Requests For Investigation

DoD IG LETTER TO CREW CONFIRMS INVESTIGATION INTO SUBSTANDARD HELMET CONTRACTS

16 May 2008 // Washington, DC – Earlier this year, in light of evidence that Sioux Manufacturing, a company that makes Kevlar helmets, has been outfitting our nation's troops with substandard Kevlar helmets, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Defense asking for all records related to Sioux Manufacturing. More»

CREW CALLS ON FBI TO INVESTIGATE WHITE HOUSE DESTRUCTION OF E-MAILS -- INCLUDING PLAME WILSON DISCUSSIONS

12 Mar 2008 // Washington, DC – Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) called on FBI Director Robert S. Mueller to open an investigation into whether White House officials obstructed justice by destroying documents relevant to the criminal investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity. More»

Helmet

SIOUX MANUFACTURING RESPONDS TO CREW LETTER TO ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEES ON DOD CONTRACT FOR SUBSTANDARD HELMETS

13 Feb 2008 // Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) received correspondence from Sioux Manufacturing regarding the letters CREW sent to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees earlier this month on a lucrative government contract awarded to the company for production of substandard Kevlar helmets. CREW’s letters requested an investigation into a Department of Defense $74 million contract awarded to Sioux Manufacturing. More»

Stephen Moses

CREW EXPOSES LONG-TERM CARE INDUSTRY SHILL STEPHEN MOSES ON NATIONAL "CONSCIOUSNESS TOUR" IN SOUTH CAROLINA

12 Feb 2008 // Tomorrow, Wed., February 13 – Moses to Participate in “Day on the Hill” with Health Underwriters –
Aims to Increase Subscribers for Long-Term Care Insurance by Limiting Those on Medicaid Rolls

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Helmet

CREW DEMANDS INVESTIGATION INTO $74 MILLION CONTRACT TO COMPANY PRODUCING SUBSTANDARD MILITARY HELMETS

6 Feb 2008 // Today, in light of evidence that a company has been outfitting our nation's troops with substandard Kevlar helmets, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees requesting an investigation into a Department of Defense $74 million contract awarded to Sioux Manufacturing.

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AG Mukasey

CREW ASKS AG MUKASEY TO APPOINT SPECIAL COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE DISAPPEARANCE OF MILLIONS OF WHITE HOUSE EMAILS

4 Feb 2008 // Washington, DC - Today, in light of the emerging details of the disappearance of millions of White House emails, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey asking that he appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter. More»

CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS CALL ON MUKASEY TO RESCIND BUSH MEMO AUTHORIZING POLITICIZATION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

29 Jan 2008 // Bush Legacy of Politicizing Civil Rights Continues: Civil Rights Commission is Stacked with Partisans

Washington, DC – This morning, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) hosted a press conference call with the NAACP and MALDEF to demand that U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey rescind a Bush legal memo that authorized deceptive appointments of exclusively partisan Republicans to the bipartisan Civil Rights Commission.

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CBS NEWS: READING BETWEEN THE LINES

28 Jan 2008 //

Hundreds of programs claim to help kids read, and dozens of companies make money selling them.

This controversy is over how one of them got special favor and millions of your tax dollars from Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. More»

Ralph Reed

CREW AND MEDIA MATTERS ASK CNN TO EXCLUDE RALPH REED FROM "THE BEST POLITICAL TEAM ON TELEVISION"

16 Jan 2008 // Washington, DC – Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and Media Matters for America sent a letter to CNN’s U.S. President Jonathan Klein, asking that former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, a proven liar with a deep bias against one of the major Republican candidates, no longer be afforded the opportunity to be a part of CNN’s self-proclaimed “best political team on television.” Most recently, Reed provided commentary as a “Republican strategist” during the New Hampshire presidential primary. More»

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