In a Class of Their Own

"Shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist hijackings, the Pentagon hired the Rendon Group to orchestrate sympathetic media coverage around the globe, including Muslim countries. The firm has worked for the government of Kuwait since the Persian Gulf War. In the 1990s, the CIA hired the Rendon Group to wage a public relations war against Saddam Hussein. ... Rendon helped create and promote the Iraqi National Congress, the exile group headed by Ahmed Chalabi." The PR firm has come under scrutiny again, for receiving more than $14,000 of Massachusetts' anti-terrorism funds to videotape a state police graduation ceremony in August 2002.