Breton Peace is an attorney specializing in the representation of
domestic and international clients involved in the development of a
variety of complex energy, infrastructure, and real estate
projects.
Bret is a graduate of Stanford University with an undergraduate
degree in religious studies, and the University of Michigan Law
School where he was the recipient of the school's most prestigious
academic scholarship, the Clarence Darrow Award. At Michigan, he
also earned awards for highest class mark in the areas of corporate
criminality and civil procedure, served as an associate editor for
the Journal of Law Reform, and graduated cum laude.
Bret's legal work includes a wide range of first-of-a-kind
transactions in highly regulated industries such as nuclear energy,
federal land management, gaming, and telecommunications. His prior
experience includes practice at an international law firm and as
in-house counsel for a new build nuclear power plant project in the
Middle East.
Bret lives in El Cajon, California, with his wife, Noel; his
daughter, Elena; and his two sons, August and Ezra.
His work takes him regularly to the United Arab Emirates and the
Republic of Korea.
This is his first book.
l> Gary Condit was the cofounder and leader of the moderate
"Blue Dog" Democrats that held the balance of power in Washington
during Bill Clinton's second term.
This brief but productive period marks the only time in American
history that an organized group of congressional members
successfully drove policy around the entrenched partisan interests
of the two dominant political parties.
Condit's public career began in California. The partnership that
made it tick, however, had its roots in an Oklahoma high school
where Gary Condit and Carolyn Berry met, fell in love, and began a
lifetime relationship that would produce two children, Chad and
Cadee.
Condit's career path to Washington began as the youngest
Vietnam-era mayor in America, and weaved its way through a lost
battle with California's legendary self-described "Ayatollah of the
Legislature," Speaker Willie Brown.
When a political Wall Street scandal erupted in Washington and lead
to a local congressman's resignation, Condit had a clear path out
of Sacramento and into a new life as a California congressman in
DC.
As he did in Sacramento, Condit wasted no time before charting his
own course on the national stage. He opposed NAFTA, despite intense
lobbying from his own district's wine industry and President
Clinton himself. He voted against the landmark repeal of
Glass-Steagall protections and was one of a handful of members who
voted for the first war in Iraq and against the ill-fated second
intervention triggered by intelligence community claims of weapons
of mass destruction.
Condit's conflict with the intelligence community began with the
CIA orchestrated intervention in Yugoslavia. In the aftermath of
that war, Condit, a member of the House intel committee, was a
persistent force in compelling the prosecution of Slobodan
Milosevic.
Condit was at the apex of a career marked by extraordinary
bipartisan influence in both Washington and in the California
Capitol. All of that derailed when, in May 2001, Chandra Levy,
disappeared.
What followed was one of the most bizarre periods of American
history. It tested and denied justice to two families, and revealed
the ugly underbelly of DC's political, media, and law-enforcement
establishments.
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