In the wake of the Philippine [3] government's cancellation [4] of the $75,000 per month contract with the Washington D.C. law firm and lobbyshop Venable [5], Malou Mangahas from the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism has shifted the spotlight onto other contracts. "Since 2001, the Arroyo administration has spent at least $3.7 million ... on eight multiple, loosely monitored, and largely secret consultancy contracts for eight US-based lobby and law firms," he writes. Mangahas reveals that the Arroyo administration also has a $1-million per year deal with Burson-Marsteller [6], a $216,000 a year contract for lobbying with Bannerman & Associates [7] and legal advice from White & Case [8] LLP. There have also been four other agreements, including one with Patton Boggs [9].