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Dear Friends Supporters As some of you will have seen on November 13 NBC News published an article that questioned our former CEOs character background and education alongside the work of Linking the World. To provide some context State Department officials are not allowed to respond to reporters regardless of the content of the stories being published. However I am not so constrained and when I communicated with the reporter I raised this issue with him and asked him to expand the questions being directed towards me. He ignored that request.