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Topic History of: How A Fake PhD Hijacked The Syria Debate
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I find this interesting in light of a certain Witch Hunter General who claims to be a Criminologist and former 'child protection' detective who may not even have been a detective but just an 'acting detective'.
It appears the PhD may be non-existent. I cannot be sure but I think a certain raccoon asking questions of a government body may have been given info by disgruntled former workmates of the ex-plod, annoyed at his grandstanding.
thinkprogress.org/security/2013/09/11/26...ntials/?preview=true
Dr. Elizabeth O’Bagy, Syria expert, made quite an impression on Senator John McCain. During Senate hearings, the former Presidential candidate quoted at length from her recent Wall Street Journal op-ed painting a rosy picture of a mostly secular, pro-Western anti-Assad insurgency.
“John, do you agree with Dr. O’Bagy’s assessment of the opposition?,” the Senator asked the Secretary of State John Kerry. “I agree with most of that,” he replied.
Except Dr. O’Bagy wasn’t actually a doctor. Her PhD was fabricated, a lie she told her employers at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), an influential neoconservative-aligned think tank, to get hired. Ironically, it ended up being the lie that got her fired Wednesday. This postmodern reenactment of the Icarus myth also provides a bizarrely informative window into the way that Washington’s foreign policy sausage gets made. |
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