Brad Bennett

Another former Smith communications director, <a href="http://desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Brad%20Bennett%20%20LinkedIn.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 18.59px;">Brad Bennett</a>, left Smith's office and eventually transitioned into gigs at both <a href="http://www.climateinvestigations.org/hill_knowlton_pr" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 18.59px;">Hill and Knowlton</a> (a PR firm with roots in tobacco industry denial tactics which did PR on behalf of America's Natural Gas Alliance, ANGA) and <a href="http://desmogblog.com/dci-group" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 18.59px;">DCI Group</a>, the latter of which has <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/blog/science-denial-and-andrea-saul-%E2%80%93-romney-2012-campaign-spokesperson" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 18.59px;">key Exxon ties</a> and was <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/04/13092/dci-group-subpoenaed-expanding-exxon-climate-denial-investigation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 18.59px;">subpoenaed</a> in April by the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Attorneys General probe.