In 2003 the then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was memorably quoted as advising President Bush to "punish France, ignore Germany and forgive Russia".
It is also investigating more than 200 UK accountants, lawyers and other professional advisers named in the data as advising the wealthy on setting up the elaborate offshore tax arrangements.
No surprise, then, that as well as advising Kazakhstan, Blair also advises JP Morgan.
As well as advising clients privately, she has a growing project portfolio as a consultant dietitian.
seeking to play a role in provision of services in potentially sensitive areas, such as advising on sexual health.
Richard Petty, the sport's most enduring icon of victory and decency, is quoted as advising drivers to "cheat neat".
Especially in America and Britain, booming capital markets tempted strategy consultants to take on investment bankers in areas such as advising on mergers and acquisitions.
As well as advising on counter-insurgency tactics, they have helped with an array of non-military activities, from overseeing elections to preserving monuments and digging sewers.
On Sunday, one Russian official was reported by the Interfax news agency as advising Russians to withdraw funds from Cyprus, saying the banking system was untrustworthy.
It does so both in narrowly targeted ways, such as advising the White House, and in scattershot ways, such as posting its course materials on the internet.
The panel report her as advising that "it is scientifically unproven whether anabolic steroids do in fact enhance equine performance; the research simply has not been done".
