Ashcroft Group: "Let our Client's Radar Soar"

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's lobbying firm has at least two new clients. Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) hired the Ashcroft Group "to help secure the U.S. government's approval to sell a weapons system to the South Korean Air Force." Since their early-warning radar system uses U.S. military technology, IAI must "secure approval from the Department of State's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls" for the sale. The Hill notes, "Israel has come under criticism from the U.S. government for selling arms to countries hostile to the United States, such as China and South Africa." O'Dwyer's reports that the France-based company LTU Technologies also hired the Ashcroft Group, "to land homeland security contracts." LTU products perform "content-based search, retrieval and classification of images and videos" and also monitor email.