really not expecting anything," Younger recalled in an interview with Insider for its <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/january-6-oral-history-capitol-attack-insurrection-timeline-investigation-2021-10">comprehensive oral history</a> of the events surrounding the pro-Trump insurrection at the US Capitol. "You're not on high alert," she added. "You don't think you're under attack. I'm not in Iraq. This is Capitol Hill. And I just see this, and it was the fact it was capped on both ends that made me start to worry that this wasn't just a part from a car or a bike or something, and it was that timer that really got me to be like, 'Wait a minute.'"So Younger ran. First she went around the corner to the Capitol Hill Club, an exclusive haunt popular among Republican lawmakers near the Capitol. But no one was there.Then she went to the headquarters of the Republican National Committee. A security guard agreed to take a look for himself at what Younger suspected to be a pipe bomb near the building."He walks over, he leans over and just goes, 'Holy shit that's a bomb.' And I was like, 'I knew it, I knew it, I knew this didn't look right.'"Soon, police arrived on-scene and evacuated her apartment building. In her haste to leave, Younger left her coffee pot on. Outside on the corner, she waited for two hours as federal and local authorities responded. In the crackle of a police radio, she heard someone say, "Get to the DNC." At the Democratic National Committee blocks away, police found and disarmed a similar device.<div type="image" title="Karlin Younger" height="2274" width="3024" msid="87290330" hostid="261"></div><h2>'This wasn't just violence'</h2>In the almost 10 months since January 6, the Justice Department has <a href="https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1">brought more than 600 prosecutions</a> and the House has mounted an investigation amid a national reckoning with a deadly attack on the seat of American democracy. But the pipe bombs remain a mystery and linger on as a reminder that, for all the violence of January 6, the day could have gone much worse.Younger spent that evening at a friend's house. She watched the TV coverage of the hordes of Trump supporters storming the Capitol, all the while fielding text messages from family and friends asking if she was OK."You started to understand this wasn't just violence, this wasn't just a breach, this is more," she said. "After I called off for the rest of the day, my friend's husband just comes with a bottle of wine and two glasses. If it wasn't for them, I don't know what I would have done.""We were all just trying to figure out what's going on, everyone's talking to each other, the news is on in the background. It was just disbelief, jaw-dropping disbelief at some of the images that we've now become used to but at the time seemed impossible."The next morning, Younger returned home and was happy to find the coffee pot had not exploded after being left on overnight. The <keyword id="11964162" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fbi" source="Orion">FBI</keyword> asked for tips, and at the urging of friends, she called in to identify herself as the woman who discovered the pipe bomb and helped alert local authorities.The following Monday, the FBI called."I didn't think I did anything special," she said. But the agent saw things differently."You don't understand," the agent said, "that there are people who wouldn't have said anything."Check out the full oral history <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/january-6-oral-history-capitol-attack-insurrection-timeline-investigation-2021-10">here</a>.

The Washington DC resident who found a pipe bomb on January 6 initially thought it was something to recycle

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former <keyword id="365367" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="DNC">DNC</keyword> chair <keyword id="1598372" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tom-Perez">Tom Perez</keyword> said his party should change how it votes for a presidential nominee.</li><li>"The status quo is clearly unacceptable," Perez said in an interview with The New York Times.</li><li>Perez said a more diverse state or set of states should vote before either <keyword id="3046" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Iowa">Iowa</keyword> or <keyword id="822202" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-Hampshire">New Hampshire</keyword>.</li></ul>Democrats cannot keep voting like it's 1972, according to former party chairman <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dnc-tom-perez-2020-democrats-need-talk-foreign-policy-2019-6">Tom Perez</a>, who said it's time to let others go first when it comes time to select a presidential nominee."The status quo is clearly unacceptable," Perez, who headed the Democratic National Committee during the 2020 nomination process, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/us/politics/tom-perez-maryland-democrats.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=HomepageHomepage">said in an interview</a> published Sunday by The New York Times.For nearly 50 years, Iowa has been the first state to weigh in on who should lead the Democrats into the general election, followed soon after by New Hampshire. In 1972, that was a progressive reform: Previously, party elites made the choice with little direct input from their party's voters.But both states are overwhelmingly white, far more so than the general public and the Democratic electorate in particular."A diverse state or states need to be first," Perez said. "The difference between going first and going third is really important. We know the importance of momentum in Democratic <keyword id="360957" type="EVENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="primaries">primaries</keyword>."In 2020, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/iowa-democratic-caucus-tech-issues-2020-2">the Iowa caucuses</a> were narrowly won by now-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-wins-new-hampshire-primary-making-him-the-frontrunner-2020-2">taking New Hampshire</a>. Sanders also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-win-nevada-democratic-caucuses-sweeps-three-contests-2020-2">won the next state</a>, Nevada, the first with a significant population of color.However, it wasn't until the fourth contest, in South Carolina, that a state with a large Black population voted. That state was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-wins-the-south-carolina-democratic-primary-2020-2">won by President Joe Biden</a>."This is the Democratic Party of 2020," Perez said. "It's different from the Democratic Party in how we were in 1972. And we need to reflect that change. And so I am confident that the status quo is not going to survive."Have a news tip? Email this reporter: <a href="mailto:cdavis@insider.com">cdavis@insider.com</a>

Iowa and New Hampshire shouldn't vote first anymore, says former DNC chair Tom Perez: 'The status quo is clearly unacceptable.'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>November will mark the first <keyword id="6358499" type="DEFINITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Presidential-election">presidential election</keyword> that's not bound by the terms of the 1982 consent decree. </li><li>The decades-old agreement between the Republican and Democratic national committees limits the RNC's participation in <keyword id="7536689" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="voter-intimidation">voter intimidation</keyword> and suppression tactics.</li><li>It was set after the DNC accused the RNC of engaging in voter intimidation when off-duty officers were sent to patrol <keyword id="43546" type="EVENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Voting">voting</keyword> in New Jersey communities of color in 1981.</li><li>One concern is that the RNC will once again send off-duty officers to the polls in neighborhoods with large populations of people of color, where residents are skeptical of <keyword id="11098" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="police">police</keyword> presence.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet"></a>For nearly 40 years, the <keyword id="527080" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Republican-National-Committee">Republican National Committee</keyword> was barred from engaging in voter intimidation tactics and "ballot security" measures like <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/Democracy/dnc.v.rnc/1981%20complaint.pdf">paying law enforcement to appear at polling sites</a>. But in 2018, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-gop-just-received-another-tool-for-suppressing-votes/550052/">a federal judge lifted the restriction</a>, ending the 1982 consent decree. This year will be the first time in nearly four decades that a presidential <keyword id="6359191" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="election">election</keyword> is held without this agreement in place — an addition to the heap of challenges already influencing voters amid a global health crisis. The coronavirus pandemic has upended US elections, bringing on <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-update-states-that-have-postponed-2020-primaries.html">postponed primaries</a>, changes to in-person polling sites, and a battle over <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/vote-by-mail-coronavirus-election-ballot-2020-5">expanded vote-by-mail</a>. "We've never seen a presidential election quite like this one because the dynamics of it are just so different," Jon Greenbaum, chief counsel and senior deputy director for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, told Business Insider.In 1981, Democrats accused Republican officials of voter suppression after the RNC sent off-duty police officers to patrol polling sites in Black and Latino neighborhoods, Greenbaum said. The DNC and RNC agreed to settle the case rather than go to court, leading to limitations in the ways the RNC can monitor voting. Republicans did not <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/07/nyregion/republicans-agree-in-lawsuit-to-avoid-intimidating-voters.html">admit to any wrongdoing</a> but agreed to stop policing communities of color. Since then, DNC officials invoked the agreement multiple times in the course of its near-40-year run, acting as a check on the RNC if it engaged in dubious tactics on or ahead of Election Day.<h2>Voting rights groups are on the lookout for intimidation</h2>"In New Jersey, what you had was you had off duty state and local <keyword id="691011" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="law-enforcement">law enforcement</keyword> people outside the polls with guns, with walkie-talkies, with armbands, that were identifying themselves as being ballot security. You could have a repeat of that," Greenbaum told Business Insider, adding that such intimidation tactics are likely to happen "particularly in an election that's as charged as this one — and in a country that's charged as it is right now."While it's a <a href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter29&amp;edition=prelimelim">federal violation to participate in voter intimidation</a> of any kind, voter suppression remains a concern for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-black-americans-still-face-obstacles-to-voting-at-every-step-2020-6">historically disenfranchised communities</a>.Earlier this month, President Donald <keyword id="6354862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trump">Trump</keyword> said he'd want to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hannity-law-enforcement-polls-election-day-voter-fraud-2020-8">police officers stationed at polling sites</a> to prevent alleged voter fraud.When reached for comment, Trump 2020 General Counsel Matthew Morgan told Business Insider that "Republicans are committed to making sure the polls are being run correctly, securely, and transparently to deliver the free and fair election Americans deserve."Voting-rights groups remain on alert, watching for threats and actions like sending law enforcement to voting sites that could signal the potential for voter intimidation and suppression.If officers are placed at polling sites this November, just as they were in 1981, "one of the things that we would do is go to court," Greenbaum said. There's also concern that the RNC might once again engage in tactics like this. When the decree came to an end in 2018, experts warned that Trump could try to push RNC officials into deploying law enforcement officers to the polls for him. "If he tries to use the RNC in this activity, there's now nothing under this consent decree that would stop him," said Richard Hasen, an election law expert from the University of California, Irvine, in <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/576858203/decades-old-consent-decree-lifted-against-rncs-ballot-security-measures">a 2018 interview with NPR</a>. "And so I do think to the extent that Trump controls the RNC, we may see more activities aimed at so-called ballot security, which could be seen as suppressing the votes of minority voters."The Trump campaign privately acknowledged in November that the end of the 1982 decree was "<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-campaign-2020-voter-suppression-consent-decree-1028988/">a huge, huge, huge, huge deal</a>" for Republicans and for the president. The RNC has already put together a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/Voting-republicans-trump.html">$20 million plan that pays for up to 50,000 volunteers</a> to surveil voters and polling sites in 15 crucial states. These volunteers are tasked with disputing what they consider suspicious voters or ballots.Mandi Merritt, national press secretary at the RNC, said in a statement to Business Insider that Republicans are focused on "getting more people to vote, certainly not less.""Now that the playing field has been leveled, we can do what Democrats and other Republican groups have been able to do for decades: ensure that all votes are counted properly and that more people can vote through our unmatched field program," Merritt said.When reached for comment, a DNC official detailed to Business Insider various practices the organization has in place to stay on top of voter intimidation tactics. The group will have lawyers and volunteers present at polling sites around the country, for example, who will ensure that everyone who shows up to vote in person counts. The official also directed Business Insider to <a href="https://iwillvote.com/">IWillVote.com</a>, a website set up and paid for by the DNC that provides people in every state with information on how to make sure their vote counts in November.The DNC will also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/Voting-republicans-trump.html">train and deploy its own poll watchers</a> with the goals of increasing voter turnout for Democratic candidates and keeping an eye out for any improper practices by Republicans.Several states told Business Insider that there are no plans to deploy local law enforcement to polling sites in November. But at least five states said they have a law in place that allows them to do so. If voters experience attempts at suppression or fraud, they can contact the Election Protection Hotline by calling 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

There's nothing stopping the RNC from using voter intimidation tactics in November now that a decades-old agreement has ended, experts warn

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The wildly popular social app <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/tiktok">TikTok</a> is owned and operated by a Chinese company, <keyword id="3749909" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bytedance">ByteDance</keyword>, prompting critics to accuse it of being a tool for the Chinese government to collect data.</li><li>As such, both major US political parties have warned staff members not to use the app on their personal devices, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/dnc-warning-tiktok/">according to CNN</a>.</li><li>Representatives for both parties cited security as the reason for warning staff. "If you are using <keyword id="6762469" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="TikTok">TikTok</keyword> for campaign work, we recommend using a separate phone and account," the Democratic staff memo said.</li></ul>Both major US political parties have warned their staff members not to use <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/tiktok">TikTok</a>, the wildly popular social app that's owned and operated by the Chinese company ByteDance, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/dnc-warning-tiktok/">CNN reports</a>.Representatives for both the <keyword id="527080" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Republican-National-Committee">Republican National Committee</keyword> and the Democratic National Committee cited security concerns with TikTok as the reason, as critics have suggested the app could be used as a data-collection tool for the Chinese government. "The <keyword id="274979" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="RNC">RNC</keyword> has advised employees and stakeholders to not download the TikTok app on their personal devices," the RNC's national press secretary, Mandi Merritt, told CNN. Merritt pointed to "security concerns" as the reason for the advisory.Similarly, the <keyword id="365367" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="DNC">DNC</keyword> warned staff back in December about TikTok."If you are using TikTok for campaign work, we recommend using a separate phone and account," a memo obtained by CNN said. The memo reportedly warned DNC staff members about both TikTok and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-apps-counterintelligence-threat-fbi-2019-12">a Russian app named FaceApp</a>.<div type="image" title="charli d'amelio tiktok" height="1500" width="2000" msid="76943169" hostid="261"></div>ByteDance issued a statement regarding the warnings."We are fully committed to protecting our users' privacy and security," the statement said. "Under the leadership of our American CEO, along with our Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Safety, TikTok's growing US team works diligently to develop a best-in-class security infrastructure and uphold our Community Guidelines which prohibit misleading and inauthentic content and accounts."President Donald Trump's administration has warned that the app could be outright banned in the US. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pompeo-says-us-certainly-considering-banning-tiktok-fox-news-2020-7">Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said</a> TikTok users risked their data ending up "in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party."Got a tip? Contact Business Insider senior correspondent Ben Gilbert via email (<a href="mailto:bgilbert@businessinsider.com">bgilbert@businessinsider.com</a>), or Twitter DM (<a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenGilbert">@realbengilbert</a>). We can keep sources anonymous. Use a non-work device to reach out. PR pitches by email only, please.

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