Norman Eisen is the chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. From 2009-2011 her served as chief White House ethics lawyer for President Obama, and from 2011-2014 as US Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
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