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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A lot of attention is paid, or at least, beginning to get paid to military service provision as a business enterprise. Our Pentagon has been changing for years now, even decades, to adjust to a post-Cold War world. One aspect of this change has been a concentrated focus on technological weaponry, which in turn, reduced the need (or the presumption of need, depending where you fall in the outsourcing debate) for manpower, or at least, in house manpower.</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are very good arguments for outsourcing many aspects of the military, including security. There are also very good arguments for keeping these services within the government's structure. Many factors come in and each situation proves a different answer. As long as there is not proper oversight, it is not really possible to understand the true impact of outsourcing these services. Basically, you just get ripped off.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But that's another topic.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What has received less attention is the clever seeping of high-end intelligence officials into the private sector. This is, of course, nothing new. Public officials go into the private sector all the time. Policemen retire and become private detectives. Anyone has been able to hire someone like this to snoop, surveil, whatever for decades. They made for great TV shows. Generals and government officials often find themselves on boards of huge companies because of their knowledge of the world and of people in government, in some cases, because of their knowledge of people in contracting agencies. Wackenhut was began 50 years ago by a former FBI agent. Corporations have employed all kinds of intelligence gathering personnel and techniques for years. There are countless examples.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Information and experience are traded on all the time for any number of reasons. Water runs downhill.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So it should really be no surprise when Cofer Black, former anti-terrorist Czar at the CIA, former Counterterrorism poohbah at the State Department, current Vice-President at everybody's favorite security company, <b>Blackwater</b> USA (jeees, how many hats can one guy wear?) merged his own company, The Black Group with two others (Terrorism Research Center, Inc. and Technical Defense) to form Total Intelligence Solutions, Inc., a company which, in Black's words:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Total Intel brings the intelligence gathering methodology and analytical skills traditionally honed by CIA operatives directly to the board room. With a service like this, CEOs and their security personnel will be able respond to threats quickly and confidently --whether it's determining which city is safest to open a new plant in or working to keep employees out of harm's way after a terrorist attack."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CEO of Total Intelligence, Robert Richer states:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This new organization unites experts formerly in the government space with terrorism and information warfare experts in the private sector to create an agile and responsive security service for the private sector. [W]e can offer an established worldwide network of experts who can assess the global economic, social and political sensitivities that Fortune 500 companies need to navigate."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some may remember Richer as the man Porter Goss appointed as Deputy Director of Operations at the CIA to replace James Pavitt. Upon leaving the CIA, he went to Blackwater USA before starting up TIS. The COO of the company, Enrique Prado, brings a ton of experience to the company as well. Prado, who currently serves as VP of Special Government Programs for Blackwater USA, is a 24 year veteran of the CIA with 12 years in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and 10 years with the CIA's "paramilitary" group, the Special Operations Group.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TIS also provides services to the US government in the "war on terror" which I was just reminded of, again, by George Bush who stated today, "And we are at war."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like I said, this isn't really new. Since at least 911, and definitely since invading Iraq, there has been a lot of new companies focusing on security measures and intelligence analysis for the private sector. A lot of this started because of the market developed by the reconstruction effort in Iraq, but also it is a continuance of something that has been going on for decades.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 1970's companies like Control Risks and Kroll began providing all sorts of information and contingency plans for companies operating in unstable areas. Understanding regional differences for business purposes and capitalizing on this has been going as long as there has been trade. And because of the investments, this knowledge is worth the money and worth the people best suited to accurately analyze situations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Since 911, there has been a real explosion in these types of companies.</b> They work for governments and they work for the private sector. A lot of these companies are cross-over companies, providing intelligence analysis, training, and security, like Diligence LLC, which is loaded with former US and British officials like William Webster, Joe Allbaugh, Mike Baker, Lord Powell of Bayswater... Some specialize more in one area than in others, like Blackwater, loaded as well with former officials including the Pentagon's former Inspector General and the three at TIS. Some are subsidiaries of much larger companies like MPRI, now owned by L-3 Communications (who themselves provide intelligence analysis to the USG), which once boasted, "We have more Generals per square foot here than in the Pentagon." (Which, come to think of it, doesn't make sense. If there were a General in my bathroom, I'd have more Generals per square foot in my bathroom than the Pentagon, who's square foot ratio would be quite lower, being it is much larger) </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One has to wonder if the revolving door has just simply turned into a corridor.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But getting back to Total Intelligence Resources and companies dealing mainly in intelligence analysis, in the 21st century, where information is traded all across the board, and in all kinds of ways, one doesn't really know where the government begins and corporations end, and to what extent these hinge companies with clients on all sides of the cannon are effecting things.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I am not insinuating they are, I am just asking, "Do we know?"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What kind of business climate are we going to be living in where companies are able to hire government trained spooks for any number of tasks?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Take for instance the above mentioned Diligence</b> who, as Businessweek reported recently, at the behest of Barbour Griffith and Rogers (a lobbying firm, who incidentally, Ed Rogers also sits on the board of Diligence) a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">t the behest of a Russian firm, Alpha Group Consortium, penetrated KPMG with a covert operative for the purposes of obtaining KPMG's audit of Alpha Group's rival, IPOC International Growth Fund, Ltd.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From the start, Diligence's goal was clear, if far from simple: Infiltrate KPMG to obtain advance information about the audit of IPOC, an investment fund based in Bermuda. Russian conglomerate Alfa Group Consortium hired Barbour Griffith & Rogers through a subsidiary, and the lobbying firm in turn hired Diligence. Alfa is dueling with IPOC for a large stake in the Russian telecom company MegaFon. "We have a good chance of success on this project,"[Nick] Day [co-founder of Diligence and operative who pulled this off] wrote in an internal Diligence memo, referring to the Bermuda espionage effort. The memo, which BusinessWeek reviewed, added: "We are doing it in a way which gives plausible deniability, and therefore virtually no chance of discovery." Similar Diligence operations, the memo noted, had been successful before.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Within Diligence the KPMG campaign was dubbed Project Yucca, and it unfolded in stages, according to people familiar with the operation and documents filed in a court proceeding involving IPOC and Alfa in the British Virgin Islands. First, two Diligence employees contacted KPMG's Bermuda offices pretending to be organizers of a legal conference on the island, according to a person familiar with the operation. The Diligence staff members called KPMG secretaries and asked about how the office worked. Soon, Diligence had the names of a handful of KPMG employees who might have access to the IPOC data. But Diligence wanted to narrow the list.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The intelligence firm was originally looking for people who fit one of two profiles for sources likely to leak the audit information, according to a Project Yucca planning memo.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And that's exactly what they did.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, corporate espionage has been going on for a long time, too. It's just in these days, there has emerged a huge demand for the best experienced, and the best practiced in these types of things. Companies today are employing the vast knowledge and power developed by the two leading countries in intelligence operations, the US and the UK. In fact, it may get to the point where you can't do business without an intelligence consultant that operates like a sub-unit of the CIA.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And there are other problems as well, like Walter Pincus pointed out last year in his Washington Post article</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But, by using contract employees, government agencies lose control over those doing this sensitive work and an element of profit is inserted into what is being done. Also, as investigations have revealed, politics and corruption may be introduced into the process.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The office of Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte has quietly begun to study the contracting issue because "it already is a problem," a senior intelligence official said in a recent interview.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A related concern for intelligence agencies inside and outside the Pentagon is that the government is training people and getting them security clearances, but they then leave for better pay offered by contractors, sometimes to do the same work.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Once cleared, they can get a higher salary outside and they are gone," the official said. "We're leasing back our former employees."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not only does this raise a number of question legally in the corporate world, IPOC is now suing Diligence and Alpha, the CIA itself is rumored to send at least 50% of it's budget out the door</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To a degree never before witnessed in American history, many core functions of the U.S. intelligence community are being outsourced to the private sector. Outsourcing has taken place in almost every aspect of intelligence work -- collection, counterintelligence, covert operations –- but nowhere has the recent trend been more dramatic than in the analysis that informs what the President receives on his desk every morning. "The outsourced analysis piece, particularly since 9/11, is a significant portion of the analysis that's done," said <b>John Gannon, a former CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence and now head of BAE Systems' Global Analysis Group. </b>"And it's growing."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unlike the rest of the government, the intelligence community is allowed to keep its entire budget secret –- "black," in spy jargon -– so it's impossible to say exactly how much outsourcing has occurred. But some experts have speculated that at least 50% of the entire budget now flows to the private sector.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There's also the problem of the wrong analysis getting around, and becoming truth. I wonder even if it would be possible to contract out jobs to plant "truths", or make "truths" or to circulate "truths".</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is all speculation. But the bottom line is, we don't know. In the last six years the Bush administration has greatly accelerated government outsourcing. Don't blame him alone, Al Gore was much the leader in "reinventing government" in his day, however Bush has taken it to an unprecedented level and enriched his buddies along the way. Congress has done very little except for Representative David Price's (D-NC) amendment last year to look into intelligence outsourcing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. Rep. David Price (NC-04) took the lead today in calling attention to a “major shift in the way our intelligence community operates.” The North Carolina Democrat offered an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization bill to examine the extent to which private companies are conducting sensitive intelligence work for the government. The amendment passed the House by a unanimous voice vote.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The last few years have seen fundamental changes in our intelligence agencies,” Price said. “Some reports estimate that approximately half of the intelligence community’s budget is now spent through contracts awarded to private sector firms. This is not an inconsequential matter, and it requires the immediate attention of Congress.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I don't know how that's been going, but it is a step in the right direction.</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">--</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2003, <b>Allbaugh and Barbour</b> opened a lobbying firm called New Bridge Strategies, funded by the BGR group, named for Barbour and former President HW Bush assistants Lanny Griffiths and Ed Rodgers. BGR had also delivered many $100s of millions in Katrina contracts for its clients, including $568 million for Florida firm Ash-Britt, one of <a href="http://www.nationalcorruptionindex.org/pages/profile.php?profile_id=229" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Jeb Bush’s</a> big fans.
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Allbaugh is Board Chairman of New Bridge Strategies. Its CEO is <a href="http://www.nationalcorruptionindex.org/pages/profile.php?profile_id=196" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Jamal Daniel</a>, a longtime benefactor of President Bush’s oft-scandalized brother Neil. Neil himself is listed as a Consultant to New Bridge Strategies.</span>
<b>Jamal Daniel, whose father was a founder of the Syrian Baath Party,</b> also co-chairs other companies with brother Neil, including Crest Investments, Ignite and Silvermat.
New Bridge Strategies’s website trumpets is ability to secure contracts in Iraq.
The firm is also a principal shareholder in<b> military contractor Diligence LLC</b>, with Allbough as its Deputy Chairman. Diligence’s mideast subsidiary is owned by Mohammed Al-Sagar, chairman of the Kuwait Parliament’s foreign relations committee.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The opportunity for business growth in the Middle East has never been better"- <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Burt" title="Richard Burt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Burt</a>, chairman of Diligence.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Diligence,LLC#Overview" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Overview</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Diligence,LLC#Bush_Administration_Connections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Bush Administration Connections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Diligence,LLC#Key_People" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Key People</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Diligence,LLC#Contact" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Contact</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Overview"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Overview</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">Diligence LLC</b> was formed by past members of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">CIA</a> and Britain's MI5 Intelligence Services, and is currently headed by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nick_Day" title="Nick Day" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Nick Day</a> a former MI5 agent.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> They have included experts in international law, journalism and intelligence services from post-Cold War which enables them to vet all sorts of future investment projects while providing security advice. More than half of their around 100 employees are former members of an intelligence service.</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.handelsblatt.de/pshb/fn/relhbi/sfn/buildhbi/cn/GoArt!200014,200811,1028636/SH/0/depot/0/index.html" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> They are related to </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_Bridge_Strategies" title="New Bridge Strategies" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">New Bridge Strategies</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, sharing addresses and many of the same board members.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Diligence first set up in Baghdad in July 2003. They started by providing payroll protection and delivery, personnel and facilities security, due diligence on potential Iraqi business ventures, training and management of personal security forces, and intelligence briefs.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The success of the business led to the development of the subsidiary, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Diligence_Middle_East,LLC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Diligence Middle East, LLC (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Diligence Middle East, LLC</a>, a partnership with the American company <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_Bridge_Strategies" title="New Bridge Strategies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Bridge Strategies</a> and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Al-Mal_Investment_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al-Mal Investment Company (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al-Mal Investment Company</a>, a Kuwaiti company chaired by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mohammed_Al-Sagar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohammed Al-Sagar (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mohammed Al-Sagar</a>, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Kuwaiti parliament.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/news/mercenery.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[2]</a> The new partnership provides clients with a range of services through out the Middle East and especially in Iraq.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.diligencemiddleeast.com/dme_iraq.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[3]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Said founder and CEO Mike Baker of the new company, "We are able to provide the highest quality information and security work available in Iraq because we have a core staff of more than 150 Iraqis with local knowledge, operating as full time project managers, security trainers, intelligence officers and security staff. By doing so, we are creating a solid, long-lasting, truly Iraqi company with a vested interest in its own success.”<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.portaliraq.com/shownews.php?id=206" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[4]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A new branch concentrating on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe will open in Berlin at the end of February 2006 under director <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Torsten_Hinkelmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Torsten Hinkelmann (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Torsten Hinkelmann</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.handelsblatt.de/pshb/fn/relhbi/sfn/buildhbi/cn/GoArt!200014,200811,1028636/SH/0/depot/0/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[5]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Diligence is a member of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Private_Security_Company_Association_of_Iraq" title="Private Security Company Association of Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Private Security Company Association of Iraq</a>.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Bush_Administration_Connections"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Bush Administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bush Administration</a> Connections</font></span></h2><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ed_Rogers" title="Ed Rogers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ed Rogers</a> is vice-chair New Bridge Strategies and Diligence. He is also the co-founder of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barbour,Griffith_and_Rogers" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbour, Griffith and Rogers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbour, Griffith and Rogers</a> a lobbying firm t</b>hat was the initial funder of Diligence and shares their floor with New Bridge in their DC office four blocks from the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=White_House&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="White House (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">White House</a>. Rogers has served in in the White House under the Reagan Administration, the Bush-Quayle campaign and the Bush 41 administration. Fellow founder of BG&R, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Haley_Barbour" title="Haley Barbour" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Haley Barbour</a>, whose connections to New Bridge raised concerns from his opponents, won Mississippi's governor's race in 2003.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1003/02barbour.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[6]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.politicsla.com/columns/guest/Stuart/111203_barbour.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[7]</a></font></li></ul><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_M.Allbaugh" title="Joe M. Allbaugh" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joe Allbaugh</a>, the deputy chairman of Diligence, resigned his post as head of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FEMA" class="mw-redirect" title="FEMA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">FEMA</a> on March 1, 2003, a post granted to him after serving as National Campaign Manager for the Bush-Cheney 2000 election. He left to spend time with his children, but quickly jumped into the start up of New Bridge as bombs began falling on Iraq.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=9544&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[8]</a></font></li></ul><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former head of the CIA station in Baghdad, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Whitley_Bruner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Whitley Bruner (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Whitley Bruner</a>, is now in the private sector as head of Diligence's operations in Iraq.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=9544&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[9]</a> As well, founder <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Baker" title="Mike Baker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Baker</a> is a former covert operator for the CIA.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.4law.co.il/Lea5.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[10]</a></font></li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Neil_Mallon_Bush" title="Neil Mallon Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Neil Bush</a> has been paid a $60,000 annual consulting fee by the president of New Bridge, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Howland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Howland (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John Howland</a> to aid in the procurement of contracts for companies seeking to do business in Iraq</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2004/03/02_403.html" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[11]</a></font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Key_People"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key People</font></span></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Advisory Board</font></b></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_H.Webster" title="William H. Webster" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">William H. Webster</a>: former director of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">FBI</a> and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">CIA</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edward_Mathias" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Mathias" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Edward Mathias</a>: <b>managing director of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carlyle_Group" title="Carlyle Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carlyle Group</a></b></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arnaud_de_Borchgrave" title="Arnaud de Borchgrave" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Arnaud de Borchgrave</a>: former President and CEO of UPI</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Dooner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Dooner (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Dooner</a>: chairman and CEO of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=McCann-Erickson_Worldgroup&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="McCann-Erickson Worldgroup (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">McCann-Erickson Worldgroup</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_H.Boggs_Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas H. Boggs Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thomas H. Boggs Jr.</a>: chairman <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patton_Boggs" title="Patton Boggs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Patton Boggs</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lord_Charles_Powell" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Charles Powell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lord Charles Powell</a>: former advisor to <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Margaret Thatcher</a> and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Major" title="John Major" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Major</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Howard</a>: former leader of the Conservative Party, UK</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Shiebler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Shiebler (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Shiebler</a>: asset manager</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_F.McLarty&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas F. McLarty (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thomas F. McLarty</a>: former President Clinton's Chief of Staff; current president of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kissenger_McLarty_Associates&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kissenger McLarty Associates (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><b>Kissenger</b> McLarty Associates</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rockwell_Schnabel" class="mw-redirect" title="Rockwell Schnabel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rockwell Schnabel</a>: founder <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trident_Capital" title="Trident Capital" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trident Capital</a></b></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kurt_J.Lauk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kurt J. Lauk (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kurt J. Lauk</a>: founder and president of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Globe_Capital_Partners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Globe Capital Partners (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Globe Capital Partners</a></font></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Management</font></b></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nick_Day" title="Nick Day" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nick Day</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.diligence.com/senior-management.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[12]</a>co-founder, chief operations officer</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marc_Triaureau&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marc Triaureau (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marc Triaureau</a>: chief financial officer</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ed_Rogers" title="Ed Rogers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ed Rogers</a>: vice-chairman</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_M.Allbaugh" title="Joe M. 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Allbaugh</a>: deputy chairman</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Russ_Corn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Russ Corn (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russ Corn</a>: managing director, London</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_Kestenbaum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Kestenbaum (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles Kestenbaum</a>: COO of Diligence Middle East</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Whitley_Bruner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Whitley Bruner (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Whitley Bruner</a>: director of Iraqi branch</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Greenaway&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jon Greenaway (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jon Greenaway</a>: managing director, Brussels</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ewan_McPhie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ewan McPhie (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ewan McPhie</a>: senior managing director, Washington DC</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Redman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Redman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Redman</a>: managing director, Moscow</font></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former management</font></b></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Baker" title="Mike Baker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Baker</a>: founder, chief executive officer (left company in 2005)</font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact</font></span></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Washington, D.C</b>
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">Diligence, Llc</b> or <b style="">Diligence Global Business Intelligence SA</b> is a CIA front company<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a></sup> or "spin-off"<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a></sup>, operating an industrial espionage network. Top staff include members of <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/UK" title="UK" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">UK</a> and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US" title="US" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">US</a> <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Intelligence_agencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Intelligence agencies" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">intelligence agencies</a>, originally created by former <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George H. W. Bush</a> administration members to obtain private contracts from <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Enron" title="" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Enron</a>. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2000, it was It claims to advise on corporate investments in foreign markets, as well as protecting corporations from legal investigations, what it calls “reputational threats”. The company has a mailbox address in Geneva, Switzerland, and post office boxes elsewhere, with members of the network being primarily contractors who work independently.</span></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#Origins_and_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Origins and history</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#Activities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Activities</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#Diligence_Middle_East" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Diligence Middle East</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#People" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">People</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#Advisory_Board" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Advisory Board</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#Formerly_affiliated_figures" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Formerly affiliated figures</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#Former_cases" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Former cases</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Origins_and_history"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Origins and history</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Diligence's website states that it was founded in 2000 “by former members of the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/CIA" title="CIA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CIA</a> and its British counterpart, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/MI5" title="MI5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MI5</a>.” <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> The company’s head office is in Geneva, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Switzerland</a>, at a serviced office. It is one of a growing number of organisations which sprang up to exploit the demand for private security in the wake of <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9/11" class="mw-redirect" title="9/11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9/11</a> and the wars in <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraq</a> and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Afghanistan</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2003 Diligence opened an office in Baghdad to provide security services and is now targeting <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Latin_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin America" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Latin America</a>.</font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Activities"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activities</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On its website Diligence summarises its activities as:</font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Due diligence of complicated cross border transactions</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Litigation support and international arbitration</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FCPA and anti-corruption concerns</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Reputational threats and controversy risk management</b></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brand and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Intellectual_property" title="Intellectual property" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">intellectual property</a> protection</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fraud and personnel issues</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Political risk and market entry studies <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The company’s website includes a selection of case studies. They are entirely unsourced and almost impossible to verify, but include elements of penetration and subversion of protest groups, as well as anti-union activities:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: beige; border: 1pt solid darkgoldenrod; padding: 13.2344px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Case Study 08</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Threat Assessment & Physical Security</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Diligence was retained by a prominent European scientific research group to provide early warning of a<b> possible attack by a violent activist organization</b> that had accused the institution of<b> testing products on animals </b>and that had also begun to harass managers of the institution. Our research indicated that there was friction within the activist group. The less extreme element believed that the group's violent actions not only alienated the public, but that violence would result in the facility being closed and testing moved to Eastern Europe, where research on animals would be under much less regulation and oversight. Diligence's staff played on these concerns, and managed to provide warning of any planned attacks. Information was passed to the police, arrests were made and senior managers at the facility were protected from assault. <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: beige; border: 1pt solid darkgoldenrod; padding: 13.2344px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Case Study 10</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Threat Assessment & Physical Security</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A large multinational was having <b>labor problems at a manufacturing plant in India.</b> There had been increasing unrest among its employees and more frequently<b>, impromptu strikes were being called for no apparent reason</b>. Furthermore, senior management at the plant had started to receive personal threats [...] Diligence was called in to help management better understand what was going on, to determine who was responsible and to provide early warning of the agitators' intentions. Former intelligence officers on the Diligence staff started to develop a network of sources within the work force. They quickly<b> determined that the strike instigators were local organized criminals who were trying to take over the union in an attempt to extort money from the workers and to benefit from theft at the plant</b>. They had hoped that by organizing strikes and making threats they would have the current union officials dismissed. Diligence worked with the plant managers, union officials, and local media sources to expose the perpetrators by publicizing their plans in a local newspaper. <sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: beige; border: 1pt solid darkgoldenrod; padding: 13.2344px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Case Study 01</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Commercial & Competitive Intelligence</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Western oil "major" was ready to embark on the acquisition of a large Russian oil company. The head of the company's mergers and acquisition group asked Diligence to determine the beneficial ownership of several offshore entities belonging to the potential Russian acquisition target.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Diligence launched a discreet process of identifying and isolating the company's offshore holdings to identify any misrepresentations or non-disclosure of material facts and embarked on an in-depth investigation of the backgrounds of the target company's management and key employees. Diligence's information enabled the client to identify and isolate areas of risk and cleared key personnel of having any links to criminal activities such as money laundering, tax evasion, or corporate fraud. The client successfully completed a $7 billion investment. <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Diligence_Middle_East"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Diligence Middle East</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now defunct, Diligence’s partners in </span><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Diligence_Middle_East&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Diligence Middle East (page does not exist)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Diligence Middle East</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> reportedly once included the Kuwaiti-based </span><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Al-Mal_Investment_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al-Mal Investment Company (page does not exist)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Al-Mal Investment Company</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and the Washington D.C.-based </span><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/New_Bridge_Strategies" title="New Bridge Strategies" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">New Bridge Strategies</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which provided DME with significant business development and networking skills because of their connections to the US government. New Bridge Strategies, was headed by </span><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Joe_M.Allbaugh" class="mw-redirect" title="Joe M. Allbaugh" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe M. Allbaugh</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Bush's campaign manager in 2000 and the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency until March. Other directors included Edward M. Rogers Jr., vice chairman, and Lanny Griffith, lobbyists who were assistants to the first President </span><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/George_HW_Bush" class="mw-redirect" title="George HW Bush" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">George HW Bush</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and had ties to the White House. Allbaugh also served as George W. Bush’s national campaign manager for the 2000 election and as the campaign manager for Bush’s first run for Texas governor in 1994. He also served as Governor </span><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">George W. Bush</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'s </span><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Chief_of_Staff" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief of Staff" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Chief of Staff</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Along with Bush’s longtime aides, </span><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Karen_Hughes" title="Karen Hughes" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Karen Hughes</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Karl Rove</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Allbaugh is known as one of the three members of Bush’s so-called “iron triangle</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">". </span><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The network of influence had been the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> subject of a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/bill_moyers_archive/" style="background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center" background-size="background-size" initial="initial" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" repeat="repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">TV investigation</a> that alleges <b>insider business deals between <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Douglas_Feith" class="mw-redirect" title="Douglas Feith" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Douglas Feith</a></b>, the Undersecretary of Defense and several companies many related to his "former" business associate <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Marc_Zell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marc Zell (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Marc Zell</a>, including: <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Zell,Goldberg_and_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zell, Goldberg and Company (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Zell, Goldberg and Company</a>, Diligence, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/New_Bridge_Strategies" title="New Bridge Strategies" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">New Bridge Strategies</a>, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Barber,Griffith_and_Rogers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barber, Griffith and Rogers (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Barber, Griffith and Rogers</a>, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/SAIC" class="mw-redirect" title="SAIC" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">SAIC</a> and The <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Iraqi_International_Law_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iraqi International Law Group (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Iraqi International Law Group</a>.</span></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="People"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People</font></span></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Nick_Day" title="Nick Day" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nick Day</a>. Chief Executive Officer: A short-timer in Britain's Security Service (MI5) Day is a founding member of Diligence, currently based in Bourg-en-Bresse, France. Following his government service, Day worked as a senior investigator for the now-defunct <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Maxima_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maxima Group (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maxima Group</a>, a European fraud investigations firm. According to <i>The Independent</i>, <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> Day joined the Marines at the age of 18 and rose only to the level of Second Lieutenant before becoming an officer in the Special Boat Service, the maritime equivalent of the SAS. Following time in Iraq, Northern Ireland and Bosnia (where he gathered intelligence), he joined MI5 where he served as a short-timer for just under two years. At the behest of William Webster and others, he was hired to front Diligence, in the wake of its post-Enron rebranding, with ex-CIA agent Mike Baker and others in 2000.</font></li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Mike_Baker" title="Mike Baker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Baker</a>, former CEO, spent 14 years at the CIA as a covert field operations officer specializing in counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Whitley_Bruner" title="Whitley Bruner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Whitley Bruner</a>, its chief operating officer in Baghdad, was once the CIA station chief in Iraq.</font></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Advisory_Board"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advisory Board</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of 6 June 2012 Diligence’s Advisory Board comprised of:</font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/William_Webster" title="William Webster" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Judge William Webster</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Charles_Powell" title="Charles Powell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Lord Charles Powell</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Edward_Mathias&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward Mathias (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Edward Mathias</font></a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Formerly_affiliated_figures"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Formerly affiliated figures</font></span></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Howard</a>, British Conservative politician, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Le_Cercle" title="Le Cercle" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Le Cercle</a> attendee.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Richard_Burt" title="Richard Burt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Burt</a>, visited 4 <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bilderberg_meetings" class="mw-redirect" title="Bilderberg meetings" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bilderberg meetings</a>, including the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/1986_Bilderberg" class="mw-redirect" title="1986 Bilderberg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1986 Bilderberg</a> where he took part in the discussion about "terrorism".</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Arnaud_de_Borchgrave" title="Arnaud de Borchgrave" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arnaud de Borchgrave</a>, attended the 1984 <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Washington_Conference_on_International_Terrorism" title="Washington Conference on International Terrorism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington Conference on International Terrorism</a>, an investor in the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11" title="9-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9-11</a> connected company, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Stratesec" title="Stratesec" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stratesec</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Former_cases"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former cases</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Diligence once had links to the US via the heavyweight Republican lobbying firm <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Barbour_Griffith%26_Rogers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barbour Griffith & Rogers (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbour Griffith & Rogers</a> (BGR) which has invested in the business, but divested itself following a scandal described below. Diligence also once worked in association with <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/New_Bridge_Strategies" title="New Bridge Strategies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Bridge Strategies</a>, a US firm with links to BGR that was set up to help companies secure Iraqi contracts. Clients are understood to include the American governmental agency <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/USAID" title="USAID" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">USAID</a> and a number of companies associated with <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Halliburton" title="Halliburton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Halliburton</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_09/b4023070.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Business Week</a>] reported how KPMG the accounting giant was infiltrated by Diligence in 2005. <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Barbour_Griffith%26_Rogers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barbour Griffith & Rogers (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbour Griffith & Rogers</a>, one of the most formidable lobbying firms in Washington, represented a Russian conglomerate whose archrival, IPOC International Growth Fund Ltd., was being audited by KPMG's Bermuda office. Day posed fraudulently as an MI5 agent and got an accountant to drop off inside information. Business Week adds this (note the mention of Alfa):</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(230, 238, 255); border: 1pt solid rgb(173, 199, 230); padding: 13.2344px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"From the start, Diligence's goal was clear, if far from simple: Infiltrate KPMG to obtain advance information about the audit of IPOC, an investment fund based in Bermuda. Russian conglomerate Alfa Group Consortium hired Barbour Griffith & Rogers through a subsidiary, and the lobbying firm in turn hired Diligence. Alfa is dueling with IPOC for a large stake in the Russian telecom company MegaFon. "We have a good chance of success on this project," Day wrote in an internal Diligence memo, referring to the Bermuda espionage effort. The memo, which BusinessWeek reviewed, added: "We are doing it in a way which gives plausible deniability, and therefore virtually no chance of discovery." Similar Diligence operations, the memo noted, had been successful before."</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Richard_Burt" title="Richard Burt" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Burt</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of Diligence's Advisory board is als</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">o <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Alfa_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alfa Bank (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alfa Bank</a>'s Senior Advisory Board in Moscow and as International Director of Barbour, Griffith and Rogers (who share Diligence's offices). On IPOC itself: one reader response in Businessweek states: "Try "googling" this: "IPOC" + "Leonid Reiman" + "Money Laundering". Nearly 300 hits."</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2005, KPMG <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Financial_Advisory_Services&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Financial Advisory Services</a> sued Diligence for fraud and unjust enrichment </b>in U.S. District Court in Washington. On June 20, 2006, the case settled. <i><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Business_Week&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Business Week (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Business Week</a></i> reports that Diligence paid KPMG $1.7 million, and IPOC sued both Diligence and Barbour Griffith & Rogers in the same District Court, alleging civil conspiracy, unjust enrichment, and other misdeeds</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">https://isgp-studies.com/911-supranational-suspects</a></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; 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background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">web.archive.org/Diligence website</a>, accessed 24 April, 2009.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; 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background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">'Case Study 08', <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061026084256/http://www.diligencellc.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=section.home&id=71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">web.archive.org/Diligence website</a>, accessed 24 April, 2000.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">'Case Study 10', <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.diligencellc.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=section.home&id=87" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">web.archive.org/Diligence website</a>, accessed 24 April, 2009.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">'Case Study 01', <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061026083820/http://www.diligencellc.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=section.home&id=80" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">web.archive.org/Diligence website</a>, accessed 24 April, 2009.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ed Vulliamy, 'America in the grip of Bush's "Iron Triangle"', <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/dec/03/uselections2000.usa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>The Observer</i></a>, 3 December, 2000. (Accessed October, 2008)</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Adrian Gatton and Clayton Hirst, '<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/resources_files/A_booty_for_the_barons_of_Baghdad.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">A booty for the barons of Baghdad</a>', <i>The Independent</i>, 8 February, 2004.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://lumpenproletariat.org/2016/08/24/guns-and-butter-presents-part-4-another-nineteen-investigating-legitimate-911-suspects-by-kevin-ryan/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">https://lumpenproletariat.org/2016/08/24/guns-and-butter-presents-part-4-another-nineteen-investigating-legitimate-911-suspects-by-kevin-ryan/</a></span></font></li></ol></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div>