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- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) (englisch für: Bürger für Verantwortlichkeit und Ethik in Washington) ist eine US-amerikanische Organisation mit Sitz in Washington, D.C., deren erklärtes Ziel die Bekämpfung von Korruption in Parlaments- und Regierungskreisen der USA ist. CREW bezeichnet sich als „progressiv“ und arbeitet mit anderen, eher dem linken Spektrum zuneigenden Non-Profit-Organisationen zusammen. CREW wurde 2001 durch Norman L. Eisen und die Geschäftsführerin , früher Beraterin zweier demokratischer Abgeordneter (John Conyers und Senator Charles Schumer), gegründet. Oftmals wird CREW als den Demokraten nahestehendes Gegenstück zu Judicial Watch bezeichnet, einer den Republikanern nahestehende Organisation, die maßgeblich am Amtsenthebungsverfahren gegen Präsident Bill Clinton beteiligt war. Es bestehen – nach Angaben der konservativen Washington Times – enge finanzielle und personelle Verbindungen zwischen CREW und Funktionsträgern der Demokraten. Eisen trat im Februar 2019 aus dem Vorstand aus. (de)
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) and nonpartisan U.S. government ethics and accountability watchdog organization. Founded in 2003 as a counterweight to conservative government watchdog groups such as Judicial Watch, CREW works to expose ethics violations and corruption by government officials and institutions and to reduce the role of money in politics. Its activities include investigating, reporting and litigating government misconduct, requesting and forcing government information disclosure through FOIA requests, and filing congressional ethics complaints against individuals, institutions and agencies. Its projects have included the publication of "CREW's Most Corrupt Members of Congress", an annual report in which CREW lists the people it determines to be the Federal government of the United States's most corrupt politicians. From 2005 and 2014 the annual reports named 25 Democrats and 63 Republicans. David Brock became CREW's chairman in 2014 and stepped down in 2016. He was replaced by Richard Painter, who went on to take a leave of absence to run as a Democrat in Minnesota's 2018 U.S. Senate special election. Under Painter's leadership, CREW pursued aggressive litigation against the Trump administration, which it called the "most unethical presidency" in U.S. history. CREW filed 41 lawsuits during George W. Bush's administration, 38 during Barack Obama's administration and, by January 2018, 180 against the Trump administration. (en)
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