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Fox News Analyst Arrested for Lying About Working as a CIA Agent
theguardian.com ^ | October 16, 2015

Posted on 10/15/2015 10:46:48 PM PDT by Helicondelta

A Fox News guest terrorism analyst was arrested on Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on charges of falsely claiming to have been a CIA agent for decades, US prosecutors said.

Wayne Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, bogusly portrayed himself as an “Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Officer” for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000, the US Attorney’s Office for Virginia’s Eastern District said in a statement.

Simmons allegedly tried to use that claim to get government security clearances and work as a defense contractor. At one point he was deployed overseas as an intelligence adviser to senior military officers, the statement said.

He faces charges of major fraud against the United States, wire fraud and making false statements to the government.

He has appeared on Fox News, a unit of 21st Century Fox Inc , as a guest analyst on terrorism since 2002 and has a wide presence among conservative groups, a profile on Amazon.com said.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: annapolis; boyking; cia; ciaagent; fox; foxnews; imposters; kentclizbe; maryland; obamanation; simmons; thethirdjihad; waynesimmons
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To: Helicondelta

“Simmons allegedly tried to use that claim to get government security clearances and work as a defense contractor. “

How the HECK did that guy think is charade would not go unnoticed when they conduct a standard BI. . .idiot.


81 posted on 10/16/2015 11:57:05 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Helicondelta; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...
Wayne Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, bogusly portrayed himself as an “Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Officer” for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000, the US Attorney’s Office for Virginia’s Eastern District said in a statement.

He has appeared on Fox News, a unit of 21st Century Fox Inc , as a guest analyst on terrorism since 2002 and has a wide presence among conservative groups, a profile on Amazon.com said.

Combined General and Maryland "Freak State" DANG!

82 posted on 10/16/2015 12:57:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Helicondelta

So he fooled the government, but Fox gets smeared in the headline.


83 posted on 10/16/2015 1:02:15 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Helicondelta

Media Matters and other lefties rags are having a field day with this. My only concern is that they are making it sound like the Benghazi situation was all made up by Fox News and it may get Hillary and Huma off the hook. I bet the left had this info for some time but let it slip now to cast doubt as to what really happened.


84 posted on 10/16/2015 3:07:18 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; God;s promise to Israel)
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To: Helicondelta

Media Matters and other lefties rags are having a field day with this. My only concern is that they are making it sound like the Benghazi situation was all made up by Fox News and it may get Hillary and Huma off the hook. I bet the left had this info for some time but let it slip now to cast doubt as to what really happened.


85 posted on 10/16/2015 3:07:20 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; God;s promise to Israel)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Real Name: Lamont Williams .... cousin of Brian Williams...


86 posted on 10/16/2015 4:06:02 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: onyx
Weird guy.
STUPID to go on TV under false pretenses, particularly with claims of CIA employment...LOL.
That agency doesn't take impostors lightly.


Good Morning Onyx, hope all is well with you?

I agree, the CIA doesn't take kindly to imposters, and although I'm certainly not making excuses for that mutt, I'm wondering if it might be a case of Simmons becoming delusional and believing his own pack of lies, and thinking he could go on TV and propagate those lies to the world and never be challenged.

We've certainly seen that kind of behavior out of Emperor Barky since January 2009.
87 posted on 10/16/2015 10:23:21 PM PDT by mkjessup ("Hillary was an unethical, dishonest lawyer and a liar which is why she was fired" - Jerry Zeifman)
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To: Psalm 144

‘I didn’t know that was a crime. I mean, Obama claims to be an American and a Christian after all. Maybe the guy identifies as CIA? Aren’t we supposed to respect wishful fantasies of identity?” It works if your a leftest, not if you are conservative.


88 posted on 10/16/2015 10:28:36 PM PDT by antonia (A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R. Murrow)
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To: Helicondelta

That looks like fairly unbalanced to me!


89 posted on 10/16/2015 11:34:02 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: piasa
Excellent response!

Claiming to have been sent to Niger by Dick Cheney when in fact you were not and were instead sent by your 2nd wife, whose claim to fame was being a super-duper deep cover operative while being on maternity leave from a desk job at the CIA, meanwhile, appears to be legal.

90 posted on 10/17/2015 6:31:25 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/watch the to destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq)
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To: Helicondelta

I remember him. Always thought he had spot on commentary.

Sorry to hear of this.


91 posted on 10/17/2015 7:31:33 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Helicondelta

Don’t recall ever seeing this guy, not memorable I guess. Haven’t watched much cable news in recent years but did in 2002.

Humiliating for Fox, humiliating.

Not good for us either as the guy was solidly anti-democrat in his opinions.


92 posted on 10/17/2015 8:36:42 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: NKP_Vet

Nonsense. Retired CIA personnel were on TV and writing books long before you ever heard of Obama.


93 posted on 10/17/2015 5:43:09 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Henry Hnyellar

“Nonsense. Retired CIA personnel were on TV and writing books long before you ever heard of Obama.”

Absolutely not to the extend they are now. And before Obama Navy Seals were damn sure not on every talk show on TV. What they did was clandestine and it stayed clandestine.


94 posted on 10/17/2015 8:18:26 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Bob434
"bogusly portrayed himself..."

"it most Yesly is a word"

Back on FR at the end of the weekend - you made me LOL!

95 posted on 10/18/2015 7:34:15 PM PDT by free-in-nyc (Freeping from the heart of the occupation)
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