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U.S. pro-democracy groups on Thursday blamed an Egyptian minister who was a holdover from the era of ousted President Hosni Mubarak for starting a campaign against American democracy activists that has strained U.S.-Cairo ties.

The democracy groups' leaders denied their activists had done anything improper or illegal. Ken Wollack, president of the National Democratic Institute, said it had never trained or funded protest movements, never funded political parties, and never supported a particular outcome in any election.

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