Schweizer's early work at Jeremiah Denton's National Forum Foundation (NFF) focused on major fronts in the Cold War. He co-authored a National Review article with Denton's son, James (often cited as Jim), called "Murdering SDI", about the suspicious deaths of several European officials who supported the Strategic Defense Initiative. While at the NFF, Schweizer also published a report titled "The Meaning and Destiny of the Sandinista Revolution". Schweizer is credited as the executive producer on In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Words and Deed (2004), which is based on his 2003 book Reagan's War. Rotten Tomatoes has given the film an 11% freshness rating based on just 9 reviews. Writing in The New York Times, Ned Martel criticized the film for casting "all issues and personalities exclusively in black and white". He concluded that "Reagan's praises are sung in an operatic documentary that rises to new heights, slipping the surly bonds of hagiography."[6] In The Daily News, Robert Dominguez praised the film for "good use of historical footage to show how a B-list Hollywood actor made the unlikely ascension to commander-in-chief". However, he concludes that, because the film relies so heavily on talking heads like Schweizer and Caspar Weinberger, it "comes off as so much Republican Party propaganda". From 2008–2009, Schweizer served as a consultant to the Office of Presidential Speechwriting in the White House.[8] In March 2009, Schweizer parlayed that experience into a new venture with fellow White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen. Together, Schweizer and Thiessen opened Oval Office Writers LLC. The firm specializes in preparation for Congressional testimony, as well as pitching Op-Eds, and book proposals.[9] As a political communications expert, Schweizer's notable clients include Sarah Palin, who he advised on foreign policy.[10] In 2012, Steve Kroft used Schweizer's work as the basis for a blockbuster report on CBS’ 60 Minutes about Congressional insider trading. Titled "Insiders: The road to the STOCK act", Kroft relied heavily on Schweizer's reporting in Throw Them All Out, which CBS independently verified, to demonstrate how members of Congress trade stocks unethically.[11] The book demonstrates how politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Spencer Bachus have inoculated themselves against criminal charges for insider trading.[12] The following year, Kroft revisited Schweizer's work to create another 60 Minutes report on how members of Congress use the funds of their political action committees for private inurement.[13] In 2012, Schweizer's GAI authored a report about President Obama's daily briefs. The report consisted of three pages: an executive summary, and a 2-page table with monthly tallies of how many times the daily briefing appeared on the President's calendar according to www.whitehouse.gov. The report concluded that Obama only attended 42.09% of his daily briefings.[14] Schweizer's business partner at Oval Office Writers, Marc Thiessen, promptly penned a column in the The Washington Post titled "Why is Obama skipping more than half of his daily intelligence meetings?",[15] which yielded a flood of media coverage and an attack ad from American Crossroads. Two weeks later, a correspondent at The Washington Post fact-checked the charge that Obama skipped more than half of his daily briefings and assigned it "Three Pinocchios".[16] Thiessen responded to this report, giving "Four Pinocchios" to the fact-checker.[17] The Post asserted Schweizer misrepresented the President's Daily Brief as a meeting, when it is actually a Top Secret document that Obama reads daily, citing its own previous reporting on how Obama approached the PDB.[18] A year later, Schweizer authored another GAI report about the Obama administration which claimed that the President failed to meet often enough with Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius during the height of the botched roll out of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).[19] He publicized the report with a story for Politico titled "When Barry Met Kathy: Almost never, it turns out".[20] Schweizer's report relied on publicly available information about the President's schedule, but three months later, after making FOIA requests of non-public documents, The Hill found evidence of multiple meetings with both scheduled to attend, including seven specifically about the ACA.[21] In addition to his prolific non-fiction writing, Schweizer has co-authored two novels with former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Schweizer is also a member of the Research Advisory Council of the James Madison Institute.[22] Schweizer contributed to Glenn Beck's book Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schweizer

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