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LETTERS.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(Letter to the Editor)
Upwind From Pew
Wednesday's editorial "Downwind From Pew" is so riddled with factual errors that it is probably petty on our part to object to your characterization of us as "the perhaps misnamed Center for Public Integrity."
I don't think anyone (other than you) has alleged that the Carnegie Corp., the Ford Foundation, Open Society, etc., gave money to Pew to give to other groups in a money-laundering scheme. I think the complaint is that Pew et al., by funding groups like the Center for Public Integrity, somehow "lobbied" for McCain-Feingold.
The center, of course, doesn't lobby. Rather, we put up databases on things like 527s, or write stories about 527 groups like America Coming Together running GOTV efforts in Ohio long before others noticed it. We always disclose the foundations that support projects (Pew was no exception). But to get back to the main point -- Carnegie, Ford et al gave us grants directly, openly, out in public, to do our money-in-politics research. It doesn't make any sense that they would launder their money through Pew. I don't think the Treglia tape, the flawed and completely debunked PoliticalMoneyLine report or the Ryan Sager column you mention alleges this.
The center has a 15-year track record that includes exposes of the Clinton Lincoln Bedroom scandal, publishing the text of the Bush administration's secret "Patriot Act II" and revealing the top donors to 527 Committees. We provide the public with factual information. How this makes us "perhaps misnamed" is beyond us.
Bill Allison, managing editor, Center for Public Integrity
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