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  1. February 14, 2008

    Rice in the Hot Seat

    WASHINGTON, February 14, 2008 — An influential member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs grilled Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on February 13, citing a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity on the Bush administration's campaign of misinformation to sell the Iraq war. Read more

  2. August 31, 2007

    Lesson from Durham

    WASHINGTON, August 31, 2007 — On June 16, the Disciplinary Hearing Commission of the North Carolina State Bar applied its maximum penalty to Mike Nifong, the Durham County prosecutor who attempted to frame three innocent students for a “crime” that did not occur. The commission disbarred Nifong, who, a day earlier, had announced that he would resign. Read more

  3. June 04, 2007

    Center in the News: Superfund Reports Embolden Democrats, Prompt Industry Criticism

    The following story appeared on InsideEPA.com on June 4, 2007: Read more

  4. March 26, 2007

    Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.: A Remembrance

    WASHINGTON, March 26, 2007 — In the last hours of February, at the age of 89, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. passed from this world. Not only did America lose its last great public historian, as Sam Tanenhaus recently wrote in The New York Times, but on a much more personal level, The Fund for Independence in Journalism and the Center for Public Integrity in Washington lost a wonderful, devoted friend. Read more

  5. March 23, 2007

    The Center Remembers Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

    WASHINGTON, March 23, 2007 — "Fearless inquiry is essential to give people the knowledge that makes democracy possible and that keeps it sane." — Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Read more

  6. March 16, 2007

    Passing the Bucks

    WASHINGTON, March 16, 2007 — Representative Steny Hoyer, an aggressive fundraiser for the successful 2006 campaign for Democrats to take control of the House, raised nearly $1 million for congressional candidates by exploiting what experts call a legal loophole, according to records analyzed by the Center for Public Integrity. Read more

  7. March 28, 2006

    Senate Rejects Office of Public Integrity

    WASHINGTON, March 28, 2006 — The U.S. Senate defeated today, by a vote of 67-30, an amendment by Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) to create an independent Office of Public Integrity to oversee lobbying disclosure. Read more

  8. March 17, 2006

    Fund-raising Groups at a Glance

    WASHINGTON, March 17, 2006 — Politicians spend much of their time and energy raising money to fund ever-more-costly election campaigns. They say it is a necessary evil, though critics of current campaign finance laws say the rules allow widespread abuse and corrupt practices. Here's a glossary of terms to explain what some of the organizations involved in fund-raising are and what candidates can do with the money they amass. Read more

  9. March 17, 2006

    Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss?

    WASHINGTON, March 17, 2006 — When Representative John Boehner, R-Ohio, was elected House majority leader on February 2, he presented himself as a new kind of leader — someone who would rise above doing business as usual, a departure from the aggressive tactics and ethical tight-rope walking of his predecessor, Tom "The Hammer" DeLay. Read more

  10. January 31, 2006

    Draft Legislation Undercuts Bush Domestic Spying Rationale

    WASHINGTON, January 31, 2006 — A Justice Department memo written in 2003 may call into question the legal rationale the Bush administration has offered to justify electronic surveillance of Americans without court review. Read more

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