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Andrew Kreig
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Andrew Kreig is an investigative reporter, attorney, author, business strategist, radio host, and longtime non-profit executive based in Washington, DC.
His most recent book is "Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters," the first book about the Obama administration's second term. The book grew out of his work leading the Justice Integrity Project, a non-partisan legal reform group that investigates official misconduct.
In a diverse career, he has advocated for the powerful, and investigated Mafia chiefs, Karl Rove, and top Obama administration officials. The major "Who's Who" reference books have listed him since the mid-1990s.
He holds law degrees from Yale and the University of Chicago, and a b.a. in history from Cornell. His experience includes work as law clerk to a federal judge, as an attorney at a national law firm, and as president/CEO of a worldwide high-tech trade association.
The contact for interviews, lectures, and review copies is Mary Byers at Eagle View Books. The author has lectured on five continents, held research fellowships at three major universities, and appeared on more than 100 radio, television and cable news shows as an expert commentator.
(48 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 27, 2014 9/11 Commission's Forum Shows How DC 'Works'
Members of 9/11 Commission last week leveraged the 10th anniversary of their report to announce a dozen recommendations primarily fanning fears of foreign terrorism.
(11 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 11, 2014 Revelations Mark This Month's 50th JFK Warren Report Anniversary
Those appalled by the nation's drift away from the Constitution can benefit from a rare opportunity this month.
Sept. 26 marks the 50th anniversary of the Warren Commission's report on President John F. Kennedy's murder.
(20 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 24, 2011 Siegelman's Re-Sentence Delayed As DOJ Hides Data
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, February 9, 2015 Moralist Ken Starr Explains His Help For Billionaire Pervert Jeffrey Epstein
Famed educator and legal scholar Ken Starr led a forum last week at the National Press Club to inspire faith-based instruction -- and then was asked to describe why he had helped billionaire Jeffrey Epstein avoid serious prison time in 2008 on allegations Epstein had molested dozens of underage girls.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 8, 2011 Helen Thomas Denounces DC Greed, Fear, War-Mongers
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.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Troy Davis, Clarence Thomas -- and Georgia on Our Minds
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Partner at Firm Counseling Assange's Accusers Helped the CIA In Rendition for Torture
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
(116 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 29, 2014 Don't Be Fooled By 'Conspiracy Theory' Smears
Most of us still rely heavily on the mainstream media to complement our information from other sources, in this article Kreig urges readers to evaluate evidence with an open mind, and to regard with special suspicion those commentators who slant their coverage with the loaded smear words "conspiracy theory" without citing specific evidence.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Did DoJ Blackmail Siegelman Witness With Sex Scandal?
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.
(19 comments) SHARE Friday, March 27, 2020 WTC 7 Not Destroyed by Fire, Concludes Final University of Alaska Fairbanks Report
The destruction of the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 in New York City late in the afternoon of September 11, 2001, was not a result of fires, according to the much-anticipated final report issued on March 25 by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Siegelman Blasts DoJ and Judge In ‘Final' Reply Seeking Hearing
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.
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, October 25, 2013 Alabama Deputies Beat, Arrest Corruption-Fighting Reporter
The Shuler prosecution illustrates how one-party governance in the Deep South inspired by Karl Rove, the Tea Party, and long-lingering racial and other animosities against the federal government have fostered a new view of the law, or more precisely a return to old views.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 30, 2014 Shackled Siegelman Typifies White House 'Human Rights' Charade
Federal authorities continued this month their remarkably harsh, unjust treatment of the nation's most famous political prisoner, former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.
The U.S. legal jihad against Siegelman persists even as the Obama administration separately cites "human rights" as the rationale for U.S. foreign interventions.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Siegelman Judge Asked To Recuse Now, With Kagan, Rove Opposing Oversight
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.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, July 26, 2010 Case Closed on the U.S. Attorney Firings? DOJ's Political 'Purge' and Torture Probers Suppressed Evidence In Crime Case
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.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, October 20, 2014 Former House JFK Murder Prober Alleges CIA 'Lied,' Seeks Hidden Records
Did the CIA try to thwart the nation's last investigation of President Kennedy's assassination?
"The CIA not only lied, it actively subverted the investigation," says G. Robert Blakey, the former general counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), which issued its report in 1979.
(20 comments) SHARE Friday, November 19, 2010 Terror, TSA and Our Rights as Sheeple
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.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 9, 2010 Peak Oil Warning Gains DC Traction
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."