"It's Who? You Know."

The article by Al Kamen in The Washington Post, October 30, 2006.

"State Department career diplomats are in an uproar over the recent appointment of a mid-level civil servant who worked for Undersecretary Karen Hughes to a top job running the new Public Diplomacy Rapid Response office in Brussels.

In an unusually strong letter last week to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , J. Anthony Holmes , head of the American Foreign Service Association, called the selection of Diane Zeleny a 'pre-cooked deal,' apparently done by manipulating the process and violating personnel rules and standard practices. AFSA, he said, was filing a grievance 'to undo this assignment.'"

Comment: Those people really understand Public Diplomacy don't they! JAD