Declan Ganley's Rivada Pacific contracts from US Defence Dept and Homeland Security

Libertas's early days were funded by Rivada Networks who employed key staff to work on setting up the Libertas brand . Ganley later denied this but he was contradicted by Naosie Nunn founder of Libertas. see
Libertas Limited from way back machine
Rivada networks key personel

Libertas executive director is Rivada employee

Plus Irish Election Blog
The faux party of transparency, Libertas's leader's contracts from George W Bush and the US military war machine since 2004 should be known to all the people who think Declan Ganley loves Democracy and not warmongering.

See over 40 US DEFENCE DEPT. CONTRACTS THAT DECLAN'S GANLEY COMPANY RIVADA PACIFIC HAVE RECEIVED SINCE 2004.

Fed Contracts awarded without competition to DECLAN GANLEY's RIVADA PACIFIC

Links Nana Pacific Ganley's Partner firm
Rivada Networks the warmonger Declan Ganley's flagship a Ganley International company.

See also Ganley in Iraq

Nana Pacific US Defence contract trends

Note that the Obama government does not favour Ganley's allies. There is in fact an anti Obama smear which is being perpetuated by people supporting Ganley's Iraq pal Jack Shaw. Indeed Shaw appeared on ABC prior to the election to smear Obama

Trend

2000	$0
2001	$0
2002	$0
2003	$0
2004	$343,000
2005	$10,010,979
2006	$16,199,933
2007	$8,722,759
2008 1Q *	$1,964,127

Is the reason ganley is trying to move into Europe the fact that the US are not so hot on his cosy relationship with republican war mongers who tried to stop Barack Obama from being elected?

The above from Libertas the Pan European Political party Blog http://libertaseu.blogspot.com/

The below is about later convicted of corruption Alaskan Sen.Ted Steven's and Ganley's later partners Nana Pacific using the Iraq War to gain financially. Jack Shaw later connected Declan ganley with Nana when he failed to get in on the war action with a mobile phone bid that has been the subject of much copntroversy,

Contracts Take Alaska to Iraq

By T. Christian Miller
March 07, 2004

LA Times

Snow-covered Alaska is a long way from the deserts of Iraq, but that doesn't worry Janet Reiser, the president of an Anchorage-based company planning to help rebuild the war-torn country.

Because of the efforts of Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska Native-owned businesses like Reiser's are allowed to receive government contracts of unlimited size without going through the normal bidding process. Pentagon officials are turning to them to speed up the rebuilding of Iraq.

"If you exchange snow for sand, work in Iraq is similar to the work we've done in Alaska," said Reiser, whose Nana Pacific engineering company is in the final stages of negotiating a multimillion-dollar contract that will be awarded without competitive bidding. "We know how to do logistics in remote areas."

Over the years, Stevens, the Alaska Republican who is the powerful chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has made sure that Nana Pacific and other small businesses owned by Alaska Native corporations and Native Americans enjoy special benefits in government contracting.

Their unique ability to land government contracts of any size, free of the bidding process -- which no other minority- or women-owned small businesses enjoy -- was a largely unknown part of contracting law until last fall, when Congress passed an $18.6-billion aid package earmarked for Iraqi reconstruction that contained restrictions calling for full and open competition.

Stevens, however, made sure the final bill contained language to protect Alaska Native corporations' ability to win no-bid contracts under federal law, according to Republican and Democratic budget analysts familiar with the process.

At the same time, Alaska Native officials and their lobbyists frequented industry conferences, the Defense Department and Capitol Hill in an effort to drum up Iraq business.

Some Pentagon officials responded by pushing the Alaska Native corporations as a way to quickly get work accomplished without going through the bidding process, which can take months.

Although only a handful of Alaskan and small tribal businesses have sought contracts to date, Pentagon officials said they hoped the number would increase.

Ganley's US military connections could "save " Ireland: Irish Times humour

In light of the recent comments by politicians as diverse as Ireland's Fine Geal MEP Jim Higgins and Jean Marie Le Pen of France's Front Nationale The Irish Times takes a humorous look at the possible advantages of Declan Ganley's US military connections might be to Ireland and if he "commanded" Europe.
The idea that Ireland could become the "Moyther of all Green Zones" with haliburtan and Rivada providing all that enters might well appeal to Ganley. His speciality is capitalism in disaster zones. His attacks on democracy are a deliberate effort to create the illusion that Ganley actually wants democracy. His far right partners across Europe included until recently mebers more comfortable at Polich Youth meeting shouting "Seil Heil" as was recently reported in the Polish media.

Ireland could advance with the help of the US military

NEWTON EMERSON

NEWTON'S OPTIC: FINE GAEL MEP Jim Higgins has accused Libertas founder Declan Ganley, his challenger in June’s European election, of being “a puppet of the US military”. He says that as if it’s a bad thing.

What’s wrong with supporting a puppet of the US military?

It is hardly as if the current political class comes with no strings attached. How often have paramilitary puppets run for office in Ireland, moved by hidden hands both foreign and domestic? How many representatives humoured at least two armies here for years? Is Leinster House not the original home of “Don’t ask, don’t tell?” Was any rendition ever more extraordinary than the Taoiseach’s back-of-a-tractor Sinatra singalong?

The US military has a recession-proof annual budget of $700 billion and 1.4 million active personnel. Only 225,000 are officers, making it 600 per cent more efficient than the Irish public sector. It is customer-focused, target-driven and export-orientated. Clearly, this is exactly the sort of organisation to sort out all of Ireland’s problems.

Union unrest? Call in a surgical strike. Banking crisis? It’s just collateral damage. Public versus private sector? Leave it to the “civilian contractors”. Poverty among the unemployed? Let them eat Mash.

Every tired old dispute in Ireland could do with a little US military shock and awe. Social partnership talks have their uses but when push comes to surge nothing quite beats a laser-guided bomb dropped directly down Liberty Hall’s lift shaft.

The US military traces its origins back to the American Continental Army, set up in 1773 to drive out the British. This could finally explain why Libertas and Sinn Féin appear to be on the same side.

The US military is widely associated with pork-barrel spending, commercial favouritism and invoicing the taxpayer $5,000 for a toilet seat, so it could presumably work with Fianna Fáil as well.

The US military has recently made great progress with pilotless drones so it could even work with Enda Kenny.

All these factors would make the US military an excellent partner in a government of national unity should the present regime ever need to be changed.

From its command headquarters in Dáil Éireann (DAILCOM), this Libertas-led coalition of the willing could transform Ireland into the mother of all green zones.

It is true that some people might have to be put in an orange jumpsuit. However, it is important to remember that there is no danger from water-boarding as long as you don’t use the tap water in Galway.

But it is in the European theatre that June’s electoral battle will take place, and that is where US military backing should prove most useful. Once before the US military fought in Europe only to have to come back and fight pretty much the same war all over again. This is obviously pertinent experience for a second Lisbon Treaty referendum. From its mobile Western front command headquarters in Strasbourg and Brussels (STRASBRUSWESCOM), a Libertas-led alliance for democracy could drive the axis of weasel back over the Rhine.

Of course, the US military is not invulnerable. But Ireland is not Vietnam, no matter how much the North occasionally resembles it. The only real weakness the US military has ever shown is failing to work out an exit strategy. Could we send them Bertie Ahern as a military advisor?

Declan Ganley's US military contracts are the reason for his opposition to Lisbon Treaty - MEP

Jim Higgins has branded Declan Ganley a puppet of the US military. He goes further to say that Ganley's opposition to the Lisbon Treaty was informed solely by his close ties and business contracts with his American military paymasters.

Higgins who Ganley targeted recently, firstly by trying to scare him into silence Ganley threatened to sue the MEP. While Higgins failed to be impressed by Ganley's threats, Ganley , as usual, failed to proceed with his legal action. Ganley is becoming notorious for his threats to sue that are not backed up by legal actions. This has correctly been viewed by may in Ireland as intimidation tactics, as Ganley attempts to use his alledged wealth and therefore his ability to fund legal actions to silence critics.

Higgins in whose constituency Ganley is contesting the European elections in June has been a particular target of Ganley mistruths.


Higgins also asks why Ganley is courting far right politicians in Europe. The Irish Independent has further quotes to the ones used in the Irish Times. See Also

Ganley is branded a 'puppet of US military'

FINE Gael MEP Jim Higgins yesterday launched a furious attack on Libertas leader Declan Ganley -- branding him a "puppet of the US military".

Just one week after Mr Ganley launched his campaign to contest the European elections in the North-West constituency with a verbal attack on Mr Higgins, the veteran politician hit back.

Speaking at the party's selection convention in Sligo yesterday, he welcomed Mr Ganley's decision to enter the race but said he would have to reveal his true agenda.

"The truth is that the United States military are frightened stiff of a united and stronger European Union through the Lisbon Treaty.

"The truth is that Mr Ganley does not want a united Europe. Anything that would get in the way of his multi-million dollar contracts with the US military must be opposed. Hence his opposition to Lisbon. Hence his reason to contest these elections," he said.

He called on the Libertas founder to reveal why he has constantly refused to tell the Standards in Public Office Commission the nature and conditions of his personal loan to the Libertas Lisbon campaign and the involvement of his Rivada Networks staff. Last night Mr Ganley's spokesman John McGuirk hit back saying: "Mr Higgins' comments are not just lies, they are embarrassing lies from an MEP who has for four years done absolutely nothing to justify the salary paid to him by taxpayers.

"Jim can snipe at Declan's record in business, but only one candidate has a record of actually creating any jobs, and that's Declan Ganley."

Explain

Earlier, Mr Higgins added Mr Ganley would also have to explain why "two of the Eastern European politicians who signed his ratification for recognition as a political party have now withdrawn their signatures" and to come clean about the one million Swedish Krona (Correction: It was 10 mil SEK =1 mil euro Libertas Nein Danke) allegedly offered to the euro-sceptical political party Junilistan to add the name of Libertas to its title.

Mr Higgins claimed that its leader had responded by saying that it would be "extremely unethical" for the Swedish party to be funded by a millionaire from another country.

He said the public would also like to know why, after courting and supporting the ultra right wing Catholic LPR party in Poland, Mr Ganley has "suddenly bolted in the opposite direction" this week.

- Anita Guidera

Austrian court gets it wrong in Ganley judgement

Not weapons? Ganley's Rivada Pacific mobile communications equipment allows
troops to deploy in areas and quickly set up communications device that help in the
targeting of people, buildings and the guidance of missles and airstrikes.

Libertas are claiming that an Austrian court has ordered Format magazine to print a retraction of what Libertas call lies. It appears that Format said that Ganley was an arms dealer. Now this blogger is not sure about Ganley selling actual guns but of course that is possible. He claimed in 1995 to own the Kipelovo secret airbase in Russia which according to Ganley had 40 Tupelov Bear F long range anti naval recon planes on the runway. Arms was a big business among nasant oligarchs. The Austrian court obviously has a distorted view of what an arms dealer is in these modern times..

Ganley and his company Rivada Networks do supply the US military with communications equipment which is essential for the operation and deployment of many weapons systems. Communication being such an important part of modern warfare it is impossible to not include communications equipment in the weapons category.

No missiles, no air-stikes, no renditions or torture of prisoners happens without the use by troops of communications devices.

It may have been a technical point but Rivada and Ganley are in the weapons industry, they just happen to supply the communication platforms for troops to use in battle. If you are wondering if communications paltforms are integrated into killing machines just look at "drones" that both spy, communicate and can fire missles. Drones are usless without communications systems.

Here is what Libertas had to say.

Austrian magazine Format prints retraction after publishing lies about Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley

Austrian weekly magazine Format has printed the following retraction:

"Mr Declan J. Ganley doesn’t deal in weapons. He is a businessman, whose company supplies entities such as police, fire, medical, and disaster response personnel with interoperable communications equipment and services. American companies are his clients too."

Libertas is always happy to clarify any inaccurate reporting about its members, and will continue to have lies published about it or its members publicly retracted.

Well I don't think you will be getting any retractions from this bloggger. Ganley is a war monger and a war profiteer. Rivada provide the military with essential equipment which is part of weapons systems and therefore must be categorised as weapons.

Declan Ganley and Libertas fail to answer Irish official body over their funding for Lisbon. SIPO report released

The Irish statutory body that oversees election funding has found that Libertas did not comply with requests for information on the funding of their campaign in Ireland against the Lisbon Treaty. Scandal plagued Ganley and Libertas failed to provide the information required under Irish law. This evasion sheds light on Libertas and Ganley's complete hypocrisy when they demand transparency of others while they will not comply with the laws covering transparency in funding political campaigns.

How can Ganley continue his charade of "politics". His soundbites are all well and good, but he has no record of being democratic or transparent. Indeed the reality of Libertas and ganley proves his complete diregard for his own catch phrases. He is the self appointed leader of a private political party. He is appointing employees to run as candidates. He will not comply withIrish law as regards declarations re funding, he refuses to clarify the truth behind his Anglo Adriatic Investment Fund and his invovlment in the Iraq war. Ganley's Tigris Staffing firm operated in Bagdhad in the months after the 2003 invasion, Ganley has just appointed the man who led that invasion Gen ricahrad Myers to the board of Rivada Networks.. He was also collaborating with Ted Stevens the disgraced Alaksan senator who helped ganley get sweetheart deals from the US military..

As SIPO note the fact that Ganley's Rivada networks defence contracting firm actually employed Libertas staff while they ran Libertas in 2007 and 2008 has not been explained to the office. these staff included David Cochrane owner of the site politics.ie which is a highly popular political chat room moderated by Libertas staff. Ganley also has links to the former UKIP site British democracy forum in the UK. This use of political chatrooms in the run up to their launch has enabled Libertas to test the pulse and attempt to head off the concerns widely expressed about Ganley, his character and his unexplained claimed fortune.
Libertas have as yet not issued policies and according to one source they have postponed launching policies until even later than the promised 25 March.

The Standards Commission wrote to four of the registered third parties
regarding the provision of loans - Libertas, CÓIR, Campaign Against EU
Constitution and Irish Alliance for Europe. These groups were selected on
the basis that they intended to incur expenditure of €10,000 or above at the
referendum. The Irish Alliance for Europe, CÓIR and Campaign Against EU
Constitution informed the Standards Commission that they had not received any
loans to finance their referendum campaigns. Libertas had already informed the
Standards Commission of a loan provided by Mr Declan Ganley. The letter to
Libertas asked whether other loans had been provided to fund the referendum
campaign. At the time of writing this report, and despite a number of written
and telephone reminders to Libertas, it has failed to provide the required
information to the Standards Commission.

Further correspondence
with Libertas
The "responsible person" of Libertas, Mr Naoise Nunn informed
the Standards Commission on 30 September 2008 that he had resigned from Libertas
with effect from 19 September 2008. In addition to furnishing a
Certificate and bank statement in respect of the third party's political
donations account, the responsible person must also ensure that any prohibited
donations which might be received by the third party are returned to the donor
or remitted to the Standards Commission. The Standards Commission wrote,
therefore, to Libertas requesting it to provide details of the person who had
replaced Mr Nunn as responsible person for Libertas. At the time of
writing this report, Libertas has not provided this information to the Standards
Commission.

Referendum campaign funding by Libertas
Following
media reports, the Standards Commission decided to make certain enquiries with
Libertas in order to ensure that it complied with its obligations under the Act
regarding the opening and maintenance of a political donations account and the
non-acceptance of prohibited donations. In that regard the Standards
Commission made the following enquiries with
Libertas:

a) Employees of Rivada
Networks Ltd
It was suggested that persons employed by Rivada may have been
paid by that company while working for Libertas on its referendum
campaign. If this was the case it could be regarded as a donation to
Libertas from Rivada. If the total value of the services provided exceeded
€6,348.69 in any year, Libertas would be required to refund the excess donation
to Rivada.

Libertas confirmed that Rivada employees "who worked on
the Libertas project did so in their spare time and on a voluntary
basis."

On 11 September 2008 the Standards Commission asked
Libertas to provide further details of the employees who worked on the
referendum campaign. At the time of writing this report, Libertas has not
provided this information to the Standards
Commission.

b) Use of "The Lisbon
Treaty: the Readable
Version"
The Standards
Commission was aware that Libertas had distributed a book - "The Lisbon Treaty:
the Readable Version" - as part of its referendum campaign. It was
reported that the book "sells for €20" and that 35,000 copies of the book had
been given to Libertas by another organisation, the Foundation for European
Democracy. A donation is defined in the Act as a contribution given for
political purposes. This includes the free or below cost provision of
goods, property or services. If the books were given for the purpose of
assisting Libertas in its referendum campaign and if the total value of the
books provided to Libertas exceeded €6,348.69 in any year, Libertas would be
required to refund the excess donation to the Foundation for European
Democracy. The Standards Commission requested Libertas to clarify the
position with regard to the use of these books, whether they were provided free
or below commercial cost, and querying why the provision of these books should
not be regarded as a donation to
Libertas.

On 13
August 2008 Libertas confirmed that it had received a number of copies of this
book from "the EU Democrats". Libertas stated that the books did not
contain any political messaging and that they were distributed free of
charge. The Standards Commission considered that this response was not
entirely relevant in determining whether provision of the books constituted a
donation to Libertas. The Standards Commission wrote again to Libertas
advising it that if the books were provided free of charge (where a charge
normally applies) and were given for the purposes of seeking to influence the
outcome of the referendum it would be regarded as a donation to Libertas.
Libertas was asked for its further comments as to why the provision of these
books should not be regarded as a donation. At the time of writing this report,
Libertas has still not provided any further comments on this matter to the
Standards Commission.

read full report here
c)
Loans provided to Libertas

The Standards Commission's position on the issuing and repayment of loans is set
out in Part 4 of its guidelines for political parties (published in December
2006). The same position applies to loans to third parties. The
guidelines state that where an individual or body, who or which is not a
financial institution, gives a loan to a person who is covered by the Act, it
must be evident that the loan offered is a bona fide loan and that the interest
chargeable on the loan reflects interest charged by financial institutions on
loans of similar amount and duration. The Standards Commission wrote to
Libertas on 19 June 2008 requesting details of any loans provided to it from a
financial institution or other person for the purposes of funding its referendum
campaign.

Mr
Ganley replied on 13 August 2008 confirming that Libertas had received a
personal loan from him "in respect of which a detailed legal agreement and
repayment plan in accordance with commercial lending norms" had been
agreed. In its guidelines for political parties the Standards Commission
advises that it may require sight of the terms and conditions, including the
interest charge, applying to a loan provided by a person who or which is not a
financial institution. The Standards Commission wrote to Mr Ganley on 22
August and requested a copy of the legal agreement and repayment plan for the
loan made to
Libertas.

In spite
of subsequent correspondence with Mr Ganley and his legal representatives, the
information requested by the Standards Commission has not been provided by
Libertas at the time of writing this report.

Ganley denies 1 million offer to Swedish party despite McGuirk statement,

Declan Ganley on left indulges his love of all things military

Ganley denies the fact that Libertas made an offer to Swedish party Junilistan. This despite the fact that John McGurik of Libertas Ireland and one of defence contactor Ganley's puppet boys admitted on Newstalk 106 that Libertas had discussed cash and that a figure around 1 million could have been discussed. Here

Rivada Pacific war gear on try out during Katrina in New Orleans.

de Villiers’s and Mr Nihous’s also deny recieving cash.
Lara Marlowe in Paris gives us a refreshing insight into General Ganley's crusade from Libertas' Paris press conference.

Cedar Lounge gives a refreshing take on Ganley's "crank's alliance" here

Thursday, March 12, 2009
Irish Times

Right-wing parties rally under Libertas banner

LARA MARLOWE in Paris

JOY IS not an emotion one usually associates with Viscount Philippe de Villiers, the right-wing French politician who has built his career on fear-mongering over the influx of Muslim immigrants and opposition to what he calls the “oligarchs and commissars” of Brussels.

But “joy” was the word Mr de Villiers used to describe the launching of a joint European parliamentary election campaign uniting his Movement for France (MPF) and Frédéric Nihous’s Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Tradition (CPNT) party under the Libertas.eu banner yesterday.

Libertas founder Declan Ganley, whom Mr de Villiers called “our hero”, proudly watched over the ceremony.

Mr de Villiers delivered a romantic version of Mr Ganley’s alleged heroism. “They fobbed a repeat of the constitution on us, and one man rose up, an Irish businessman who won the support of the people.”

Mr de Villiers’s tone veered into sarcasm, his speciality. The good people of Ireland were in for a surprise, he said. “When people vote No, they must be forced to vote again.”

Hence the importance of June’s European elections. Since 26 EU countries were deprived of a vote on Lisbon, “this European election must replace the referendum people didn’t have”.

Mr de Villiers mingled grievances against Europe and President Nicolas Sarkozy. Europe “must draw its borders, once and for all, without Turkey”, he said. He complained that Mr Sarkozy has allowed negotiations on Turkish accession to proceed on 10 of 35 chapters. And Mr Sarkozy did away with a constitutional provision requiring a French referendum on Turkish accession.

Then it was time for a tirade against “the crazy madmen who continue stealing people’s identity and traditions”. Europe was preparing regulations that would make rosé wine by mixing red and white, Mr de Villiers claimed. And Europe wanted to impose health warnings on camembert cheese! Standing beside Mr Ganley, champion of free markets, Mr de Villiers the protectionist pleaded for “European preference, so that Europe can fight outsourcing and the transfer of our means of production to China”.

Still standing beside Mr Ganley, the defence contractor who has just named four former senior defence officials from the US and Britain to the board of his company, Mr de Villiers condemned Mr Sarkozy’s announcement yesterday that he is bringing France back into the integrated military command of Nato. “The return to Nato is the end of the independence of France. It is the end of the very idea of European defence.”

Mr Ganley took the floor, calling France “the beating heart of Europe”. But where Mr de Villiers voiced grievances, Mr Ganley incited them.

If the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, he said, there will never be another referendum.

“The small little bit of power you have will be taken away from you!” Mr Ganley harangued the small crowd of journalists as if they were supporters at a rally. “These elites in Brussels have silenced the French people. They ignored you completely! They point at the people of France and the Netherlands and Ireland and they say, ‘There is something wrong with you. You are ignorant. You are not European.’”

It was time for people to “tell the elites in Brussels, ‘No. There is something wrong with you.’”

Paul-Marie Coûteaux, one of three MEPs elected on Mr de Villiers’s list five years ago, created a storm by denouncing the party’s alliance with Mr Ganley on the eve of the launch.

Mr Coûteaux accused Mr Ganley of supporting the election of a president of Europe by universal suffrage, Turkish accession to the EU and Nato membership for all European states.

Mr Ganley confounded several sources who had the strong impression that he supported Turkey’s EU application and Nato.

“I completely agree on Turkey,” he said. “On the matter of Nato, this is a decision that must be made at member-state level. Ireland is neutral.”

(In an article he published in the US in 2003, Mr Ganley attacked the constitutional treaty on the grounds it would damage the traditional defence relationship between Europe and the US.)

So how much was Libertas contributing to Mr de Villiers’s and Mr Nihous’s European campaigns? “Not one centime!” he protested, denouncing “unhealthy, malignant rumours” and “calumny”. “Not a sou!” added Mr Nihous. When I asked Mr Ganley whether Libertas had offered Swedish party Junilistan €900,000 to campaign under his party’s name, he answered with a sharp “No” and walked away.

Irish papers pick up on Ganley's military appointments to Rivada

The Irish Independent has an article in today's paper about Ganley and his recruiting top military men for Rivada.

Libertas chief Ganley brings former military chiefs on board

By MICHAEL BRENNAN

Tuesday March 10 2009

LIBERTAS founder Declan Ganley has appointed four defence industry heavy- hitters to the board of his company.

The new additions to the board of Rivada Networks include General Richard Myers, a former chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff during the invasion of Iraq, and Lord Charles Guthrie, a former chief of the defence staff in Britain.

The other two -- Michael Jackson and George Forseman -- previously were senior officials with the US Department of Homeland Security.

Rivada Networks provides communications systems to the military, police and emergency services in disaster situations and has secured US military contracts worth up to $240m (€190m).

Mr Ganley has said he will quit his role as chief executive of Rivada Networks, his communications technology company, to concentrate on campaigning in the European elections.

He is expected to declare next week that he will run in the North West constituency under the Libertas banner.

Speaking yesterday about the appointments, Fine Gael European Affairs spokeswoman Lucinda Creighton said: "It further underlines the business interest he has in the US military, and the obvious link between his views on the Lisbon Treaty and the future integration of the European Union, and his personal interest in making that happen."

Threatened

During the Lisbon Treaty campaign last year, Ms Creighton claimed that Mr Ganley's opposition to the treaty was partly based on his connections with the US military -- who felt threatened by the concept of a stronger EU common defence policy.

A spokesman for Rivada Networks said: "All four of them have hugely long and distinguished careers in public service in terms of saving lives. Rivada is in the business of helping people in the military and police to save lives in disaster situations."

Lord Guthrie, who served in the SAS, was described as Tony Blair's most trusted military commander when he was Chief of the Defence Staff in Britain between 1997 and 2001.

General Myers was the highest-ranking military officer in the US under former president George Bush from 2001 to 2005 and presided over the US invasion of Iraq.

Mr Jackson is a former deputy secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, and Mr Forseman was the department's under-secretary for Preparedness until 2007.

The spokesman said that contrary to Ms Creighton's claims, Mr Ganley wanted a strong, united and democratic Europe that worked in partnership with the US.

"In terms of her constant attempts to throw mud, I think it shows an inability to debate the issues," he said.

He said Mr Ganley would be playing a far less active role in Rivada as chairman, rather than as chief executive currently.

- MICHAEL BRENNAN

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