About the Author

 

PETER SCHWEIZER is the president of the Government Accountability Institute and the William J. Casey Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 2008 and 2009 he served as a consultant to the White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting and is a former consultant to NBC News. He is the author of Throw Them All Out, which exposed congressional insider trading and prompted a 60 Minutes investigation. Slate called it “the book that started the STOCK Act stampede.”