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  1. June 29, 2007

    Center Leading Effort to Disclose Broadband Records

    WASHINGTON, D.C. June 29, 2007 — The Center for Public Integrity's efforts to ensure that government information about broadband deployment is made available to the public have created considerable interest among industry players and associations seeking to block access to broadband records based on competitive concerns. Read more

  2. June 26, 2007

    Geneva Overholser Named Center Board Chair

    WASHINGTON, D.C. June 26, 2007 — The Center for Public Integrity is pleased to announce the election of Geneva Overholser to lead its board of directors. Overholser, who has served on the Center's board for the past two years, was named during the June board meeting to succeed co-founding board member and chairman Charles Piller, who will step down to join the Center's advisory board. Read more

  3. June 21, 2007

    $2.4 Billion in Hurricane Contracts Offer Profit Guarantees, Center Study Finds

    WASHINGTON, D.C. June 21, 2007 — Three federal agencies responding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita awarded more than $2.4 billion in contracts using a controversial form of pricing that critics say offers no incentive for cost savings, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity. Read more

  4. June 19, 2007

    Center Website Wins Edward R. Murrow National Award

    WASHINGTON, D.C. June 19, 2007 — The Center for Public Integrity's Website was honored Monday by the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) with a 2007 Edward R. Murrow Award in the small market non-broadcast category. Read more

  5. June 12, 2007

    Center Helps Organize Conference on Broadband Issues

    WASHINGTON, D.C. June 12, 2007 — Is U.S. broadband adoption keeping pace with other countries? How can American legislators, regulators and citizens better track broadband policy? What data do policy-makers need to make crucial broadband policy decisions? Experts from industry, journalism, think tanks and interest groups will convene to discuss these and other questions at a June 28th forum. Read more

  6. June 07, 2007

    U.S. Anti-Terror and Anti-Drug War Benefit Colombian Government, Despite Human Rights Concerns

    WASHINGTON, D.C. June 7, 2007 — Despite a post-9/11 shift to emphasize terrorism in the U.S.-backed fight against drugs in Colombia, policy goals have been stymied by ongoing human rights violations and a wave of scandals linking scores of government officials to paramilitary groups designated by the United States as terrorist groups, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Read more

  7. May 31, 2007

    U.S. Post-9/11 Anti-Terrorism Policies: Enemies in Asia

    WASHINGTON, D.C. May 31, 2007 — While U.S. efforts to combat terrorism have been somewhat successful in Asia, they have come at the expense of a deteriorating human rights situation in countries receiving record amounts of military aid, according to a series of investigations by the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Read more

  8. May 30, 2007

    U.S. Anti-Terror Campaign Adopts Questionable Tactics

    WASHINGTON, D.C. May 30, 2007 — U.S. efforts to combat terrorism in the post-9/11 era have been marred by adoption of controversial anti-terrorism tactics from countries with documented human rights violations, according to a series of investigations by the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Tactics such as abductions and "targeted killings" have attracted the ire of some of the most committed U.S. allies as U.S. military aid continues to flow despite the criticisms. Read more

  9. May 24, 2007

    Post-9/11 U.S. Policies on Terrorism Alienating Allies, Creating Enemies

    WASHINGTON, D.C. May 24, 2007 — Since September 11, 2001, U.S. counterterrorism and military assistance — including what critics argue are "extralegal" policies and practices that include "extraordinary renditions" — has strained transatlantic relations, according to a series of investigations by the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Read more

  10. May 22, 2007

    U.S. Foreign Lobbying, Terrorism Influencing Post-9/11 U.S. Military Aid and Human Rights

    WASHINGTON, D.C. May 22, 2007 — Lobbying by foreign governments and concerns over terrorism have dramatically shifted U.S. military assistance programs in the post-9/11 era, according to a year-long investigation by the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Read more

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The Center’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is a collaboration of some of the world’s leading investigative reporters. ICIJ extends globally the Center’s style of watchdog journalism, working with 100 reporters in 50 countries to produce long-term, transnational projects.

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