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Will new Facebook scandal finally force tech CEOs to testify on ‘information warfare’? Roger McNamee, Norman Eisen and Fred Wertheimer | March 19, 2018 | First published in USA Today These CEOS and their companies are contributing to a national crisis. We need to find out what they know and how they’re going to make […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 15, 2018 “Why in the world would any world leader trust Trump or treat anything Trump says as credible?” President Trump had made 2,436 false or misleading claims in office as of March 2, according to The Fact Checker at The Washington Post. Last night, however, Trump did something […]
Six ways Trump can help stop Russian meddling CNN OPINION | Fred Wertheimer and Norman Eisen | March 14, 2018 The controversial draft report from the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee, revealed this week, purports to conclude that Russia did not undertake active measures to help President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 8, 2018 “If Members who supported the tax bill were really interested in balancing the budget, they never would have voted to unbalance the budget by $1.5 trillion.” The national news these days is dominated by Trump stories – the Russia Probe, Trump and his Administration’s ethics abuses, stories […]
The below piece is titled “Ethics Experts: The Problem With Jared Kushner In The White House,” by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer, Norman Eisen, former chief White House ethics counsel to President Obama, and Virginia Canter, executive branch ethics counsel for CREW. The piece was published here in CNN Opinion on March 7, 2018. ————- […]
Enclosed for your information is an opinion piece entitled, “What Facebook, Google and Twitter Owe America,” by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer and Norman Eisen, former chief ethics counsel to President Obama. The piece was published in Politico on February 28, 2018. Find the full piece here or below. What Facebook, Google and Twitter Owe […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 1, 2018 “With extensive business holdings that he refused to divest, and with his obvious nepotism problems, Jared Kushner never should have been given a senior White House position in the first place.” It is time for White House advisor Jared Kushner to go. On April 26, 2017, Democracy […]
This piece was first published here in The Hill on February 14, 2018. ————————- Chairman Nunes, answer the question Fred Wertheimer | 02/14/18 In recent weeks House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has been asked a simple question by a member of the Intelligence Committee and by the media: Did members of his staff work […]
Enclosed for your information is an opinion piece entitled “Trump, Ryan and McConnell, stop ignoring your oaths,” by Fred Wertheimer, Democracy 21 President, and Norman Eisen, President Obama’s “Ethics Czar” from 2009-2011. This piece was published on CNN Opinion on February 22, 2018. According to the piece: It’s long past time for Trump, Ryan and […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | FEBRUARY 22, 2018 “By spelling out in stunning detail how the Russians carried out their attacks on our elections, the Mueller indictment has opened the door to our government responding.” The indictment brought last week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against Russian individuals and entities for intervening in the 2016 […]
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