As the country focused on special counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month-long investigation, the Justice Department was ramping up its efforts to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

In a recent interview with the Washington Examiner, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Adam Hickey of the National Security Division stressed the Justice Department was going to prioritize enforcement of Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, well beyond the end of the Mueller investigation. “I think the statute is really smart and really good, because — you’ve got this problem of malign foreign influence, right? So what do you do about it?” Hickey said.