While human rights groups denounce the Sudanese government's "condoning of the action of a violent militia [3] which is raping and killing innocent women, men and children and pillaging villages in Darfur [4]," a U.S. firm is lobbying for Sudan [5]. Representative Frank Wolf said he was "shocked" that the State Department [6] granted C/R International [7] a waiver "from an order barring U.S. companies from doing business with Sudan." Rep. Wolf wrote Secretary of State Rice [8] that the waiver "conflicted with the administration's push ... to tighten sanctions" on Sudan. Sudan hired C/R, at $530,000 per year, "to promote the country's north/south peace agreement, and highlight Sudan's role in fighting terror," reported O'Dwyer's PR Daily [9]. C/R head Robert Cabelly is "a former Fleishman-Hillard [10] and State Dept. official who has repped Angola [11], Equatorial Guinea [12], Ethiopia [11] and the South Africa Foundation [13]." Rep. Wolf also criticized Patton Boggs [14] for "trying to polish the image of Saudi Arabia [15]" and Akin, Gump [16] for "trying to assist China in buying a U.S. oil company [17]."