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 ...
Unreal.
Bruce Lindsey is the one who knows where all the bodies are buried. Within hours of Clinton’s team losing an appeal before the Supreme Court (9-0) which paved the way for Lindsey to appear under oath before the court, Clinton settled the Jones civil case for $850,000. Clinton was willing to pay out that sum of money just so Lindsey would never had to testify.
McCain is a collaborator.
married? couldn’t find anything
https://www.facebook.com/bailey.obagy
some Baileys, but no O’Bagys
That Facebook page labeled Baily O'Bagy certainly appears to be hers. So, "Baily" must be a nick or something.
More about her alleged "resume lie" can be found on the Right Planet blog. It seems that, in the light of what was on the ISW site in June, Politico questioned ISW founder Kimberly Kagan further as to the timing:
When asked further about the timing of O’Bagy’s academic claim, Kagan told POLITICO that O’Bagy “misrepresented to me in May that she had successfully defended her dissertation.” Kagan said she then started to call her Dr. O’Bagy, but that the website change only came later this summer when ISW did a broad staff update.“I began calling her Dr. O’Bagy at that time in internal official communications,” she said. “ISW updates staff bios in intervals. We had a batch of staff changes in June and July, and I expect that we changed it around that time. ISW therefore presented Elizabeth as Dr. O’Bagy on the website quite a bit later than in our internal documents. I have confidence that the public change transpired in accordance with records at internet archival sites.”
Georgetown University’s office of communications, meanwhile, said in a statement that “Georgetown University confirms that Elizabeth O’Bagy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2009 and a Master of Arts degree in 2013. At this time she is not a registered student.”
According to Kagan, O’Bagy in May led her to believe she had successfully defended her dissertation when she had actually failed her defense.
According to her Facebook page, she is from Utah, a 2005 graduate of Olympus High School in Holladay. O'Bagy is a quite unusual name.
Man, what is wrong with Lurches face? It looks plastic like Max Headroom. Every time I see a picture of him, it creeps my out more and more.
He looks more like LURCH every day.Almost has a Boris Karloff stare does he not?
The State Department.
Be forewarned, though. You're likely to run into some stiff opposition from Anthony Wiener and Elliot Spitzer.
Thank you for the info. Talk radio believed she was the same one. Hm.
My FRiend..I was attempting to make a joke...
“I am sure Obama has a job for her in his administration.”
Surprised no one has mentioned CLINTON yet! (Either one, really/s;)
The real reason that O’bagy got fired was due to her conflict of interest with the Syrian Emergency Group, which is an advocacy group for the extremists in Syria.
Her employer knew that she had not completed her PhD.
Hey, it worked for Sandra Fluke!
Plenty of places would require a certified transcript be sent from your university’s registrar’s office.
Even more damning than O'Bagy's lies about her credentials is the fact that she posed as an objective scholar studying the conflict in Syria, when in fact she was in bed with the rebels and their propaganda moutpieces from the get-go.
Returning back to what I’ve said, we need positive reinforcement in this war we’re fighting. When soldiers go into battle, they’re not told “we’re so screwed.” They’re told to get their butts out there and fight. This is the point I want to make. Let’s save the solution subject for another time.
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