Center for Public Integrity
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The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern. The Center is non-partisan and non-advocacy and committed to transparent and comprehensive reporting both in the United States and around the world. The Center's mission is to produce original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make institutional power more transparent and accountable. Located in Washington, DC, the Center for Public Integrity has conducted investigations into many topics; the environment, ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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House GOP criticizes White House visitor logs
House Republicans criticized the Obama administration for failing to disclose the names of thousands of visitors to the White House and suggested Obama staff met with ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
National biomass debate intensifies with new limits in Massachussetts
The debate over biomass plants – pitched as a way to produce power while protecting the environment, but derided by critics as anything but green – intensified this week ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
Back to school for the billionaires
Microsoft chairman Gates, computer magnate Michael Dell, investor Eli Broad, and the Walton family of Wal-Mart fame have collectively poured some $4.4 billion into school ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
Koch buys online advertising to attack report on its lobbying influence
Koch Industries has launched an online advertising campaign to rebut a Center for Public Integrity report about its lobbying activities that it refused to respond to when the ...Posted by Michael Shaver -
Fact Check: The (high) price of a shutdown
Claim: As Washington teetered on the budgetary brink, House Speaker John Boehner last week sounded an alarm. "If you shut the government down,” he asserted, “it'll end up ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Koch’s web of influence
At an EPA hearing last summer, representatives from Koch Industries argued that moderate levels of the toxic chemical dioxin should not be designated as a cancer risk for humans.Posted by Jon Mitchell -
Saints and sinners
Newt Gingrich is straddling a fine line: Even as he courts evangelicals wary of his two divorces, a Gingrich political committee has taken millions from a casino titan whose ...Posted by Michael Shaver -
The million-dollar weapon
In the opening days of the assault on Libya, the United States and the United Kingdom launched a barrage of at least 161 Tomahawk cruise missiles to flatten Moammar ...Posted by Michael Shaver -
Border agents unwittingly freed suspects near border with weapons from federal sting
The episode — confirmed by the Center for Public Integrity through interviews, internal agency memos and court records — highlights major gaps in the U.S. war on Mexican ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
Maryland challenges online payday lender owned by tribal member
Western Sky Financial’s website features a logo with three teepees and a toll-free number for customers to apply for an overnight loan. A notice at the bottom of the page ...Posted by Fabrice Florin



