Scott Atlas apologizes for interview with Kremlin-backed RT
Source: Politico
Scott Atlas, a White House policy adviser on the coronavirus, apologized on Sunday for “allowing myself to be taken advantage of” by a Russian media outlet backed by the Kremlin.
Atlas said he spoke to RT without realizing the company’s foreign ties.
“I recently did an interview with RT and was unaware they are a registered foreign agent,” tweeted Atlas, a neuroradiologist who joined the White House in August. “I regret doing the interview and apologize for allowing myself to be taken advantage of. I especially apologize to the national security community who is working hard to defend us.”
The Foreign Agents Registration Act “requires certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities … to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities,” according to the Justice Department.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/01/scott-atlas-apologizes-interview-kremlin-433795
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just another lying liar. 
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