Among the Center’s “firsts,” was the disclosure of the use of the Lincoln Bedroom for political contributors in the Clinton administration (“Fat Cat Hotel”): the posting on the Center’s website of the secret Patriot II Act draft legislation; and reporting that Halliburton was the largest private contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan (“Windfalls of War”). The Center’s quadrennial book project, The Buying of the President, was a best-seller in 2004 and work is well underway for 2008 at www.buyingofthepresident.org.

The National Journal referred to the Center as a “watchdog in the corridors of power”; Kevin Phillips wrote: “No other investigative organization shines so many probing flashlights into so many Washington dirty-laundry baskets”; the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said the Center is “an indispensable truth-teller in a treacherous time”; and the late John Kenneth Galbraith observed, “Nothing is so inconvenient, so unwelcome and often so powerful as the cold truth. This, the [Center] for our pleasure and for our benefit provides.”

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