Lincoln Group: External Links

The following are external articles related to the main article Lincoln Group.

Websites

• Lead21.org: "Since its inception in Fall 2001, Lead21 has been doing its part to cultivate the next generation of business leaders committed to building a dynamic future for the Republican Party."; Christian Bailey is a member of the Board of Directors.

General information

• "Companies Currently Offering Vetting/Due Diligence Services in Iraq," Provided by the Coalition Provisional Authority and the U.S. Department of State, undated: Lincoln Alliance Corporation:

"Lincoln is working with US and overseas corporations and organizations to develop an in-country capability in Baghdad and Basra. Located both at the center of power and the commercial gateway of the country, Lincoln will act as a central clearinghouse for businesses seeking to do business in Iraq. Lincoln will provide the information, research, and contacts necessary to develop and grow business within the country. Lincoln will also provide a threat and risk assessment service through its ASP service, allowing clients to understand and mitigate the perceived security risk and dangers present in country."

Lincoln Group news releases

• "Lincoln Group Leases Building to Iraq Securities Commission," February 12, 2005: "The Iraq Securities Commission recently leased a Lincoln Group property located on the banks of the Tigris across from the Presidential Palace. The building will provide an ideal location for the Commission's work in regulating and overseeing the Iraq Stock Exchange, and was chosen for its working environment, amenities, convenient location, and security."
• "Lincoln Group is Awarded a five year $100 million Global Media Support Contract by United States Special Operations Command," June 11, 2005.
• "Lincoln Group Awarded Strategic Communication Management Services Contract," October 9, 2006.
• "Lincoln Group Awarded Counter-IED Planners Contract," October 9, 2006.
• "Lincoln Group Awarded Focus Groups Task Order," January 25, 2007.
• "Lincoln Group Addresses National Security Issues at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government," April 10, 2007.

External articles

2004

• "Iraqex Rebrands", O'Dwyers PR Daily, March 16, 2004.
• "U.S. Force Taps PR Help for Iraq," O'Dwyers PR Daily, September 30, 2004.
• "Iraqex Wants Interns", O'Dwyers PR Daily, November 18, 2004.

2005

• "Lincoln Group contract with U.S. Special Operations Command," (PDF), The Raw Story, March 15, 2005 (FOIA'd by Petrelis).
• Spin of the Day: "Is that Business I Hear Booming?", March 16, 2005.
• "DOD awards $300M in psyops contracts," UPI, June 7, 2005.
• James W. Crawley, "Psychological warfare effort to be outsourced. Army command hires three firms to sway Afghans and Iraqis," Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia), June 10, 2005.
• Renae Merle, "Pentagon Funds Diplomacy Effort. Contracts Aim to Improve Foreign Opinion of United States", "Washington Post", June 11, 2005.
• Billmon, "Blowback," Whiskey Bar, June 12, 2005.
• "Soon They Will Love Us, And Throw Flowers," Corrente, June 13, 2005.
• "Lincoln Group Wants Senior PR Help in Iraq," O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub. req'd.), September 9, 2005.
• Mark Mazzetti and Borzou Daragahi, "U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press: Troops write articles presented as news reports. Some officers object to the practice," Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2005.
• Jonathan S. Landay, "U.S. military pays Iraqis for positive news stories on war", Knight Ridder - Washington Bureau, November 30, 2005.
• Steve Soto, "Pentagon Buying Good News Coverage From Iraqi Media," The Left Coaster, November 30, 2005.
• Al Pessin, "Defense Department Checking Allegations US Military Paid to Place 'News' Articles in Iraqi Press", Voice of America, November 30, 2005.
• Lolita C. Baldor, "US Military Unclear on 'Planted' Stories", Associated Press (SF Chronicle), November 30, 2005.
• Garance Franke-Ruta, "The Lincoln Group's Partisan Staffers," TAPPED, November 30, 2005.
• Billmon, "Land of Lincoln, Whiskey Bar, November 30, 2005.
• "US Military plants propaganda in Iraq - FOX News Contributor Bill Cowan advisor," News Hounds, November 30, 2005.
• Jason Vest, "US: The Hazy Story of the Lincoln Group," CORPWATCH, November 30, 2005.
• Jason Vest, "Missed Perceptions," GovExec.com, December 1, 2005.
• Jason Vest, "What's Lincoln Group?" GovExec.com, December 1, 2005.
• Jeff Gerth and Scott Shane, "U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers", New York Times, December 1, 2005.
• Garance Franke-Ruta, "The Iraqi-American Media," TAPPED, December 1, 2005.
• Josh White, "Military Planting Articles in Iraq Papers", Washington Post, December 1, 2005.
• Jonathan S. Landay, "White House expresses concern about paid-for news in Iraq", Knight Ridder Newspapers/San Luis Obisbo Tribune, December 1, 2005
• "So Who is Behind Planting Stories in Iraqi Press?" Editor & Publisher, December 1, 2005.
• Report: "U.S. paying Iraqi journalists," Hardball/MSNBC, December 1, 2005.
• Jonathan S. Landay, "White House expresses concern about paid-for news in Iraq," Knight Ridder Newspapers, December 1, 2005.
• Richard Edelman, "Pay for Play Back for A Second Run in Baghdad," Edelman.com, December 1, 2005.
• "Press Briefing by Scott McClellan", Transcript, White House Press Office, December 1, 2005.
• "Planted Propaganda," Washington Post, December 2, 2005.
• "Lincoln Group-Republican Party, CIA spies?-Garfield Media Talking Head?" Beltway Pinto Beans, December 2, 2005.
• Kate Randall, "Made in the USA 'free press' in Iraq. US military covertly pays to plant stories in Iraqi media," WSWS, December 2, 2005.
• Clay Waters, "NYT: U.S. Defying 'Freedom of the Press' in Iraq," NewsBusters, December 2, 2005.
• Tim Leslie, "The U.S. Military and the Age of 'Perception Management'," Common Dreams, December 2, 2005.
• Lolita C. Baldor, "Pentagon to brief senators on propaganda program," Associated Press (Seattle Times), December 2, 2005.
• "Update 4: Military Explains News Propaganda in Iraq," Associated Press (Forbes.com), December 2, 2005.
• "Sparse coverage of Iraq-aganda-gate," News Hounds, December 2, 2005.
• Editorial: "All the News That's Fit to Plant," Denver Post, December 2, 2005.
• "What's Lincoln Group?", GovExec.com, December 2, 2005.
• Eric Schmitt and David Cloud, "Senate Summons Pentagon to Explain Effort to Plant News Stories in Iraqi Media", New York Times, December 2, 2005.
• Walter Jajko, "It's propaganda time," Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2005.
• Paul McLeary, "When Spooks Were Reporters and Reporters Were Spooks," CJR Daily, December 2, 2005.
• Jason Vest, "And Now, the Fake News From Iraq. Our top 10 suggested headlines for the Pentagon's new, new journalism," Village Voice, December 2, 2005.
• Lincoln Group, "Truth in Reporting", Media Release, December 2, 2005.
• U.S. Senator John Warner, "Transcript: Sen. John Warner's Press Conference on Iraqi Media", Washington Post, December 2, 2005.
• Erica Iacono, "US military's placement of paid stories draws debate", PR Week, December 2, 2005. (Sub req'd).
• David Stout, "Senate Panel Will Investigate Paid Articles in Iraq," New York Times, December 2, 2005.
• Mark Mazzetti, "Planted stories scandal sets off furore," The Age, December 3, 2005.
• David Isenberg, "It's propaganda (shock, horror)!" Asia Times, December 3, 2005.
• Mark Mazzetti, "Secret Program May Have Erred, Pentagon Says: Officials say they'll look into any violations in placement of pro-U.S. articles in Iraqi papers", Los Angeles Times, December 3, 2005.
• Eric Schmitt, "Military Admits Planting News in Iraq", New York Times, December 3, 2005.
• Chris Wallace, "Transcript: National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley" FOX News Sunday, December 4, 2005.
• "Bush disturbed by paying of Iraqi newspapers", USA Today, December 4, 2005.
• Les Payne, "Truth is First Casualty of War Reporting," Newsday (Common Dreams), December 4, 2005.
• Transcript: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's Remarks to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, December 5, 2005: re "fake news": "That's an allegation. I don't know if it's true yet. That story has been pounded in the media, it's very attractive for the media because it's about the media and they like that."
• William Fisher, "The Unintended Consequences of Fake News," Common Dreams, December 5, 2005.
• William Fisher, "Will Pay For Good News," Tom Paine, December 5, 2005.
• Peter Preston, "Propaganda and Bribery. The Bush Administration Will Pay Both at Home and in Iraq for Buying Puff Pieces in the Media," Guardian (UK) (Common Dreams), December 5, 2005.
• Christopher Hitchens, "Secrets and Lies: The DoD's disgraceful plot to plant rosy stories in the Iraqi press", Slate, December 5, 2005.
• Syed Saleem Shahzad, "Media wars: Weapons of choice," Asia Times, December 7, 2005.
• Julia Baird, "Just a Change of Masters for Iraq Press," Sydney Morning Herald (Common Dreams), December 7, 2005.
• Jeff Gerth, "Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive," New York Times, December 11, 2005.
• Sarah Baxter, "Oxford socialite linked to Iraq propaganda row," Sunday Times, December 11, 2005.
• Jonathan Alter, "The Real Price of Propaganda. Exporting a bunch of budding Jayson Blairs simply feeds the unhelpful image of Americans as inept and hypocritical puppetmasters," Newsweek, December 12, 2005 (issue).
• Chris Lehmann, "Rumsfeld Guns for the Press While the Lincoln Group Spins," New York Observer, December 12, 2005 (issue).
• Joe Conason, "Don’t Like the News? Then Buy Your Own!" New York Observer, December 12, 2005 (issue).
• Chris Lehmann, "Rumsfeld Guns for the Press While the Lincoln Group Spins," New York Observer, December 12, 2005.
• "Inside the Public Relations Blitz to Sell Iraq War Overseas. Strength of Iraqi Forces Promoted by Influential P.R. Firm, Document Shows," ABC News, December 14, 2005.
• Matt Kelley, "Pentagon rolls out stealth PR. $300M effort aims to spread pro-U.S. messages in foreign media," USA Today, December 14, 2005: "The three companies handling the campaign include the Lincoln Group, the company being investigated by the Pentagon for paying Iraqi newspapers to run pro-U.S. stories. ... Military officials involved with the campaign say they're not planning to place false stories in foreign news outlets clandestinely. But the military won't always reveal its role in distributing pro-American messages."
• Jamie Wilson and Julian Borger, "Iraq intelligence wrong - but I was right to take us to war, Bush insists," Guardian (UK), December 15, 2005: "Among the companies to have been awarded a contract is the Lincoln Group, a firm set up in Washington two years ago and run by a Briton, Christian Bailey. Military chiefs are currently investigating the programme and the reported payment of Iraqi journalists and newspapers to run pro-American stories."
• Mark Mazzetti and Kevin Sack"Planted PR Stories Not News to Military. U.S. officials in Iraq knew that a contractor was paying local papers. Discretion was the key," Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2005.
• "News Briefing with PDASD for Public Affairs Lawrence Di Rita and Lt. Gen. James Conway," U.S. Department of Defense News Transcript, December 22, 2005.
• Charles R. Babcock, "Young Firm Finds a Bonanza in Middle East," Washington Post, December 23, 2005.
• Gordon Lubold and William Matthews, "News-planting firm has millions in contracts," ArmyTimes, December 23, 2005.
• Patrick Foster and Tim Reid, "Godalming geek made millions running the Pentagon's propaganda war," Times (UK) Online, December 24, 2005.

2006

• "Buy and Buy: Source in Iraq Payola Story Was Getting Some Himself," Editor & Publisher, January 1, 2006.
• David S. Cloud and Jeff Gerth, "Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda," New York Times, January 2, 2006.
• "US firm enlisted aid of Iraq Sunni scholars-NYT," Reuters, January 2, 2006.
• Robert Dreyfuss, "The Neocon Brotherhood," uruknet, January 3, 2006.
• Bill Roggio, "Embedded Bias? Why doesn’t the Washington Post correct some simple facts?" National Review Online, January 3, 2006.
• Justin Raimondo, "'Good News' From Iraq. We're losing the war – but don't worry, the neocons are making the bucks...," Antiwar.com, January 4, 2006.
• Michael Rubin, "A Story Fizzled, but in It, a Media 101 Lesson," National Review Online (American Enterprise Institute), January 5, 2006.
• Ron Brynaert, "Washington Post ombud says paper will answer complaints about putting blogger in propaganda story," The Raw Story, January 5, 2006.
• Helen Thomas, "U.S. puts Sunni clerics on the payroll," Hearst Newspapers (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), January 6, 2006.
• Andrew Buncombe, "So, who is Christian Bailey?" The Hamilton Spectator, January 7, 2006.
• Charles A. Krohn, "Paying Foreign Media Makes Sense," The Baltimore Sun (cantonrep.com), January 7, 2006.
• Justin Fox, "Secret No More. Inside the Pentagon's Iraqi PR firm," Fortune (Money.CNN.com), January 20, 2006.
• Keith O'Brien, "Lincoln Group answers critics with Dixon hire", PR Week, January 27, 2006. (Sub req'd).
• "Interview: Bill Dixon: Director of media relations, Lincoln Group", PR Week, January 27, 2006.(Sub req'd).
• John Byrne, "Contract for global propaganda campaign has few safeguards, document shows," The Raw Story, January 31, 2006.
• David S. Cloud, "Quick Rise for Purveyors of Propaganda in Iraq", New York Times, February 15, 2006.
• Mark Mazzetti, "Propaganda Effort in Iraq a Mistake, Rumsfeld Says: The Defense secretary says he ordered the planting of articles to stop after learning of it, although others have said the effort continues", Los Angeles Times, February 18, 2006.
• "They all knew it’s an illegal war," Al Jazeera, February 22, 2006.
• "U.S. war propaganda carries on," Al Jazeera, February 23, 2006.
• Mark Mazzetti, Military Will Keep Planting Articles in Iraq: The ranking U.S. general there says a Pentagon review found the program does not violate policy. It could be replicated elsewhere, Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2006.
• "Lincoln Group Gives Pakistan Boost", O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), March 9, 2006.
• "Pakistan providing best investment opportunities: foreign firm," Pakistan Link, March 9, 2006.
• Fariba Nawa, "Pink 'iPods' for Democracy!" CorpWatch, March 15, 2006. See sidebar "The Information War."
• "Military Inquiry: Buying Pro-American Stories in Iraqi Press Gets OK," Editor & Publisher, March 22, 2006.
• Thom Shanker, "No Breach Seen in Work in Iraq on Propaganda," New York Times, March 22, 2006.
• John B. Dwyer, "The NYT Misinforms On Pentagon Psyops," The American Thinker, March 22, 2006.
• Lynne Duke, "The Word at War: Propaganda? Nah, Here's the Scoop, Say the Guys Who Planted Stories in Iraqi Papers," Washington Post, March 26, 2006.
• Molly Ivins, "The White House that Cried Wolf," TruthDig (Common Dreams), March 28, 2006: "While I think this is the best Pentagon-investigating-itself case of the week, I have to admit it’s like the Oscars—these investigations are so hard to compare to comedy and tragedy, documentary and animated shorts."
• Andrew Buncombem, "The US propaganda machine: Oh, what a lovely war" Belfast Telegraph, March 30, 2006.
• Edward Wasserman, "All the propaganda that's fit to print", Centre Daily Times, April 3, 2006.
• Daniel Schulman, "Mind Games", Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2006.
• "Lincoln Loses Some Staff", O'Dwyers PR Daily, May 2, 2006. (Sub req'd.)
• David S. Cloud, "U.S. Urged to Stop Paying Iraqi Reporters," New York Times, May 24, 2006.
• Griff Witte, "Lincoln Group Out of Military PR Contract: TV, Radio Deal Unrelated to Controversy Over Reports in Iraqi Papers, Pentagon Says", Washington Post , July 19, 2006; Page D03.
• Interview: "'I Was a Propaganda Intern in Iraq' : Fmr. Lincoln Group Intern Describes Paying Iraqi Press to Plant Pro-American Articles Secretly Written by U.S. Military," Democracy Now!, August 21, 2006.
• "Fighting the Public Relations War," Huntington News by permission from O'Dwyer's Public Relations News, August 29, 2006.
• Walter Pincus, "Positive Press on Iraq Is Aim of U.S. Contract. U.S. Force in Iraq Reviews PR Contract," Washington Post, August 31, 2006.
• Joseph J. Honick, Commentary: "Failed Government Bribed Flacks and Journalists Exposed," Huntington News, September 10, 2006.
• DeWayne Wickham, "Journalists found on government payroll after Bush said he stopped practice," Gannett News Service (Muskogee Phoenix), September 18, 2006.
• Willem Marx, "I Was A PR Intern in Iraq," Harper's (AlterNet), September 18, 2006.
• David Robertson, "Governments turn to private firms," Infoshop News, September 19, 2006.
• Andy Kopsa, "The Lincoln Group," Blogger News Network, September 20, 2006.
• "Lincoln Lands $6M+ Iraq PR Contract," O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), September 26, 2006.
• Ted McKenna, "Lincoln Group Wins $6.2M Iraq PR Contract," PR Week (sub req'd), September 26, 2006.
• "P.R. Group That Paid Off Iraqi Papers Gets New $6.2 Million Media Contract," Associated Press (Editor & Publisher), September 26, 2006.
• Chrish, "Firm affiliated with FOX military analyst Bill Cowan gets 62 million dollar contract with US Military," News Hounds, September 27, 2006.
• "US 'propaganda' row firm in Iraq deal," Aljazeera.net, September 27, 2006.
• Bill Berkowitz, "Lincoln Group: Unethical weapon of mass deception:", Media Transparency, November 16, 2006.

2007

• Dahr Jamail, "Another Casualty: Coverage of the War in Iraq," Foreign Policy in Focus (Little Brother Forum), March 23, 2007.
• Jim Lobe, "Pentagon Moved to Fix Iraqi Media Before Invasion," Inter Press Service (The Raw Story), May 9, 2007.
• richardbk8, "Bloggers Protest CENTCOM Truth Squad," The Sentry News Digest/AOL Journals, June 1, 2007.
• Ken Silverstein, "How the Pentagon’s 'Surrogates Operation' Feeds Stories to Administration-Friendly Media and Pundits," Harper's Magazine, July 19, 2007.
• Karen DeYoung, "The Pentagon Gets a Lesson From Madison Avenue. U.S. Needs to Devise a Different 'Brand' to Win Over the Iraqi People, Study Advises," Washington Post, July 21, 2007.
• Ted McKenna, "Comms pros consult on US military report," PRWeek, July 30, 2007.
• Bob Burton, "Military Takes Aim at U.S. Propaganda Ban," PR Watch, July 30, 2007.
• Stan Goff, "The Fog of Fame: Pat Tillman as everyone’s political football," Insurgent American, August 5, 2007.
• "Lincoln Group Producing DoD-Funded ISF Comics. Arabic Comic Book Series Depicts Iraqi Security Forces as Anti-Terror Heroes," Iraq Slogger, August 7, 2007.

2008

• Press release, "ASRC Federal Holding Company Holds 1st Annual Charity Golf Event for Local Charity," ASRC Federal, June 17, 2008. (Lincoln Group co-sponsored the event.)