Posted on 09/11/2013 10:37:42 AM PDT by Hoodat
The Syria researcher whose Wall Street Journal op-piece was cited by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for lying about having a Ph.D., the group announced on Wednesday.
“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,” the institute said in a statement. “ISW has accordingly terminated Ms. O’Bagy’s employment, effective immediately.”
O’Bagy told POLITICO’s Kate Brannen in an interview Monday that she had submitted and defended her dissertation and was waiting for Georgetown University to confer her degree.
O’Bagy’s Aug. 30 op-ed piece for the Journal, “On the Front Lines of Syria’s Civil War,” was cited by both Kerry and McCain last week. McCain read from the piece last Tuesday to Kerry, calling it “an important op-ed by Dr. Elizabeth O’Bagy.” The next day, Kerry also brought up the piece before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing and described it as a “very interesting article” and recommended that members read it. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Consider the tens of billions of dollars that are spent each year by our intelligence agencies, $57 billion by our 'black' program alone. Yet with all that backing, the Secretary of State relies on an op-ed from a writer who lied on her resume to land her current job.
We are so screwed.
Maybe Elizabeth Warren will hire her.
Maybe Elizabeth Warren will hire her.
They probably knew it all along, just that she was a useful idiot up until now.
And they have someone to blame.
*snort*
Interesting connections in this thread.
Meet the Syrian Islamist Organization Controlling Senator McCain’s Agenda
She served her purpose and can now be reassi8gned to a higher paying position within the administration.
THATS his best evidence ?
how long has she had that job?
Yeah. I heard NPR interview her a few days ago. I remembered it because I thought it was funny that an organization had in their name “the study of war”.
Anyway, check out this correction on that story from NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/06/219560320/assessing-role-extremists-play-in-syrian-opposition
Lol....that's who I thought this was about, at first glance ;)
Why wouldn’t Obama, Kerry and McCain take advice from her?
After all - she’s almost old enough to get off her daddy’s health care plan.
A “worldly” 26 year old.
What else can you do with an almost degree in " Arab Womens's Issues "
...except lie ??
O’Bagy takes O’Bozo for a ride
Details at 11:00
That depends. What tribe is she from? Is she Cherokee, too?
If you show up in DC festooned with [self-awarded] credentials and spouting a line of BS that supports what TPTB want to do anyway you can go far.
Surely there has to be better pickings in the world of lying academia.
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