out baseballs all over town." Wilkinson, who has run marathons, has been described as hyperactive and media-savvy. As of 2010, Wilkinson was working as Managing Partner of Brunswick Group LLP, a public relations firm. Jim Wilkinson was listed on PRWeek'''s list of the most powerful 50 communicators in the world. He played a role in Alibaba's IPO. Bush Administration Wilkinson was head of the "war room", or Coalition Information Center for the Afghanistan War. He highlighted efforts to improve living conditions for Afghan women. In public relations preparations for 2003 invasion of Iraq, Wilkinson was part of the White House Iraq Group under Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. The goal of the group was to "get the country on the page that the White House wanted everybody to believe: that Iraq, with its weapons of mass destruction, was an imminent threat to the United States". For the Iraq war, Wilkinson was the chief spokesman for Gen. Tommy Franks under CENTCOM in Doha. Many reporters were unhappy in Doha, and the atmosphere was tense; Ben Smith of The New York Observer mentioned three theories on the source of the tension: that stationed reporters were jealous of their embedded colleagues, that Wilkinson helped execute an operation that controlled the information well, or that Wilkinson was inept. Ron Suskind, writing in The Washington Post, called Wilkinson the "spinmeister for the Iraq war". When Wilkinson faced questions from reporters he found lacking in support for the Iraq War, he would rebuke them. Jessica Lynch In original editions of the book Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, Wilkinson was described as a "master propagandist". The book stated that Wilkinson concocted details regarding the Jessica Lynch story and "arranged to give the Washington Post exclusive access to classified intelligence that was the basis for the now-discredited 'She Was Fighting to the Death' story that ran on the front page of the newspaper" on April 3, 2003. When interviewed by the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Wilkinson said that he did not know the identity of the "U.S. officials" cited in the April 3 story. Wilkinson could not explain why erroneous news reports emerged about Private Lynch's capture and rescue. The congressional report, titled Misleading Information from the Battlefield: The Tillman and Lynch Episodes states that, "As the Committee investigated the Tillman and Lynch cases, it encountered a striking lack