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The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) is a "a new conservative investigative research organization."<ref>Marc Thiessen, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-obama-skipping-more-than-half-of-his-daily-intelligence-meetings/2012/09/10/6624afe8-fb49-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html "Why is Obama skipping more than half of his daily intelligence meetings?]The Washington Post: Opinions; September 10, 2012</ref>. The GAI states as its mission "to investigate and expose crony capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance."<ref>[http://g-a-i.org/mission g-a-i mission], organizational website, accessed October 2012.</ref>
The GAI has several ties to right-wing groups such as [[Citizens United]], the [[American Conservative Union]], [[Young America's Foundation]], and the [[Hoover Institution]], through its key staff and board members:
* [[Peter Schweizer]], president of the GAI, is a researcher for the [[Hoover Institution]] in Stanford, California.<ref>[http://www.hoover.org/fellows/9706 "Fellows"], Hoover Institution website, accessed October 2012</ref>. Mr. Schweizer is also on the Research Advisory Council of the [[James Madison Institute]],<ref>[http://www.jamesmadison.org/about/research-advisory-council.html "James Madison Institute: Research Advisory Council"], organizational website, accessed October 2012</ref>, a member of the [[State Policy Network]], which itself is a member of the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]].<br>*Executive Chairman and co-founder of the GAI, Stephen Bannon, is the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News LLC, the parent company of [http://www.breitbart.com/ Breitbart.com], a conservative news and opinion website, founded by conservative blogger [[Andrew Breitbart]].<ref>[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/andrew_breitbart/index.html?inline=nyt-per "Andrew Breitbart, Conservative Blogger, Dies at 43"],The New York Times; March 1, 2012</ref><ref name="team">[http://g-a-i.org/team/ "g-a-i team"], organizational website, accessed October 2012</ref>. *Board member, [[Ron Robinson]], is a director of both [[Citizens United]]<ref>[http://www.citizensunited.org/who-we-are.aspx "Citizens United: Who We Are"], organizational website, accessed October 2012,</ref> and the [[American Conservative Union]].<ref>[http://conservative.org/about-acu/board-of-directors/"American Conservative Union: Board of Directors"], organization website, accessed October 2012</ref><ref name="team"/>. Mr. Robinson has also acted as the president of the [[Young America's Foundation]] for over thirty years.<ref>[http://www.yaf.org/ronrobinson.aspx "Ron Robinson, President"], Young America's Foundation website, accessed October 2012</ref>.
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