... Fighting corruption and support[ing] judicial independence are vital to Romania’s long-term prosperity and security.” But Rudy Giuliani “appeared to contradict the U.S. State Department’s existing policy position” in August 2018 by writing a letter, at the request of former FBI director Louis Freeh, to Romania’s president “claiming Romania’s National Anticorruption Directorate had crossed the line of acceptable behavior.” Giuliani “requested amnesty be granted to various people prosecuted in Romania, shortly after the State Department urged Romania to continue its ‘considerable progress in combatting corruption and building effective rule of law.’”