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Controversial Syria Researcher Fired Over Doctorate Claim (O'Bagy)
Buzzfeed ^ | 9-11-13 | Susannah George

Posted on 09/11/2013 9:48:05 AM PDT by Dysart

A young researcher whose opinions on Syria were cited by both Senator McCain and Secretary of State John Kerry in congressional testimony last week has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for allegedly faking her academic credentials. The institute issued a statement on its website concerning the researcher, Elizabeth O’Bagy: The Institute for the Study of War has learned and confirmed that, contrary to her representations, Ms. Elizabeth O’Bagy does not in fact have a Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University. ISW has accordingly terminated Ms. O’Bagy’s employment, effective immediately. O’Bagy and her op-ed drew scrutiny last week when the Wall Street Journal failed to disclose O’Bagy’s ties to an advocacy group backing the Syrian opposition and lobbying the US government to intervene in Syria. The Journal was forced to post a clarification that “in addition to her role at the Institute for the Study of War, Ms. O’Bagy is affiliated with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a nonprofit operating as a 501(c)(3) pending IRS approval that subcontracts with the U.S. and British governments to provide aid to the Syrian opposition.”

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To: Dysart

How do you tell when a liberal is lying?

When their vertical and have a pulse!


21 posted on 09/11/2013 10:03:17 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Dysart
She sort of has the Kerryesque jutting chin thing going on too. Coincidence or another telling, common denominator?*

*It would be interesting if possible to check her DNA with another horse face, our lying SOS.

22 posted on 09/11/2013 10:03:54 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( When insane/feral Islamics are killing each other, stand back and let Allah sort them out!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I've been listening to podcasts of Tucscon talk radio (one of our Milwaukee gems has a show out there now) and apparently McCain has been astro-turfing his town halls by filling them with the same group of pro-war Syrians, who he just happens to call on each time.

they get up, FACE THE AUDIENCE, and make an "impassioned" plea for the US to intervene.

23 posted on 09/11/2013 10:04:53 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (John "I'll Give you SUCH A PINCH!" Kerry reporting for doody.)
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To: hal ogen

Yep.

The hair on the back of our necks and arms probably stands up in some ancient dna memory re survival, when ever we hear/read anything from these liars.


24 posted on 09/11/2013 10:05:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( When insane/feral Islamics are killing each other, stand back and let Allah sort them out!)
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To: factoryrat
When they're vertical and have a pulse!

When they're not they stop lying but they don't stop voting

25 posted on 09/11/2013 10:06:55 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (John "I'll Give you SUCH A PINCH!" Kerry reporting for doody.)
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To: Dysart
… O’Bagy and her op-ed drew scrutiny last week when the Wall Street Journal failed to disclose O’Bagy’s ties to an advocacy group backing the Syrian opposition and lobbying the US government to intervene in Syria

News Corp.(wallstreet journal, FOX News) Saudi bias on display

... . The second-largest holder of voting stock in News Corp. is Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal,a nephew of the Saudi king. link

26 posted on 09/11/2013 10:07:06 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
She looks a bit like Sandra Fluke.

Sandra Fluke is a slut!!

(Sorry, reflex)

27 posted on 09/11/2013 10:08:05 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Dysart
Contrast the quality of those who won our independence & then set up our Constitutional Federal Union with the caliber of those who are destroying it both domestically & by pursuing alien wish lists overseas! The contrast is as great as that between those who built Rome & the Caligulas & Neros.

The idea of such mentally & ethically deficient dolts as McCain, Kerry & Obama, squandering American lives & treasure in overseas adventures, is just plain sickening.

Read how much clearer, more moral & more relevant today, was George Washington's understanding or how Foreign Policy should be managed. (George Washington's Answer To George W. Bush on Foreign Policy.)

William Flax

28 posted on 09/11/2013 10:09:13 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: CatoRenasci
So, to paraphrase Woopie, this may not have been a "Lie, Lie", but more of a fib? It's hard to keep it all straight.

When someone says that they have a Phd, I always thought that they had a Phd. If they didn't have it, but were only working at it, they they didn't have a Phd.

Silly me for thinking that.

29 posted on 09/11/2013 10:11:32 AM PDT by Wingy
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To: RoosterRedux
Like!


30 posted on 09/11/2013 10:12:50 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: Dysart; maggief
maggief--- ping-a-ling!

Worse, she lied about her affiliation with FSA and about the composition and character of Syria's rebel forces---and pushed her "research" about the "moderate" rebels all over Washington.

Meet the Syrian Islamist Organization Controlling Senator McCain’s Agenda

Much info on this thread

31 posted on 09/11/2013 10:14:14 AM PDT by thouworm (A lawless oligarchy has replaced our Constitution-based govt. Their motto: Catch us if you can.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Betwixt this and one Bret Stevens’ wrongheadedness on Syria, the wsj has gone astray lately. For shame.


32 posted on 09/11/2013 10:16:01 AM PDT by Dysart (Being nuts has its advantages...and the machete doesn't hurt, either.)
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To: factoryrat

When they are horizontal and have no pulse they are still ‘lying’ are they not?.........


33 posted on 09/11/2013 10:17:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
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To: Dysart

Is this the Gal who was on several talk shows tv and radio who spoke with conviction that she had been to Syria and knew first hand that there was a moderate rebel force there, who we needed to help?

I listened to her, and must say she convinced me for moment there, that maybe people like McCain and company were right.
At least a year ago.

She says now that the force are ex soldiers,over 100,000 strong.


34 posted on 09/11/2013 10:20:35 AM PDT by nikos1121 (“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet)
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To: Dysart
She's a Democrat so they will try to say “What difference now does it make? Proving O’Bull shiite is a liar never fed a hungry child?” but it does make a difference.
35 posted on 09/11/2013 10:22:01 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Dysart

She’s a Democrat so they will try to say “What difference now does it make? Proving O’Bull shiite is a liar never fed a hungray child?” but it does make a difference.


36 posted on 09/11/2013 10:24:20 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Dysart
Well, yeah, it's a fake degree, but it's a fake degree from a really good college.
37 posted on 09/11/2013 10:29:34 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Red Badger

Did you issue voter’s cards for the city of Chicago by chance? I think they use the same qualifiers for voting.


38 posted on 09/11/2013 10:30:30 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: opentalk
The second-largest holder of voting stock in News Corp. is Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a nephew of the Saudi king.

Not anymore. Southeastern Asset Mgmt is the second-largest stockholder. Murdoch owns 39%, Southeastern owns 12%, and bin Talal owns 6.6%.

39 posted on 09/11/2013 10:32:21 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Do liberals EVER tell the truth?

The short answer is 'no'.

The long answer is 'Hell, no".

I hope this clarifies matters? :)

40 posted on 09/11/2013 10:32:41 AM PDT by chesley (Vast deserts of political ignorance makes liberalism possible - James Lewis)
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