Media & Communications Strategies President, Scott Sobel, commented on the corporate crisis surrounding the release of classified documents detailing a pervasive data-mining program by the National Security Agency (NSA). An employee of Booz Allen sent the documents to The Washington Post and created the firestorm of controversy surrounding the relatively unknown operation. Scott talks about the effect of the scandal on Booz Allen’s reputation in this Bloomberg Businessweek article:

“It strikes right at the heart of credibility and security for a company like Booz Allen,” said Scott Sobel, president of Media & Communications Strategies Inc., a public relations firm in Washington.

“If they can’t represent to government and other clients that their employees are properly vetted and secure, their business and credibility certainly will take a huge hit. They have to be scrambling right now.”

To read the full article on Businessweek.com, click here.

Scott Sobel is President of Media & Communications Strategies, Inc., a Washington, DC-based public relations firm that manages reputation and communications challenges of all kinds worldwide. www.macstrategies.com. He is also a former corporate public relations practitioner and major market and TV network investigative journalist with a Media Psychology MA from Touro University Worldwide www.TUW.edu.