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[tulzscha]

Oh, and illegal, unethical, unscrupulous, and intentional donations.

As the Powerline reader has noted, if "John Galt" of "Ayn Rand Lane" attempts a contribution at the McCain campaign, it gets rejected. Which is just as well. If the Republican candidate's website were intentionally set up to facilitate fraudulent donations, it would be on the

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[tulzscha]

Well, no. If you looked link, you'll see that the restrictions on foreign donations have been in place for a lot longer -- since the '60s.

The ban on political contributions and expenditures by foreign nationals was first enacted in 1966 as part of the amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), an "internal security" statute. The goal of the FARA was to minimize foreign intervention in U.S. elections by establishing a series of limitations on foreign nationals. These included registration requirements for the agents of foreign principals and a general prohibition on political contributions by foreign nationals. In 1974, the prohibition was incorporated into the Federal Election Campaign Act (the FECA), [HTML] [PDF] giving the Federal Election Commission (FEC) jurisdiction over its enforcement and interpretation.

In other words, the part of FECA concerning foreign nationals is much older than BCRA. (BCRA = McCain-Feingold = an amendment to FECA)

The online brochure version of the stuff was published in 2003, maybe that's what mislead you?