Andrew Kreig is a Washington, DC-based commentator, drawing on his careers in law, business and journalism. His research interests are on government decision-making (including official corruption in both major parties), harms from such misconduct to the U.S. economy and constitutional rights, and opportunities for economic growth via the new media that he helped enable through broadband technology. Among his affiliations are as a Senior Fellow with Brandeis University’s Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and as a contributor to Connecticut Watchdog.

As President and CEO of the Wireless Communications Association International from 1996 until last summer, Kreig led its evolution into the premier worldwide advocate for high-capacity wireless services. Assisted by government policies, such services include tech-enabled efficiencies in community economic development, education, green technology, health care, military preparedness and public safety protections for homeland security. Previously, he authored thousands of bylined news and magazine articles, plus the pioneering 1987 book “Spiked: How Chain Management Corrupted America’s Oldest Newspaper.” The book documented unethical practices within the news media, including misleading applications by prominent news industry executives to win coveted Pulitzer Prizes.

Listed in numerous Who’s Who volumes for more than a dozen years, he has lectured on five continents about communications issues and has been active in civic affairs in Washington. He holds degrees from Yale Law School and University of Chicago School of Law. His previous employers include the Hartford Courant, Connecticut General Assembly Speaker Irving Stolberg, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf in Boston and the global law firm Latham & Watkins.

Now a radio show host and magazine columnist, he returns to his reporting roots via new media -- and welcomes inputs via: AKreig@brandeis.edu or Andrew@EagleViewDC.com.

Blog Entries by Andrew Kreig

Fans of House Health Option Cite Rights, Hopes, But Risk Big Defeat

3 Comments | Posted November 4, 2009 | 05:26 PM (EST)


Defying Washington’s conventional wisdom on health care reform, two senior Democratic House members are preparing a grassroots campaign to sustain a vigorous public option following a vote scheduled Saturday.

To keep Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proposed successor to H.R. 3200 as strong as possible during conference negotiations with the Senate, House Judiciary...

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Will An Oct. 27 Hill Hearing Make History For Your Health Rights?

6 Comments | Posted October 19, 2009 | 12:06 PM (EST)


To energize public support for robust health care reform, a civil rights icon and two House leaders are planning a hearing and rally Oct. 27 on Capitol Hill.

Their ambitious plan is to duplicate for health care the same kind of breakthrough legal reform achieved in civil rights by 1960s...

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Why Did Feds Persecute Celebrity Expert Cyril Wecht? Who's Next?

16 Comments | Posted October 5, 2009 | 08:20 PM (EST)


Like many government employees, Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht of Pittsburgh sometimes sent faxes from his office on personal matters. On Feb. 12, 2002, for example, he sent a New Jersey group a bill for a speech.

Four years later, the Justice Department used that fax for one...

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Siegelman Blasts DoJ and Judge In 'Final' Reply Seeking Hearing

6 Comments | Posted September 21, 2009 | 08:21 PM (EST)


Facing a sentence of 20 additional years in prison recommended by Bush Justice Department holdovers, former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman finally took off the gloves Sept. 21 against his prosecutors and the judge -- and, for once, skipped any mention of Karl Rove.

Citing new evidence since his 2006...

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DoJ Attack On Siegelman's Rights Threatens Election Rights For All

8 Comments | Posted September 9, 2009 | 04:24 PM (EST)


On Aug. 27, holdover officials from the Bush Justice Department filed 226 pages arguing that former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and his co-defendant have presented no evidence since their 2006 bribery convictions that justifies a hearing or new trial.

No evidence?  

As too often in the past, DoJ...

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Gagged Former FBI Translator Claims U.S. Rep Bribe Evidence

16 Comments | Posted August 8, 2009 | 08:45 PM (EST)


Seeking to overcome years of gag restraints, former FBI contract translator Sibel Edmonds reportedly claimed in an Aug. 8 deposition that several leaders in Congress and other high-level U.S. officials were suspected early this decade of being bribed by Turkey's government.

Edmonds, who had been silenced by a gag...

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Did the DoJ Blackmail Siegelman Witness With Sex Scandal?

15 Comments | Posted July 21, 2009 | 10:34 AM (EST)


The top government witness in the 2006 federal conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges is providing new evidence that prosecutors failed to fulfill their legal obligation to provide the defense with all records documenting witness-coaching.

Former Siegelman aide Nick Bailey swears that prosecutors failed to...

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As Rove Testifies About Firings At Justice, Why Did DoJ Fire Whistleblower?

13 Comments | Posted July 8, 2009 | 06:03 PM (EST)


New questions are surfacing about political intrigue at the U.S. Justice Department after former White House political strategist Karl Rove provided his long-awaited responses to House Judiciary Committee staff Tuesday about allegations that he pressured prosecutors to target Democrats nationally.

Few details have emerged about Rove's questioning on such...

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Alabama Decisions Illustrate Abuse of Judicial Power

5 Comments | Posted June 10, 2009 | 11:17 AM (EST)


The plight of litigants who face a biased judge is illustrated by the track record of a prominent Alabama federal judge, as well by major recent decisions requiring new trials in West Virginia and Georgia courts.

The track record of Chief U.S. District Judge Mark E. Fuller...

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Siegelman's First Trial Judge Blasts U.S. Prosecutors, Seeks Probe of 'Unfounded' Charges

41 Comments | Posted May 21, 2009 | 06:17 PM (EST)


One of the most experienced federal judges in recent Alabama history is denouncing the U.S. Justice Department prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. Retired Chief U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon of Birmingham calls for a probe of misconduct by federal prosecutors ─ including their alleged "judge-shopping," jury-pool "poisoning" and...

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Siegelman Deserves New Trial Because of Judge's 'Grudge,' Evidence Shows

62 Comments | Posted May 15, 2009 | 05:02 PM (EST)


$300 Million in Bush Contracts Enriched Judge's Private Company

The Alabama federal judge who presided over the 2006 corruption trial of the state's former governor holds a grudge against the defendant for helping to expose the judge's own alleged corruption six years ago. Former Gov. Don Siegelman therefore deserves a...

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Probe the Past To Protect the Future

Posted March 4, 2009 | 02:56 PM (EST)


To build the public confidence needed for economic recovery, Congressional leaders need to be much tougher in overseeing such high-level decision-making as the $30 billion more in bailouts for American International Group (AIG) that the Obama administration announced on Monday.

After so much savings and job loss the public...

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Why the President "Stepped Out" During His Inaugural Parade

Posted January 21, 2009 | 10:15 PM (EST)


Illustrating President Obama's ability to mix action with powerful symbolism, the public saw him suddenly climb from his armored limo during his Inaugural Parade and greet enthusiastic crowds assembled outside the National Archives and Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue.

The unannounced gesture matched a suggestion last fall by the...

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