Talk:John W. Limbert
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The section "Lobbying controversy" is best handed under the page for the National Iranian American Council, which is currently protected from editing due to the contentiousness of the issue and lack of non-biased sourcing for the allegations. The issue is related to the National Iranian American Council, not Ambassador John Limbert.
Further, Ed Lasky and "The American Thinker" are not credible sources. The neoconservative Weekly Standard and Michael Goldfarb also have a well-known bias against the Obama administration's middle east policies, and Goldfarb's criticism is driven by innuendo -- not factual evidence of any wrongdoing. That a former US diplomat would meet with the Iranian Ambassador is not noteworthy or remarkable. It is called "track II diplomacy" and happens routinely.
It is hard to conclude anything other than that this section does not conform with Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons and the sources are questionable:
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikidave2009 (talk • contribs) 14:49, 20 January 2011 (UTC)