With guidance from a court-appointed external task force, executives in the North America group got involved in recruitment and mentoring initiatives for professionals and middle managers, working specifically toward measurable goals for minorities.
They also fault the task force's executive director, Bruce Topman, for hiring Dr. Brigham without first consulting members of the task force's advisory committee.
With its defeat, President Obama said in his State of the Union address on Wednesday night that he would establish a debt-reduction task force by executive order.
The center's president, Philip Zelikow, a former White House official who is close to Bush administration officials, is the task force's executive director.
Sarah Lansdale, a member of the task force and executive director of Sustainable Long Island, a group in Bethpage that promotes the redevelopment of downtowns, said that the availability of sewers made a difference in downtown areas.
In March, Trump announced the creation of the task force by executive order, giving members-to-be 90 days to develop initial recommendations for dealing with the massive drug epidemic, and a due date of October 1 for its final report.
Some Chinese snipers and infiltrators even managed to reach Task Force Wilson's command post, resulting in the death of the task force's executive officer.
The company said an internal task force of executives who were not involved in the study would investigate.
For months, top administration officials have spurned a demand by the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, for records of meetings of Vice President Dick Cheney and the administration's energy task force with executives from Enron and other energy companies.
