Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft [3] is opening a lobbying firm, the Ashcroft Group [4], to provide "strategic consulting, security and internal investigative services, and crisis counseling [5]" to countries, corporations, and industry and political associations. According to a spokesperson, the new firm expects "to grow rapidly." Ashcroft Group staff include David Ayres, formerly Ashcroft's chief of staff, and Juleanna Glover Weiss [6], a lobbyist at the Clark & Weinstock [7] firm, where she "helped the Iraqi Governing Council [8]'s U.S. rep on 'messaging'," according to [9] O'Dwyer's PR Daily. Previously, Glover Weiss was Vice-President Dick Cheney [10]'s press secretary. The Center for Responsive Politics [11]' Larry Noble said [12] Ashcroft is "clearly trading off the whole anti-terrorism and 9/11 aspect of his being attorney general. ... I think he'll probably find it very profitable."