These contracts involved Blackwater "tactical operations operatives" conducting covert raids into Pakistan against suspected al Qaeda training camps.
The assemblymen, Mims Hackett Jr., 65, of Essex County, and Alfred E. Steele, 53, of Passaic County, will step down four days after they and others were rounded up and accused of taking thousands of dollars in bribes for promises to steer government contracts to undercover operatives posing as insurance brokers.
The Highways Agency defined the pathfinder project as involving "a new form of contract and co-operative working methods to deliver a better value project, faster".
The two are among 11 current or former public officials accused of taking thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for promising to channel government contracts to undercover federal operatives pretending to be insurance brokers.
The internal report that Dr. Meselson is seeking was done by a former covert operative and contract historian, and examined how the intelligence community came up with its finding that "yellow rain" was a chemical weapon.
Several years ago he contracted a post-operative infection and to save his life the doctors pumped him full of antibiotics that devastated his inner ear, wrecked his sense of balance and affected his eyesight in a way he struggles to explain.
In their analysis, Bakshi and Kleindorfer (2009) established the superiority of co-opetition over competition in relation to managing supply chain security because co-operative contracts lead to investments being made in terms of security, in contrast with non-co-operative agreements.
Eriksson (2008), on analysing the Swedish construction industry, recognised that, because of the lack of confidence in co-operative action among contract partners, there is difficulty in applying co-opetition models.
Sean Noble, a Republican political operative who was on contract to the Kochs, later acknowledged, "We packed these town halls with people who were just screaming about this thing".
At the same time, they say, the contract discouraged Mr. Reed, a prominent operative who was being courted by several other campaigns, from backing anyone other than Mr. Bush.
