He has appeared on Fox News, a unit of 21st Century Fox Inc , as a guest analyst on terrorism since 2002 and has a wide presence among conservative groups, a profile on Amazon.com said.
Combined General and Maryland "Freak State" DANG!
Posted on 10/15/2015 10:46:48 PM PDT by Helicondelta
A Fox News guest terrorism analyst was arrested on Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on charges of falsely claiming to have been a CIA agent for decades, US prosecutors said.
Wayne Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, bogusly portrayed himself as an “Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Officer” for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000, the US Attorney’s Office for Virginia’s Eastern District said in a statement.
Simmons allegedly tried to use that claim to get government security clearances and work as a defense contractor. At one point he was deployed overseas as an intelligence adviser to senior military officers, the statement said.
He faces charges of major fraud against the United States, wire fraud and making false statements to the government.
He has appeared on Fox News, a unit of 21st Century Fox Inc , as a guest analyst on terrorism since 2002 and has a wide presence among conservative groups, a profile on Amazon.com said.
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“Simmons allegedly tried to use that claim to get government security clearances and work as a defense contractor. “
How the HECK did that guy think is charade would not go unnoticed when they conduct a standard BI. . .idiot.
He has appeared on Fox News, a unit of 21st Century Fox Inc , as a guest analyst on terrorism since 2002 and has a wide presence among conservative groups, a profile on Amazon.com said.
Combined General and Maryland "Freak State" DANG!
So he fooled the government, but Fox gets smeared in the headline.
Media Matters and other lefties rags are having a field day with this. My only concern is that they are making it sound like the Benghazi situation was all made up by Fox News and it may get Hillary and Huma off the hook. I bet the left had this info for some time but let it slip now to cast doubt as to what really happened.
Media Matters and other lefties rags are having a field day with this. My only concern is that they are making it sound like the Benghazi situation was all made up by Fox News and it may get Hillary and Huma off the hook. I bet the left had this info for some time but let it slip now to cast doubt as to what really happened.
Real Name: Lamont Williams .... cousin of Brian Williams...
‘I didn’t know that was a crime. I mean, Obama claims to be an American and a Christian after all. Maybe the guy identifies as CIA? Aren’t we supposed to respect wishful fantasies of identity?” It works if your a leftest, not if you are conservative.
That looks like fairly unbalanced to me!
Claiming to have been sent to Niger by Dick Cheney when in fact you were not and were instead sent by your 2nd wife, whose claim to fame was being a super-duper deep cover operative while being on maternity leave from a desk job at the CIA, meanwhile, appears to be legal.
I remember him. Always thought he had spot on commentary.
Sorry to hear of this.
Don’t recall ever seeing this guy, not memorable I guess. Haven’t watched much cable news in recent years but did in 2002.
Humiliating for Fox, humiliating.
Not good for us either as the guy was solidly anti-democrat in his opinions.
Nonsense. Retired CIA personnel were on TV and writing books long before you ever heard of Obama.
“Nonsense. Retired CIA personnel were on TV and writing books long before you ever heard of Obama.”
Absolutely not to the extend they are now. And before Obama Navy Seals were damn sure not on every talk show on TV. What they did was clandestine and it stayed clandestine.
"it most Yesly is a word"
Back on FR at the end of the weekend - you made me LOL!
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