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  1. September 27, 2000

    Media Firms Buy Their Way to Political Access

    WASHINGTON, D.C. September 27, 2000 — The largest media firms have gained the kind of access to the political process that only money can buy, according to a new report from the Center for Public Integrity. "Off the Record: What Media Corporations Don't Tell You About Their Legislative Agendas" documents the influence that the large broadcasting, cable and publishing conglomerates wield in Washington. Read more

  2. April 27, 2000

    Army General Had Business Deal With Clinton-Gore Money Man

    WASHINGTON, D.C. April 27, 2000 — Lt. Gen. Claudia J. Kennedy, the first female three-star general in the history of the U.S. Army and the accuser in a sexual harassment scandal, was in business with controversial Democratic money man Terence McAuliffe for almost two years, The Public i has learned. Read more

  3. March 30, 2000

    Pentagon Trained Troops Led by Officer Accused In Colombian Massacre

    WASHINGTON, D.C. March 30, 2000 — Pentagon officials, under pressure to investigate alleged links between elite U.S. military trainers and Colombian forces implicated in a 1997 civilian massacre, have confirmed that they trained soldiers commanded by the officer accused of masterminding the attack. Read more

  4. March 21, 2000

    $5,000 Buys Companies Access to GOP Attorneys General

    WASHINGTON, D.C. March 21, 2000 — For as little as $5,000, corporations are buying access to presidential candidate George W. Bush, along with key Bush strategist Karl Rove—not to mention potential protection from billions of dollars in lawsuits. Read more

  5. March 02, 2000

    Commentary: Under the Influence: Why This Series?

    WASHINGTON, March 2, 2000 — British statesman George Canning wrote more than a century ago: "Away with the cant of 'measures, not men!' the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariots along." Information for citizens about the elaborate electoral process (a.k.a. "the horse race") and individual candidate statements and policy positions is obviously very interesting and important every four years as the most powerful nation on earth peacefully transfers power, and most news media coverage focuses heavily on these aspects. Read more

  6. February 24, 2000

    Candidates’ Positions on Rwanda Genocide: Should U.S. Intervene?

    WASHINGTON, D.C. February 24, 2000 — Steve Bradshaw and Mike Robinson won the 1999 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting for a BBC documentary exposing deliberate international inaction to stop the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Read more

  7. February 11, 2000

    McCain Tax Bill Would Save Corporate Contributors Millions

    WASHINGTON, D.C. February 11, 2000 — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has talked at length about tax cuts that would benefit lower- and middle-income taxpayers. He has also said that most of those cuts would be financed by closing loopholes in the tax code that are enjoyed by those corporations flooding Washington with campaign contributions. What the Arizona senator doesn't talk much about is a bill he proposed in October that would enrich a few of those well-heeled corporations — the large telecommunications firms that have bankrolled much of his political career. Read more

  8. January 25, 2000

    Steve Forbes, Cattle Farmer

    WASHINGTON, D.C. January 25, 2000 — Steve Forbes' signature line in his 2000 campaign is, "Steve Forbes: He wants you to win." But who's the "you" in his slogan? Read more

  9. January 18, 2000

    How George W. Bush Scored Big With the Texas Rangers

    WASHINGTON, D.C. January 18, 2000 — When George W. Bush first embarked on a deal to buy the Texas Rangers professional baseball team in 1988, he already had his eye on the governor's mansion in Austin. But he knew that to have a shot at winning, he would need better credentials than a string of unsuccessful oil companies and a failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1989 he told Time magazine, "My biggest liability in Texas is the question, 'What's the boy ever done?' He could be riding on Daddy's name." Read more

  10. January 11, 2000

    How the Gores, Father and Son, Helped Their Patron Occidental Petroleum

    WASHINGTON, D.C. January 11, 2000 — On Sept. 7, 1995, Vice President Albert Gore Jr., stood on the White House lawn and talked in sweeping terms about ending the era of big government. He touted a list of recommendations formulated by the National Performance Review, an initiative Gore directed that he claimed streamlined the federal bureaucracy, cut unnecessary waste and helped make the government "work better and cost less." Gore said that his report, delivered to President Clinton that day, would continue the drive to "reinvent government." Read more

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