It was in an "interview" on a website. The website was a commercial arrangement, where "members" signed up to promote something they were selling, and got to have "interviews" posted. It was a bunch of cheesy crap, IMHO. I'm sure he never mentions his background on FR because he knows how FReepers feel about morons from the State Department, and it would hurt his attempts to pimp his novel.
It worries me that someone of such "stature" can't hold his own in a debate with someone else that has nothing more than a West Virginia public high school education.
It worries me that someone of his "stature" couldn't hold own in a debate with someone that had a sixth grade education from anywhere. My friend's kids have a better and more realistic understanding of history than GOPart does. Seriously. I'll never forget the first time I ran across one of his posts, it was just so childish and silly that I had to stop and seriously ask him if he was in gradeschool. I really wanted to know, and I wasn't joking. I thought he was some ten year old that was playing with daddy's computer (I think I asked him that, too). Alas, it was not so...he allegedly believes his bizarre and fantastical nonsense. The first time I saw him posting his drivel, he was saying that Sherman's Army never burned or looted a single thing while marching through Georgia. My head almost exploded.
I think that says volumes about the caliber of personnel at the State Department.
AMEN. Having seen the drivel that pours out of his mind, it's easy to understand just what the hell's wrong with the State Department. It hires people like him.