The Public I podcast series, hosted by Bill Buzenberg, features our reporters and sources discussing the Center's latest investigations.

Public I podcast 6/29/09
Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter Caitlin Ginley about the Center’s latest state-by-state survey of financial disclosure laws.

Public I podcast 6/11/09
Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter M.B. Pell about the 22,000+ trips that Department of Defense personnel took on the dime of outside interests — many of whom do business with the Pentagon.

Public I podcast 6/4/09
Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter Leo Sisti about one of Europe’s largest smuggling operations in recent years — a multi-billion dollar operation involving the Italian Mafia and the tiny country of Montenegro.

Public I podcast 5/21/09
Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter Marianne Lavelle about the climate change lobby.

Public I Podcast 5/14/09 (MP3)
Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter Kat Aaron about the government’s failure to regulate the subprime lending industry.

Public I Podcast 5/6/09 (MP3)
Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter John Dunbar about the top 25 subprime lenders and their role in the current financial crisis.

Public I Podcast 4/22/09 (MP3)
Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter Marianne Lavelle about a controversial new voice shaping the climate change debate on Capitol Hill.

Public I Podcast 4/16/09 (MP3)
Bill Buzenberg talks to Michael Zuckerman, editor of the Center’s Land Use Accountability Project, about the role that inflated home appraisals played in the recent mortgage crisis.

Public I Podcast 4/1/09 (MP3)
Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter Nick Schwellenbach about the lack of scrutiny of contracts awarded by the Department of Defense to private companies.

Public I Podcast 3/18/09 (MP3)
Bill Buzenberg discusses the hard realities that will test the Obama Administration’s desire to change the way Washington works.

Public I Podcast 3/3/09 (MP3)
Bill Buzenberg talks to the Center’s Marianne Lavelle about a 300 percent increase in climate lobbyists over the past five years.

Public I Podcast 2/17/09 (MP3)
Bill Buzenberg talks to the Center’s Kristen Lombardi about the long-term dangers of coal-ash disposal.

Public I Podcast 2/3/09 (MP3)
Bill Buzenberg talks to the Center’s Josh Israel about executive branch failures over the past eight years and the steps the new administration is taking to fix a number of them.

Broken Government (MP3)
Center Director Bill Buzenberg talks with Dr. Thomas E. Mann, governance studies senior fellow and W. Averell Harriman chair at the Brookings Institution.

Perils of the New Pesticides (MP3)
Buzenberg, reporter M.B. Pell and the EPA’s Debra Edwards discuss the use of pyrethrins and pyrethroids.

The Buying of the President 2008: Broken Elections, Stolen Votes (MP3)
It’s been almost eight years since President George W. Bush took home an election that some Americans still think of as “stolen.” In the fourth part of our series on money in the presidential race, the Center for Public Integrity investigates how campaigns can manipulate electoral results.

Pushing Prescriptions (MP3)
An annual investigation into the pharmaceutical lobby.

The Buying of the President 2008: Dirty Politics (MP3)
The primary season is finally ending, and the presidential candidates are ready to spend millions of dollars on casting their opponent in the worst light possible. Those “dirty politics” are the third topic in the Center for Public Integrity’s series on money in the presidential race.

The Buying of the President 2008: Stealth Campaigns (MP3)
The Independent Committees Shaping the Presidential Race are the second topic in the Center for Public Integrity’s series on money in the presidential race.

The Buying of the President 2008: The Longest Campaign (MP3)
The history of big money in presidential politics…and the efforts to do something about it are the first topic in the Center for Public Integrity’s series on money in the presidential race.

Great Lakes Danger Zones? (MP3)
A report on a suppressed study about environmental hazards in the Great Lakes region.

Iraq: The War Card (MP3)
Bill Buzenberg presents the Iraq: The War Card project, with comments by Center for Public Integrity founder and project director and creator Charles Lewis and former Representative Lee H. Hamilton.