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Alexander Cohen

Data Reporter  The Center for Public Integrity
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Alexander Cohen rejoined the Center in 2013 after serving as Reuters’s campaign data reporter for the 2012 election. At Reuters, he analyzed contributions from top technology companies to the Obama and Romney campaigns, served as the lead reporter on a story revealing that Romney's national energy adviser made political contributions exceeding federal legal limits, and uncovered links between the Republican Party and a group of special operations “spies and commandos” formed to criticize Obama's national security record. Before Reuters, he served on the staff at Public Citizen, where he was chief investigator for the White House For Sale project, which examined the top bundlers and donors to the 2008 presidential candidates, and worked for the Center, where he analyzed classified documents stemming from the investigation of abuses at Abu Ghraib. While at the Center, he participated in its investigation of the Oil and Gas industry, winning a Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Outstanding Online Reporting award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.

A new filing says two former senators were part of a team that earned $150,000 for roughly a month of work.

U.S. sanctions against Russia are becoming a boon for Washington's lobbyists.

D.C. firm will fight U.S. sanctions

Being a deadbeat does not mean you cannot read secret documents.

Washington ignored warnings that Afghans were unlikely to embrace protein-rich soy products.

Those on Capitol Hill who approve and oversee military intelligence spending benefit from a stream of industry campaign funding.

A major defense contractor used its connections on Capitol Hill to keep a troubled drone aircraft aloft at a cost of billions of dollars.

Tracking embryo research and cloning efforts from 1996 to 2004

Across Asia, biotechnology sector thrives

State parties spend hundreds of millions on consulting

How the drug industry uses non-profits to push its interests

Groups tied to FDA-regulated industry paying for agency officials' trips

WASHINGTON, October 8, 2004 — The military's mission at Abu Ghraib was inadequately planned almost from conception. It was subordinated to p

WASHINGTON, October 31, 2004 — Classified documents, obtained and posted by the Center for Public Integrity, reveal the extent to which prob