Enver Masud, "Millions Spent
Subverting 'Enemies,' Stifling Dissent," The Wisdom Fund, February
15, 2001
"Disinformation: CIA Posing as Al
Qaeda?," LibertyForum, August 8, 2003
[Alexander Feldman, the head of the department's International Information
Programs bureau, which runs the speakers program, sent a memo to his
employees warning that "no one is to speak to the press without following
the procedures" and getting approval. . . .
The effort, known as the "U.S. Speakers/Specialist Program," is part of a
public diplomacy effort to change negative foreign opinions of the United
States. It's overseen by Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes--Warren
Strobel and Jonathan Landay, "State
Department checks citizen representatives' political views,"
Knight Ridder Newspapers, December 3, 2005]
Rafia Zakaria, "The
Great Pretenders Of The 'Secular Islam' Conference," altmuslim.com, March 9, 2007
[Instead of championing the loud voices of the secular minority who are
capturing media attention with their conferences, manifestos and memoirs,
the United States would be wise instead to pay more attention to the far
less loquacious majority.--Geneive Abdo, "A More Islamic Islam," Washington Post,
March 17, 2007]