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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px;">The Center for Government Integrity (CGI), affiliated with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_United" title="Citizens United" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Citizens United</a>, states that it "conducts research, analyzes issues and provides information to the public on an array of issues relating to ethics in government. CGI and its founder, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_N.Bossie" title="David N. Bossie" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David N. Bossie</a>, were instrumental in exposing corruption in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clinton_administration" title="Clinton administration" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clinton administration</a> and the project continues to work to expose and root-out <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corruption" title="Corruption" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">corruption</a> and abuses of power at all levels of government," the Citizens United website states.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#Solicitations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Solicitations</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#Mailing_lists" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Mailing lists</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#Contact_information" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Contact information</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#Resources_and_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Resources and articles</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2 External articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Solicitations</h2><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Response_Dynamics_Inc." title="Response Dynamics Inc." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Response Dynamics </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Response_Dynamics_Inc." title="Response Dynamics Inc." style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Inc.</a> is under contract with the Center for Government Integrity and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Sovereignty_Action_Projects&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Sovereignty Action Projects (page does not exist)" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">American Sovereignty Action Projects</a> through August 27, 2008.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Mailing lists</h2>The mailing list for CGI was sold to "CHRISTIAN PAC DONORS AND ACTIVISTS" by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Response_Unlimited" title="Response Unlimited" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Response Unlimited</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Contact information</h2>1006 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
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<h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Resources and articles</h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6;">References</h3><ol class="references" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citizensunited.org/citizens_united.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Citizens United</a> website.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://146.63.113.142/pdf/consumer/2006-2007-paid-sol-reg.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url(" http="http" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat">List of Paid Solicitors for Charitable Organizations</a>, September 1, 2006 through September 1, 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.responseunlimited.com/action.lasso?-response=usage.lasso&list=69&skip=50" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Usage for CHRISTIAN PAC DONORS AND ACTIVISTS,"</a> Response Unlimited, 2000-2004.</li></ol><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6;">External articles</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/gaocheney120902opn.pdf" style="background: url(""); text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px;" http="http" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat">David M. Walker, Comptroller of the United States, Plaintiff v. Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States and Chair, National Energy Policy Development Group</a>, Civil Action No. 02-0340 (JDB), United States District Court for the District of Columbia, December 9, 2002; posted online by FindLaw: "The Court has received amicus curiae briefs from the Center for Government Integrity, on behalf of defendant, and from Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Harry Reid</a> of Nevada, on behalf of plaintiff." re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cheney_Energy_Task_Force" title="Cheney Energy Task Force" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Cheney Energy Task Force</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/news/ledger/stories/0407umdnj.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Legislator drawn into the scandal at UMDNJ. U.S. Attorney looks at Sen. Bryant's job,"</a> he Star-Ledger(N.J.), April 7, 2006.</li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Category</a>: <ul style="list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Politics(U.S.)" title="Category:Politics (U.S.)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Politics (U.S.)</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div>==</div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</h2><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anti-U.N. activities</h2>On January 6, 1997, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="National Center for Public Policy Research" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a> reported<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Sovereignty_Action_Project#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">[8]</a> that Cliff Kincaid of the American Sovereignty Action Project "delivered a presentation opposing a U.S. bailout of the United Nations and challenging the allegation that the U.S. owes the UN $1.5 billion. ... Kincaid also reported on efforts by the U.N. and some officials within the Clinton Administration to promote a global tax to benefit the U.N., discussed a new 300-page book written by proponents promoting the global tax, a Senate 70-28 vote last year to cut off all funding to the U.N. if it tries to impose a global tax, and a November 1996 GOA report on the global tax."On March 13, 1997, the National Center for Public Policy Research reported<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Sovereignty_Action_Project#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">[9]</a> that <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Sheehan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Sheehan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">James Sheehan</a> of the Competitive Enterprise Institute "discussed CEI's participation in a March 3 press conference with the American Sovereignty Action Project and Americans for Tax Reform, among others, to discuss Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roscoe_Bartlett" title="Roscoe Bartlett" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Roscoe Bartlett</a>'s new United Nations Erroneous Debt Act[, which] has over 45 original co-sponsors, would prohibit any payment to the United Nations of any contribution until U.S. overpayments to the UN are either reimbursed or properly credited as U.S. contributions."In March 1998, the National Center for Public Policy Research reported<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Sovereignty_Action_Project#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">[10]</a> that Cliff Kincaid of the American Sovereignty Action Project of Citizens United "discussed the United Nations' request for more funds from the U.S. The U.N., he said, has failed to reimburse $6-8 billion in U.S. peacekeeping expenses incurred by the U.N. Said Kincaid: 'The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clinton_Administration" title="Clinton Administration" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Clinton Administration</a> looted from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pentagon" title="Pentagon" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Pentagon</a> military readiness accounts." Additionally, Kincaid said, Speaker of the House <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Newt Gingrich</a> "has endorsed repaying the phony $1 billion repayment" to the United Nations but, "[f]ortunately, leading <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Republicans</a>", including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dick_Armey" title="Dick Armey" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Dick Armey</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Tom DeLay</a>, disagreed with Gingrich.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Donors</h2>The "active donors" to ASP are "committed to restoring and defending America's sovereignty before any further power can be usurped by the corrupt and anti-American UN. In addition to the ultimate goal of terminating American membership in this body, ASP is working to cut off funding to the UN, remove UN facilities from American soil, keep the United States free from the UN's 'International Criminal Court,' and prevent the conscription of U.S. soldiers into the UN's armies."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Sovereignty_Action_Project#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">[11]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Solicitations</h2><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Response_Dynamics_Inc." title="Response Dynamics Inc." style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Response Dynamics Inc.</a> is under contract with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Government_Integrity" title="Center for Government Integrity" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Center for Government Integrity</a> (CGI) and American Sovereignty Action Projects through August 27, 2008.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Sovereignty_Action_Project#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">[12]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mailing lists</h2>The American Sovereignty Project Mailing List is listed for sale by NextMark.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Sovereignty_Action_Project#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">[13]</a>Campaign donors for 2000 presidential hopeful <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Steve_Forbes" title="Steve Forbes" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Steve Forbes</a> listed by the Eagle List Company included Citizens United and the American Sovereignty Project.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Sovereignty_Action_Project#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">[14]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federalist_Society" title="Federalist Society" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Federalist Society</a></h2>Federalist Society member <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brian_Hook&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brian Hook (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Brian Hook</a>, Special Assistant to the President, is Advisor for International Law and American Sovereignty Project.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Sovereignty_Action_Project#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">[15]</a> The reference to the American Sovereignty Project may or may not be the same as that affiliated with Citizens United. No further information is provided.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Contact information</h2>