O'Dwyers PR Daily reports that Bill Dixon [3] and Laurie Adler [4], who handled PR for the Lincoln Group [5] which gained notoriety for using Pentagon funds to plant news articles in Iraqi newspapers, have jumped ship. Dixon only started with the company in January while Adler served as the company's main spokesman. In the Columbia Journalism Review Daniel Schulman reports [6] that a U.S. army officer, who helped select the company for contracts in Iraq, was scathing in his assessment of their work. "They were sending guys over there that had absolutely no knowledge of Iraqis whatsoever. ... It was a scheme written up on a cocktail napkin in D.C. They were just completely inept," the officer said.