Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon said the mainstream media must investigate the permanent political class on a weekly basis for there to be real change in Washington, D.C. Bannon, Peter Schweizer, the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), and Fox
Wealth in Washington, DC has surged to the highest median income in the United States, surpassing even tech mecca Silicon Valley, California. With a median household income of $119,134, the Census Bureau reports that Loudoun County, Virginia now occupies the
In “Boomtown,” a blockbuster one-hour investigative special that aired Friday on Fox News’ “Hannity,” Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), and Steve Bannon, Breitbart News’ Executive Chairman, revealed a study discovered that for every dollar corporations spent on lobbying in 2004,
Washington, a town that produces nothing, is awash in money. D.C. has become a boomtown, a place where politicians, lobbyists, and special interests leverage their crony connections to bag billions in insider perks and government contracts funded by taxpayer money.
Fox News on Tuesday announced a “Sean Hannity Special–‘Boomtown: Washington, the Imperial City,’” scheduled to air on Friday, January 25th at 9 PM EST. “Boomtown: Washington, The Imperial City” reveals how Washington’s power elite leverage their crony connections to vacuum
Throughout the 2012 election cycle, Breitbart News provided extensive coverage of the threat of illegal foreign and fraudulent online campaign donations. The Government Accountability Institute’s comprehensive 108-page report–“America The Vulnerable: Are Foreign and Fraudulent Online Campaign Contributions Influencing U.S. Elections?”–revealed
A new report from TIME shows that fundraising for Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign exceeded that of 2008, realizing over a billion dollars in campaign donations. Online donations also surpassed levels from Obama’s first run, up from $500 million in 2008
The Obama campaign accepted two online donations from “Osama bin Laden” made from a Pakistani Internet Protocol (IP) address using a disposable credit card and a phony address. Staff members at World Net Daily say they made the fake donations
The Chinese government has suddenly blocked access to Obama.com throughout mainland China, and the Obama campaign website now shows error messages to Chinese visitors. The startling developments come just days after the New York Post and Breitbart News ran extensive reports on Obama.com owner Robert Roche, an expatriate
President Barack Obama’s campaign accepted 16 times more in donations that listed invalid zip codes than Mitt Romney’s campaign, a report by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) found, further exposing the Obama campaign’s lax online security measures that make the
A British national who donated $10 to the Obama campaign, despite laws prohibiting the acceptance of foreign contributions, told Breitbart News he is now receiving e-mails from the Obama campaign thanking him for signing up for “get out the vote”
CBS News’s Bob Schieffer, who will moderate Monday’s foreign policy debate, announced last week that China will be one of topics he will have President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney address. China is a particularly timely topic, given that a
In September, the Obama campaign collected $2,199,204.38 in donations with non-existent or invalid ZIP codes. The Romney campaign’s September total: just $29,620. The revelation comes from a Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report to be issued tomorrow that combed the Federal
A global survey released on Thursday found that President Barack Obama would beat Mitt Romney in a landslide, 65%-18%, if the international community could vote in U.S. presidential elections. This poll not only validates Obama’s popularity abroad. It also raises
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Thursday sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting a Department of Justice investigation of the Obama campaign’s “pattern of potential misconduct” in illegally soliciting foreign donations. The Government Accountability Institute conducted a
The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) on Wednesday called out the Obama campaign for refusing to address the ownership of the Obama.com domain by a campaign bundler who lives and has business interests in China. GAI also alleged that the Obama
On Monday, after the Obama administration had allegedly tried to block the report from being published, Newsweek published a story by Peter Boyer and Peter Schweizer about loopholes in the nation’s campaign finance laws that enable illicit foreign and fraudulent
With a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report highlighting the threat of foreign online campaign donations making a buzz throughout the Beltway, Breitbart News has discovered blog entries on President Obama’s official website that highlight the pervasiveness of the problem.
From Tony Lee, Breitbart News: The Internet and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have democratized elections, made the world more interconnected, and allowed the velocity of information to be faster than ever before. But an extensive eight-month investigation
Minutes after Newsweek published a story on the threat of illegal foreign and fraudulent online campaign donations late Monday afternoon, the Obama campaign struck back hard with a response smearing one of the article’s authors and offered an anemic defense
Just hours after the release of the Government Accountability Institute’s blockbuster 108-page exposé on the threat of illegal foreign online campaign donations, GAI says the tip box on its new website, www.CampaignFundingRisks.com, has been flooded with new research leads and
President Barack Obama has become a global brand and his campaign has even sued local vendors for infringing upon the campaign’s trademarks, but a Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report released on Monday revealed Obama’s campaign does not own the mysterious site Obama.com, which
Foreigners have long tried to influence America’s elections though illicit campaign contributions, and a new report by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) found foreigners no longer need middlemen to circumvent America’s campaign finance laws. Instead, they can undermine America’s sovereignty
The Chinese government has been active in trying to influence U.S. elections and officials for decades, and a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) study found possible ties between those connected to Chinese business interests and a mysterious website unaffiliated with
The Obama campaign released news on Saturday morning of a holiday weekend, that it had raised a massive $181 million in September. It’s a staggering sum heading into the final month of campaigning. It almost equals his fundraising for July
