Center for Public Integrity

67 of those defendants had been sentenced to death.

In 2003, the Center for Public Integrity reviewed more than 11,000 cases in which appellate courts have cited prosecutorial misconduct since 1970.

In roughly 2,000 of them, convictions were reversed.

Charges dismissed or sentences reduced.

Yeah.

I was at a little nonprofit newsroom for a long time called the Center for Public Integrity.

It has since died, RIP.

But we were doing really cool projects looking at state politics and ballot measures and money in politics and kind of all the lobbying that goes on at the state level, which, you know, newsrooms have shed their statehouse reporters, so they don't have time to look at all this stuff from a 50-state perspective.

Commerce had good reason to destroy documents.

Back in nineteen ninety-six, even the preliminary memos that Judicial Watch had uncovered were judged by Charles Lewis of the liberal Center for Public Integrity to support the notion that favorable treatment was given to friends of Ron Brown, Bill Clinton, and the Democratic Party.

Seemingly everywhere Judicial Watch looked, there lurked some piece of Commerce dirty laundry.

Judge Lamber notes, "Oh, and as to the all-purpose dismissal of Judicial Watch's lawyer, Larry Klayman, as a pest," the judge laconically observed, "The DOC appears to have demonstrated a disregard for the law that cannot be explained even by the idiosyncrasies of Judicial Watch's counsel." The stench from Commerce's soiled laundry eventually became so great that the Clinton administration capitulated in August nineteen ninety-seven and asked for judgment against itself, offering to pay two million dollars in legal fees to Judicial Watch and to initiate a new document search.

He's also a major contributor to the Michael J.

Fox Foundation and the Center for Public Integrity, which is an investigative journalism foundation.

He's all over the place.

But He's not an owner of the Mets.

But Dave has focused on money, politics, infid- investigation, special projects.

He was the former editor-in-chief of Raw Story, deputy editor of Business Insider, also worked at the Center for Public Integrity, Politico, Open Secrets, Dallas Morning News.

I could go on and on and on.

But Dave, I wanted to, to grab you and congratulate you because what you used to be a senior editor at was something called Notice.

You know, people presumably just like us, right, were killed related to, uh, related to lies.

One study, uh, by the Center for Public Integrity said that the Bush administration officials, including the president and vice president, made at least 935 false statements, uh, in the two years leading up to the war.

You know, or I, I also think of, uh, the phrase the big lie, uh, which was a phrase that you find in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, right? And Hitler, you know, told, you know, all sorts of lies which led to, uh, power, you know, uh, consolidating power.

I think people know most of these probably.