{"id":22003,"date":"2025-06-10T18:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=22003"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:38:05","slug":"several-agencies-spied-on-foreign-musk-associates-during-biden-years-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=22003","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Several Agencies&#8217; Spied On Foreign Musk Associates During Biden Years: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In the final years of President Biden\u2019s term,<strong>\u00a0as Elon Musk began<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>publicly criticizing Democrats and shifted his support to Donald Trump,\u00a0<\/strong>multiple federal agencies launched a quiet but sweeping inquiry into Musk&#8217;s foreign associates.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/unnamed_file_from_www.politico.com_.jpg_92%282%29_0.jpg?itok=We493-XA\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"44f1e153-afc3-4398-b71e-aa69b93da5dc\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Francis Chung\/POLITICO<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The investigation, reported by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/national-security\/elon-musk-visitors-homeland-security-dbf96364?mod=e2tw\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, involved\u00a0<strong>the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department, and included briefings to officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/strong>. It focused on foreign nationals \u2014 particularly from Eastern Europe and other sensitive geopolitical regions &#8211; who were seen traveling to and from Musk\u2019s private properties in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>While the probe never led to formal charges and its current status remains unclear, it smacks of yet another politically motivated investigation, while government defenders may argue it was warranted given Musk&#8217;s proximity to America\u2019s most closely guarded government secrets. The inquiry predated Trump\u2019s return to power in January and was allegedly prompted in part by concerns that foreign actors could attempt to sway or compromise the influential CEO.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/several-agencies-spied-foreign-musk-associates-during-biden-years-report\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/several-agencies-spied-foreign-musk-associates-during-biden-years-report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}