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 ...
I don’t know any real Cherokees who promoted themselves to doctor before they even learned how to sew stitches. It’s not the 26 years that bothers me-—I was building nuclear submarines before I was 26——it’s just that propensity to make krap up and find willing buyers for snake oil.
Good riddance to the lying liberal trollop!
Lying is a big deal.
The odd thing is that if she had indeed already made her thesis defense, most employers would accept that as essentially the equivalent of having the degree. There is no requirement for a PhD in her line of work, its just an extra.
Bill Clinton's Foundation will be happy to hire her.
“According to the article, “[ISW Founder Elizabeth] Kagan gave May of this year as a rough estimate of when O’Bagy’s biography on the ISW site was updated to state she had obtained her Ph.D.” However, here is what the Wayback Machine has for her ISW site bio as of 23 June:”
Something very fishy here ...
Elizabeth Kagan’s sister-in-law is Victoria Nuland, former spokesperson for the United States Department of State. She was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in May 2013.
“McCain Wanted To Have Sleepover With Syrian Kidnappers”
Elizabeth O’Bagy, Syria team leader at the Institute for the Study of War, told The Daily Caller the Arizona Republican was so taken with his Sunni guerrilla hosts that he had to be “forced” by his security detail to leave.
In an exclusive interview with TheDC, O’Bagy described the trip she arranged for the senator through the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF).
“The rebels had opened their doors and were welcoming McCain to stay and have dinner at their house and stay the night,” O’Bagy said. “It was a very fascinating trip…It was really great to see an American politician reach out to the Syrian people in ways that no one else has done.”
http://patdollard.com/2013/09/mccain-wanted-to-have-sleepover-with-syrian-kidnappers/
Damn! I liked her when she was on Fox...such a shame that she’s just another lying B from the Beltway.
She took one for the team.
Great catch!
You might also be interested in this article/thread:
Digital Page-Shredding on SETF’s Website? (O’Bagy in bed with Muslim Brotherhood)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3065536/posts
Maybe she deserves to be scapegoated, but we should be fully cognizant that that is indeed going on!! That means they're hiding the sins of a much bigger sinner.
Resent this woman, but don't turn off your brains! Watch what the other hand is doing. The WSJ was all for Syria intervention, now suddenly they're making a ritual sacrifice.
please see my post above.
So this lying foreigner can get a better job than 90 million unemployed Americans?
...if O’Bagy is willing to work for free maybe...
That depends. What tribe is she from? Is she Cherokee, too?
Luo would be better.
Actually, this sounds like she was an expendable, as someone speculated above, called in by the Administration for a short-term, jihadi-style "information operation".
Lie and run.
I wish you were right .... but look at Slick. In the words of Jim McDougal, Slick and Beast were, in fact, able to lie faster than McDougal and others could expose them.
'Specially with Web Hubbell and Susan McDougal, who had all the goods on those two, rolling over as needed to fade the heat on ...... come to think of it, what the hell were Billy and Hilly to those people, that they would take long, long stretches in federal prison for them?
Slick and Beast must have had a hit team working ..... oh, wait a sec. ...
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