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| Lurch and McCain's Syrian Expert Lied About Her Ph.D |
| 2013-09-11 |
| A young researcher whose opinions on Syria were cited by both Senator McCain and Secretary of State John Kerry in congressional testimony last week has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for allegedly faking her academic credentials. The institute issued a statement on its website concerning the researcher, Elizabeth O'Bagy: 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. ISW has accordingly terminated Ms. O'Bagy's employment, effective immediately. O'Bagy and her op-ed drew scrutiny last week when the Wall Street Journal failed to disclose O'Bagy's ties to an advocacy group backing the Syrian opposition and lobbying the US government to intervene in Syria. The Journal was forced to post a clarification that "in addition to her role at the Institute for the Study of War, Ms. O'Bagy is affiliated with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a nonprofit operating as a 501(c)(3) pending IRS approval that subcontracts with the U.S. and British governments to provide aid to the Syrian opposition." O'Bagy wrote in an email this Wednesday morning: "I was just fired from ISW and I'm no longer legally allowed to discuss my employment with them or affiliate it any way." In an interview conducted before O'Bagy was fired from ISW, she rejected claims that her research was compromised by her affiliation to the advocacy group, the Syrian Emergency Task Force. "My research is completely separate" she said. "Every journalist and every researcher goes into the conflict with their own background and their own ideas." "Elizabeth is one of the best experts on Syria and her field work inside Syria along with her extensive networks on the ground makes her one of few people that can help inform policy makers on the reality on the ground," said Mouaz Moustafa, the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #7 What kind of a chickenshit outfit are you, anyway? >:-( Oh, come on. For Progressives its about 'feeling' not about facts. To borrow a Progressive own words - what difference does it make. I just want to have the job assigning medical specialists for their care based upon the same rationalization. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-09-11 20:46 |
| #6 **** cough *** cough **** cough *** ... MILWAUKEE + PENN STATE MAY NOT BE PROUD, I REPEAT, MAY NOT BE PROUD?? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-09-11 20:21 |
| #5 So, how will Jawn Karry lie his way out of this one. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-09-11 18:43 |
| #4 oddly I think her lack of a phD makes her comments on Syria more credible less time in academia= more common sense |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-09-11 18:37 |
| #3 "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" Ya' didn't check her credentials BEFORE you hired her? What kind of a chickenshit outfit are you, anyway? >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-09-11 18:28 |
| #2 Yesssss, you can see how Lurch and Shifty McCain would have been drawn to her... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2013-09-11 18:21 |
| #1 So she is shadey about her friends, and a fraud. -slow clap- Way to go Team War. Way. To. Go. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-09-11 16:49 |