During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to "launch a new 'America's Voice Corps' to rapidly recruit and train fluent speakers of local languages (Arabic, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa, Farsi, Urdu, and Turkish) with public diplomacy skills, who can ensure our voice is heard in the mass media and in our efforts on the ground."

We did a search of various online databases and consulted several years of State Department budgetary documents and found no recent mentions of this effort.

We also checked with public diplomacy expert William P. Kiehl, a former official in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. He's also the founding president of PD Worldwide International Consultants, a firm specializing in international public affairs and cross-cultural communications. He said the administration had not created such a program.

In the absence of any tangible evidence of this program, we're rating this a Promise Broken.