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.
Lying is a big deal.
This may be deeper than you think. O’bagy was working for Syrian Emergency Task Force headed by Mouaz Moustafa. Moustafa grew up in Arkansas and was an aide to Blanche Lincoln. He has strong ties to Washington D.C. and planned the trip John McCain took to Syria.
Scroll down to see a picture of McCain and Moustafa in Syria.