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Andrew Kreig is executive director of the Justice Integrity Project, a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization focused on reforming abusive federal investigative procedures.
He is an attorney, non-profit executive and investigative journalist.
As President and CEO of the Wireless Communications Association International from 1996 until 2008, Kreig led its evolution into the premier worldwide advocate for high-capacity wireless services. Previously, he authored some two thousand bylined news and magazine articles, plus the pioneering 1987 book "Spiked: How Chain Management Corrupted America's Oldest Newspaper." The book documented unethical practices within the news media, including misleading applications by prominent news industry executives to win coveted Pulitzer Prizes.
Listed in numerous Who's Who volumes for more than a dozen years, he has lectured on five continents about communications issues and has been active in civic affairs in Washington. He holds degrees from Yale Law School and University of Chicago School of Law. His previous employers include the Hartford Courant, Connecticut General Assembly Speaker Irving Stolberg, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf in Boston and the global law firm Latham & Watkins.
Saturday, January 28, 2012 Setting the Stage for a Jeb Bush Draft in Tampa (5 comments)
To the rescue of Republicans last week came former Alabama Congressman Artur Davis, a four-term Democrat who urges Republicans to nominate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Sunday, January 1, 2012 Chief Justice's Annual Report Ducks Judicial Ethics Scandals (9 comments)
The federal courts function honestly, according to the annual report on the federal judiciary that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued Dec. 31 in the middle of the New Year's holiday weekend.
Thursday, December 8, 2011 Helen Thomas Denounces DC Greed, Fear, War-Mongers (5 comments)
Pioneering White House correspondent Helen Thomas told a National Press Club audience Dec. 7 that the country is endangered by what she called pervasive government leader greed, fear of losing their jobs, and subservience to war-mongers.
Monday, November 14, 2011 Herman Cain, Front-Man for Billionaires (2 comments)
GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain serves as front man for the billionaire Koch brothers in a way rarely, if ever, seen in modern times for a prominent U.S. major party candidate. The relationship of Cain's campaign and his Koch backers should be this month's biggest campaign story.
Monday, November 7, 2011 Cain's 'high-tech lynching' defense problem...Clarence Thomas lied (11 comments)
GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain describes himself as a victim of a "high-tech lynching" -- not a playboy chasing the women on his staff, as four have claimed, most recently on Nov. 7.
But Cain has a larger problem, aside from Sharon Bialek, a fourth accuser who surfaced today: Clarence Thomas perjured himself when he used the slogan to defend himself in his 1991 Senate testimony
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Siegelman Showdown Nov. 2 Now Hurts Obama, Not Rove (2 comments)
A legal showdown of historic proportion unfolded Nov. 2 in an Alabama federal court. Squared off in Montgomery were the Obama Justice Department and its most important domestic defendant, former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, once the leading Democrat in his state.
Saturday, October 29, 2011 Justice Breyer Reviews Court History, Skimps On Thomas Dispute
The Supreme Court preserves democracy by earning public confidence, as Justice Stephen Breyer told a packed hall last week in Washington, DC. But his lecture and book, "Making Our Democracy Work," glossed over such controversies as the "Virginia and Clarence Thomas Bought by Billionaires" ad released this week.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Thomas Must Resign, Says Former Judge, Lover (9 comments)
Author and former Senate Judiciary Committee counsel Lillian McEwen, whose memoir this year describes a five-year romantic relationship in the 1980s with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, delivers a lecture Oct. 26 calling for his resignation on grounds of corruption that is dangerous to the public.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 GOP 2012 Contender Roemer Decries Free Trade, DC Political Corruption
Republican 2012 Presidential candidate Buddy Roemer ramped up his reform message Oct. 13 with the kind of protectionist and anti-Wall Street language not usually heard from his party peers, much less bankers.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Reform Teams Should Fight for the Dream, But Do It Better (2 comments)
Reformers require new approaches to fight due process violations and other wrongdoing that appears to extend high into the legal system.
These general principles coalesce in the person of Clarence Thomas -- associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and someone whom the FBI should vigorously investigate.
Friday, September 30, 2011 20 Dem Reps Call for DOJ Probe To Investigate Clarence Thomas (7 comments)
Twenty Democratic members of Congress wrote federal judicial authorities on Sept. 29 to request a formal Justice Department probe of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas for failure to disclose junkets, other gifts and income.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Troy Davis, Clarence Thomas -- and Georgia on Our Minds (6 comments)
Georgia's shameful execution of Troy Davis on Sept. 21 prompts me to share the research tools below. For perspective, I researched a Georgia case involving Jerry Lee Banks, a young black man sentenced to death for a white couple's murder in 1974 after he could afford to pay his defense lawyer only $10 and a kettle of fish and collard greens.
Saturday, September 24, 2011 Siegelman's Re-Sentence Delayed As DOJ Hides Data (20 comments)
The Alabama judge presiding over the notorious Bush prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman postponed the defendant's re-sentencing last week while prosecutors continue to stonewall defense requests for documents showing whether federal prosecutors violated the defendant's right to an honest, unbiased prosecutor.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 Clarence Thomas' Lover Reflects On DC Life, Love, Law (7 comments)
The featured guest today, Sept. 22, on MTL Washington Update radio show is author and retired federal judge Lillian McEwen.She is a rare if not unique position to make news,including big trouble for Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, her former lover.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Obama Team Feared Coup If He Prosecuted War Crimes (116 comments)
President-Elect Obama's advisers feared in 2008 that authorities would oust him in a coup and that Republicans would block his policy agenda if he prosecuted Bush-era war crimes, according to a law school dean who served as one of Obama's top transition advisers.
Monday, August 22, 2011 Feeling Friendly This Week? Beware (8 comments)
New evidence emerged in Washington last week of sophisticated phishing and surveillance plots. The snitch scams were reportedly run by government-affiliated IT contractors targeting those who published WikiLeaks documents or similarly embarrassed federal officials or key members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 U.S. Needs Fearless, Fighting MSM Reporters (1 comments)
The recent passing of longtime Hartford Courant reporter William Cockerham,one of the paper's most fearless and memorable reporters for nearly a quarter of a century, raises the question of what readers want in a news organization.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Florida Judge Continues Whitewash of Siegelman Frame-up (3 comments)
A Florida federal judge has ruled that former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and his co-defendant have been treated so fairly that no one can reasonably suspect the appearance of bias. The decision continued the whitewash of the nation's most notorious political prosecution of the decade.
Saturday, May 21, 2011 June Trial Looms As Obama DOJ Crusades Against Critics (23 comments)
The Obama administration's shocking crackdown on government whistleblowers became more prominent this week with the New Yorker's publication of a hard-hitting article about the plight and June trial of former NSA officer Thomas Drake.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Judges Who Refuse to Recuse Taint Our Justice System (21 comments)
Three recent state, federal and Supreme Court controversies show how the public is thwarted from the right of due process when judges with apparent conflicts refuse to recuse themselves.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Court Slaps Feds Again For Christie-Era NJ Prosecutions (2 comments)
In a major setback for the U.S. Justice Department and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a federal appeals court last week dismissed federal bribery and conspiracy charges against two New Jersey Democrats targeted in a trap set by Christie. The decision helps illustrate why the 46-defendant "Bid Rig III" case is one of the nation's most scandalous political prosecutions of recent years.
Monday, January 24, 2011 Olbermann's Ouster: 'In the Barracuda Tank...' (1 comments)
What really caused Keith Olbermann's stunning announcement Friday evening that the show would be his last on MSNBC? "Olbermann was the most controversial, outspoken on-air personality," says one network TV expert. "In the barracuda tank, no one needs to read a memo to know what to do."
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Partner at Firm Counseling Assange's Accusers Helped the CIA In Rendition for Torture (1 comments)
Spy thriller author Thomas Bodström, an attorney whose firm represents the two Swedish women making the sex charges against WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange, knows better than most people that truth is stranger than fiction. As Sweden's Minister of Justice, Bodström helped his nation in 2001 secretly turn over to the Central Intelligence Agency two asylum-seekers suspected by the CIA of terror and then tortured by Egypt
Monday, January 10, 2011 Whistleblower Says: Obama's DoJ Declares War on Whistleblowers (6 comments)
Dana Jill Simpson, the Alabama attorney who stepped forward in 2007 to provide sworn evidence on how her fellow Republicans were framing Democratic former Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges, today released a statement exclusive to OpEd News saying that President Obama's Department of Justice has declared a "war on whistleblowers."
Sunday, December 19, 2010 Rove Suspected In Swedish-U.S. Political Prosecution of WikiLeaks (8 comments)
Karl Rove's help for Sweden as it assists the Obama administration's prosecution against WikiLeaks could be the latest example of the adage, "Politics makes strange bedfellows."
These days, Sweden and the United States are apparently undertaking a political prosecution as audacious and important as those by the notorious "loyal Bushies" earlier this decade against U.S. Democrats.
Friday, December 3, 2010 Christie's Corruption Case Shows Horrid Legacy of 'Loyal Bushies,' Cover-ups (4 comments)
The Justice Department this week resumed its massive New Jersey political corruption "Bid Rig III" case with a trial that continues the self-inflicted damage from its 2006 political purge of U.S. attorneys.
The bribery trial continues the DOJ's disgraceful 46-defendant sting that Now-Gov. Chris Christie concocted after the infamous 2006 political purge of prosecutors.
Saturday, November 27, 2010 Thanksgiving Reflections on Political Prisoners Kerik, Siegelman, Scrushy (6 comments)
This Thanksgiving weekend is an apt time for those of us enjoying family and freedom to reflect about those being prosecuted in the United States primarily for political purposes.
Let's examine the Justice Department's crusades against former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, a Republican, and former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, his state's leading Democrat.
Friday, November 19, 2010 Terror, TSA and Our Rights as Sheeple (20 comments)
With luck, this week's protests will force our government to limit airport porno scans and genital-area pat-downs to those seriously suspected of being dangerous. Similarly, a Manhattan jury's acquittal Nov. 17 of a terrorism suspect from all but one of 285 federal charges shows progress in the "war on terror," not a setback.
Thursday, November 11, 2010 Justice Probe of CIA Torture Evidence: Another Whitewash (3 comments)
Here's why the Justice Department's halt to its probe of CIA obstruction of justice involving torture looks like another whitewash. The DOJ compromised its probe from the beginning in 2008 by assigning it to Connecticut federal prosecutor John Durham, whom courts have twice implicated in suppressing evidence.
Saturday, October 9, 2010 Peak Oil Warning Gains DC Traction (3 comments)
Peak Oil Warning Gains DC Traction. The first Washington convention focused on Peak Oil began this week with a press briefing citing evidence this is the worst year for the environment in recorded history.
"I would submit," said Peak Oil leader Jim Baldauf, "that all of these tragedies are due to Peak Oil. Peak Oil will affect every aspect of our lives."
Friday, October 1, 2010 Kerik Appeal Documents Injustice By Judge at Sentencing (1 comments)
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik argued this week that a federal appeals court should vacate his four-year prison sentence because of serious errors and bias by his trial judge. The three major arguments in Kerik's brief filed Sept. 28 attacked U.S. District Judge Stephen C. Robinson, who put Kerik in solitary confinement pre-trial for until he agreed to plead guilty to corruption charges last November.
Monday, September 27, 2010 Famed Physician Dr. Cyril Wecht: Fight Justice Department Misconduct (7 comments)
Forensic medical expert Cyril H. Wecht provides a vitally needed defendant's perspective on the terrible Justice Department misconduct that USA Today just documented in a major investigative project.
"Once a victim has been targeted," he wrote back, "there are no limits to the amount of time, energy, money, and use of personnel that the Feds will employ to pursue and persecute that individual."
Thursday, September 9, 2010 Obama, Press Ignore GOPer Use of DOJ to Cheat Voters, Taxpayers
Far from limiting government as touted, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie used his previous post as his state's U.S. attorney to waste taxpayer funds to help himself and his cronies and crush political opponents. As elections loom this fall, learn of this "loyal Bushie" scheme for the DOJ to connive with Solomon Dwek, a big-time bank swindler and brothel operator. Why does the Obama DOJ keep whitewashing these scandals?
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Victims Of $3.6 Billion Petters Ponzi Fraud Protest Court Process (4 comments)
Victims of the $3.6 billion financial fraud by Minnesota businessman Tom Petters are justifiably angry about the federal victim-restitution process that began after his 2008 arrest.
The feds used hardball tactics to install well-connected cronies in key positions, which should trouble anyone who fears precedent if their own finances get trapped in such a dispute nationally.
Friday, August 6, 2010 What's Next After Kagan's Confirmation? (3 comments)
With the Kagan appointment, we're now seeing the ascendancy of a well-credentialed careerist to a lifetime job where it seems likely she'll help further shift constitutional power toward an unaccountable Executive Branch vastly different than one the Framers envisioned. Kagan suggests she's comfortable with these dangerous long-term trends.
Monday, July 26, 2010 Case Closed on the U.S. Attorney Firings? DOJ's Political 'Purge' and Torture Probers Suppressed Evidence In Crime Case (9 comments)
Four days before Connecticut's Nora Dannehy was appointed to investigate the Bush U.S. attorney firing scandal, her team of lawyers was found to have illegally suppressed evidence in a major political corruption case. Today we reveal that this previously unreported fact calls into question her entire national investigation. The revelations also compromise DOJ's internal probe by prosecutor John Durham into torture claims.
Monday, July 19, 2010 Jersey Democrat, JIP Urge "No' On Kagan, Citing Rights Concerns
The Senate should reject Democrat Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination based on her shabby civil rights record that's apparent from her Department of Justice work, according to a Democratic former New Jersey legislator and Jersey City mayoral candidate.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Feds Bully 'Die Hard' Moviemaker McTiernan Into Plea for False Statements
A noted Hollywood filmmaker faces prison after a conditional guilty plea July 12 in a wiretapping case so interesting that it deserves two alternative news accounts.
Here's a version that Reuters provided to news organizations serving a vast majority of Americans:
"Die Hard" film director John McTiernan pleaded guilty to lying to law enforcement officials in connection with the racketeering case of a private detective.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Justice Project Urges 'No' Vote On Kagan
The Senate should reject Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination because she seeks to expand executive branch authority at the expense of the public's historic civil rights. She is part of an Obama Department of Justice leadership team that has failed to redress unconstitutional lawbreaking by overzealous prosecutors and greedy judges.
Monday, June 7, 2010 Obama Should Learn From the Artur Davis Debacle In Alabama (2 comments)
Little-known Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks ran to the left of the better-funded Artur Davis and trounced him by a 62-38 margin even though the favored Davis is his state's senior Democratic congressman.
The Davis defeat is big news. In a red state, Sparks ran an issue-oriented campaign that offered solutions to voters' hopes and fears.
Sunday, May 30, 2010 A Few Tough Questions for Karl Rove on his Book Tour (3 comments)
Bush's brain shouldn't mind answering a few questions as he goes around the South and Midwest selling his book. Just might enliven the events, and end up selling more copies. So here are a few.
Monday, April 26, 2010 Rove's Top 2 Alabama Targets Dare Challenge His "Courage'
As Karl Rove travels to Alabama this week to hawk his memoir Courage and Consequence, his two most prominent Alabama targets are calling him a charlatan -"- and urging authorities to stop ignoring his role changing the nation's political map by bogus federal criminal prosecutions against Democrats.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Siegelman Judge Asked To Recuse Now, With Kagan, Rove Opposing Oversight (3 comments)
Imprisoned businessman Richard Scrushy, a defendant in the most controversial federal prosecution of the decade, last week repeated his call for the presiding judge to remove himself -"- even as the disputes widened to include reported Supreme Court contender Elena Kagan, up to $50 billion in scandal-ridden Air Force contracts, and Karl Rove's best-selling new memoir.
Saturday, April 3, 2010 Nations Struggle Over Scandal-Marked Air Force Tanker Deal
To kowtow to Europe's EADS and their mostly Republican U.S. allies for the wrong reasons would only hurt the U.S. economy and encourage scandalous conduct that's been occurring on both sides of the nearly decade-long EADS rivalry with Boeing over tanker contracts.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Progressive Health Care Leaders Sign Off On White House Insurance Plan
2004 Presidential candidate Howard Dean described to an oft-skeptical progressive audience Wednesday why he encourages House approval of a White House plan to extend health insurance coverage with mandatory policies
Thursday, November 5, 2009 Fans of House Health Option Cite Rights, Hopes, But Risk Big Defeat
Defying Washington's conventional wisdom on health care reform, two senior Democratic House members are preparing a grassroots campaign to sustain a vigorous public option following a vote scheduled Saturday.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Will An Oct. 27 Hearing Make History For Your Health Rights?
To energize public support for robust health care reform, a civil rights icon and two House leaders are planning a hearing and rally Oct. 27 on Capitol Hill.
Their ambitious plan is to duplicate for health care the same kind of breakthrough legal reform achieved in civil rights by 1960s marches.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Why Did Feds Persecute Celebrity Expert Cyril Wecht? Who's Next? (6 comments)
Like many government employees, Allegheny County Coroner and famed TV analyst Dr. Cyril Wecht of Pittsburgh sometimes sent faxes from his office on personal matters. In 2006, the Justice Department used his faxes for 27 felony charges, thereby forcing the Democrat's resignation after 20 years. Such cases are creating bipartisan alarm nationally among legal experts who believe that DoJ increasingly abuses its vast power
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Siegelman Blasts DoJ and Judge In ‘Final' Reply Seeking Hearing (3 comments)
Facing a sentence of 20 additional years in prison recommended by Bush Justice Department holdovers, former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman finally took off the gloves today against his prosecutors and the judge – and, for once, skipped any mention of Karl Rove.
Monday, September 21, 2009 Where's Congress? Justice Dept. Whistleblower Slams Siegelman Case In Exclusive OpEd News Interview
This exclusive OpEd News interview is with Tamarah Grimes, a Justice Department paralegal working on the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman before she reported in 2007 wrongdoing on the prosecution team and was fired in June after reiterating her reports to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder. OpEd News published the interviews in two parts Sept. 16 and 17, with both parts now combined for reference purposes.
Monday, September 14, 2009 DoJ Assault On Siegelman Threatens Civil Rights For Many (1 comments)
The Justice Department is arguing that no evidence exists for a hearing on new evidence pertaining to the 2006 conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. The government's effort is a bad-faith attempt to keep intact dubious prosecutions nationwide that curtailed public choices in elections.
Saturday, August 15, 2009 Forensic Expert Dr. Cyril Wecht Blasts Rove-Inspired DoJ Abuses (4 comments)
After Tuesday's revelations from Karl Rove's testimony about the mid-term firing of U.S. attorneys for political reasons, forensic expert Dr. Cyril Wecht gave a powerful, first-person account Aug. 13 of what it's like when one of the "loyal Bushie" U.S. attorneys targets a Democrat for absolute destruction.
Sunday, August 9, 2009 Gagged FBI Translator Claims Evidence of U.S. Reps Bribery (3 comments)
Seeking to overcome years of gag restraints, former FBI contract translator Sibel Edmonds reportedly claimed in an Aug. 8 deposition that several leaders in Congress and other high-level U.S. officials were suspected early this decade of being bribed by Turkey's government.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Did DoJ Blackmail Siegelman Witness With Sex Scandal? (2 comments)
The top government witness in the 2006 federal conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman is providing new evidence that prosecutors failed to give the defense required records documenting witness-coaching. Even more explosive is a claim by government witness Nick Bailey's current employer saying that prosecutors pressured Bailey to adjust his testimony under threat of exposing a romantic relationship with Siegelman.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Alabama Decisions Illustrate Abuse of Judicial Power (1 comments)
The plight of litigants who face a biased judge is illustrated by the track record of a prominent Alabama federal judge, as well by major recent decisions requiring new trials in West Virginia and Georgia courts.
The track record of Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller of Montgomery, Alabama shows that he continues to supervise cases compromised by his personal, financial or political interests.
