That sounds much worse than just awaiting to do a dissertation defense.
When it was subsequently discovered that O’Bagy had not received a doctorate as she had claimed, she was fired from the Institute of War, although her employers were still under the impression that she had attended the course and had simply not completed her disseration.
Last night, however, the controversial analyst admitted that she had not even attended the PhD program in Georgetown at all.
She told the Daily Beast she was only enrolled in a master’s program at the university and had applied to join the MA/Ph.D course but was never accepted.