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. . . .
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Lies Lies Lies, they’re going to get you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6cn0mLJVZY&list=PLCE98D21A562E1433
Sounds like she’s qualified for Susan Rice’s job.
After plastic surgery/botox.
Just say "No Thank You" to botchulin toxin.
Why the long face?
John McCain doesn’t vet, check or confirm anything before ge goes running off at the mouth like a madman.
I ALWAYS thought she was a PHONY....glad to be right.....what ELSA has she LIED about???
Yes, that fits!
How was it checked? I was told to bring my sheepskins and my professional licenses with me when I processed into a new job.
I guess the Institute for the Study of War people are simply too lazy to ask to seen the sheepskin and are too lazy to call the university(ies) in question.
It seems to me as if the ISW people are no brighter than the morons at the New York Times and the Boston Globe who have hired liars who then proceeded to file stores that were lies.
Looks like a SKINNY Monica Lewinski.
What ADULT man would rely on a 26 yr. old girl for this crap??? LIBERAL MEN!!
There is a technical term for that status and it ain't Ph.D
OMG!! Looks like he had his CHEEKS filled out so his chin didn’t look so prominent.
Is that a 'tup ?
After reading the article, this seems much ado about nothing. Yes, she may have stretched it a little in the sense that she does not have the doctorate conferred on her yet, but has submitted her dissertation and is awaiting Georgetown to confer the degree. Sounds to me like all the work has been done for the doctorate and the paperwork needs to come through.
Of more importance is the fact that when she submitted the op-ed, the Wall Street Journal omitted her affiliations. According to the article, she has never made any secret as to her affiliations with this pro rebel group. Now, the WSJ later corrected it. Was that after she told them or some fact checker picked it up? I don’t know. However, it seems to me the fault here lies with the Wall Street Journal and their beating the drums to war.
Someone mentioned in a post, what 26 year old knows anything about the world. Well, it looks like from the article she has extensive experience on the subject of Syria and this current war. By 26, I had been in combat three times and travelled a lot of the world. So yeah, you can have a lot of experience at 26.
Did she stretch it a little to get that job at the institute? Probably, but it’s not an outright lie. She probably knew she was on her way to getting a doctorate conferred on her and wanted the job. Hey, it happens...
While I don’t agree with her views of beating the drums to go to war, I think this article is much ado about not much. Other than the WSJ forcing the issue on going to war.
An "op-ed" is by definition not an "ed" of a newspaper. For example, the same WSJ has been against Obamacare from the very beginning, and yet it has published an op-ed by one of its designers Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel.
Does JF’ing Kerry of the usurper 0bama regime, really want to go down the road of accusing people of lying about their backgrounds?!?!???
This is the evidence that John Kerry cited as ‘proof’ that Assad was behind the gas attack.
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.
The lie on her resume certainly was the factor that got her fired. The lack of disclosure that she represents one of the Syrian rebel groups calling for a US attack is more of a problem for Dumb (Obama) & Dumber (Kerry)..
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