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Peter Schweizer, the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), said the mainstream media are a part of the permanent political class “ecosystem,” and that is why they ignore the rampant crony capitalism in Washington, D.C.  Schweizer appeared on Boomtown,” a one-hour investigative

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.

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

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

President Barack Obama’s campaign officials may have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act, which makes it illegal to knowingly solicit donations from foreigners by aggressively sending fundraising e-mails to foreign nationals. The solicitations direct to the campaign’s official donation page

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 by the Government Accountability Institute

In an explosive report set to send shockwaves through official Washington, the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) released a 108-page GAI investigation into the threat of foreign and fraudulent Internet campaign donations in U.S. federal elections (visit campaignfundingrisks.com to download the

A new report by the Government Accountability Institute finds that JP Morgan has made at least $560,492,596 since 2004 processing the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards of 18 of the 24 states it has under contract for the food stamp

Progressive outlets like The Washington Post and ThinkProgress are still trying to discredit a factual Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report that found President Barack Obama had missed nearly half of his daily intelligence briefings, instead opting to read those reports on

Two weeks ago, Peter Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute reported that President Obama was ditching over half of his intelligence briefings. According to their study, drawn from Obama’s own White House calendar, “During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended

A simple three-page report by the Government Accountability Institute tallying up the number of days President Barack Obama has attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) on intelligence has ignited a firestorm of controversy that places the attacks on the U.S.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney calls a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report finding that President Obama has missed over half of his daily intelligence briefings “hilarious.”  “It’s revealing that Mr. Carney did not dispute the Government Accountability Institute’s