[Karen]Hughes [Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy]: Still Reaching Out to Radicals

Beliefnet (via Little Green Footballs) ^

[PurpleMan]

Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy is going to be the speaker this weekend at a Texas Muslim Scholarship Fund banquet in the Dallas area. The fund, and banquet, are sponsored by the Texas-based Freedom & Justice Foundation, which is run by Mohamed Elibiary." "...Elibiary was one of the speakers at the local event billed as a "Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary, the Ayatollah Khomeini" a few years back here in town."

[PurpleMan]

This woman is clueless. (Someone once said a "vapid idiot." Excellent.

Let's get this right. She LEADS the US's strategic communications?

UNBELIEVABLE

[gondramB]

Surely they have a background check for an organization before they send an Under Secretary there.

[PurpleMan]

This is the State Department

...and stop calling me Shirely.

[The Lumster]

This woman is clueless

She's not making these decisions in a vacuum. This is official U.S. policy. I agree they are bone headed decisions but she is carrying out policy for G.W. Bush

[PurpleMan]

From her body of work in State, she is clueless.