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McCain Hires Controversial Syria Analyst Elizabeth O'Bagy
The Cable ^ | 9/27/13 | Shane Harris

Posted on 09/27/2013 12:55:41 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55

Sen. John McCain has hired Elizabeth O'Bagy, the Syria analyst in Washington who was fired for padding her credentials, The Cable has learned. She begins work Monday as a legislative assistant in McCain's office.

O'Bagy was a young but well-respected adviser at the Institute for the Study of War and had emerged quickly as an important voice among those arguing in favor of intervention in Syria. McCain and others had cited her work publicly before her nascent reputation collapsed when it was discovered that her claims to having a combined masters/PhD were false and that in fact she had not yet defended her thesis.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecable.foreignpolicy.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assclown; collaborator; elizabethobagy; grahamgraphic; mccain; mccaingraphic; obagy; recall; sellout
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To: ConservativeMan55

41 posted on 09/27/2013 1:07:52 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

42 posted on 09/27/2013 1:08:02 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Truth29
How typically McCain - hiring a fraud and mouthpiece for terrorists.

Yes, it is just one phony, hiring another phony.

43 posted on 09/27/2013 1:08:10 PM PDT by Mark17 (It is every liberal's job to destroy America, and every conservative's job to stop him.)
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44 posted on 09/27/2013 1:08:15 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Maybe this will help. I'm not sure if I am violating any rules of the forum by posting this, but this page definitely says that an Arizona Senator CAN BE recalled. Roughly 460K signatures are required to start the procedure though. http://www.dailypaul.com/299048/recall-senator-john-mccain
45 posted on 09/27/2013 1:08:19 PM PDT by waldenMP
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To: ConservativeMan55

46 posted on 09/27/2013 1:08:29 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

MaCain demonstrAtes his judgment, discernment, and moral standards yet again.


47 posted on 09/27/2013 1:08:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Er)
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To: ConservativeMan55
See Does anyone know the process to recall Senator John McCain - TraitorPain, Pain in the ass McCain? for the definitive research on why a recall cannot happen. Post 20.
48 posted on 09/27/2013 1:09:01 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Henceforth, the Office of the President shall be known as IMPOTUS)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Why am I not surprised he would hire this lying scam artist?


49 posted on 09/27/2013 1:09:10 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: ConservativeMan55

Well, I guess it really is the end-game time for America. All the pretenses, all the masks, are dropping.


50 posted on 09/27/2013 1:09:39 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

McCain has become his own parody. Mencken, Twain, Steyn and Wolfe together couldn’t create such a ridiculous figure.


51 posted on 09/27/2013 1:10:15 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: waldenMP

Interesting.

Everything I had read before said there was no process for recall.

But it sounds as if Arizona may have something.


52 posted on 09/27/2013 1:10:34 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55; thouworm

It gets worse. IMHO, McCain and Kerry used O’Bagy for the WSJ piece.

http://swampland.time.com/2013/09/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-elizabeth-obagy/

O’Bagy graduated from Georgetown with a bachelors degree in Arabic and went to live in Cairo for two years before returning to Washington to seek her masters and PhD from her alma mater in Arabic Studies. At the end of 2011 she began an internship with the Institute.

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O’Bagy, a registered Democrat who voted twice for Obama, admits now that she was naïve about the Institute and Kim and her husband Fred Kagan.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/wall-street-journal-elizabeth-obagy-fired-96637.html

Prior to ISW, she received a Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Tangier Morocco and studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo.”

http://www.clscholarship.org/about.php

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

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HT: thouworm

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2013/09/12/obagy-affadavit-in-harroun-case/

Fox missed something-— “Previously I was a Senior Research Analyst at the Institute For the Study of War where I specilized in Syrian politicss and security.”

Affadavit signed June 19, 2013

Not only did Kimberly Kagan have prior knowledge that O’Bagy did NOT have a PhD, she also knew (sent out?) O’Bagy to propagandize Congress and the MSM with lies about the strength and numbers of Syrian rebel “moderates.”

And... to emphasize...what is this?!!!

“Previously I was a Senior Research Analyst at the Institute For the Study of War where I specialized in Syrian politicss and security.”

ISW, et al, bear close scrutiny. We now have THREE reasons O’Bagy was thrown under the bus by ISW, not the least of which is that her “research” was being exposed as a lie.


53 posted on 09/27/2013 1:10:38 PM PDT by maggief
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54 posted on 09/27/2013 1:10:41 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: LyinLibs

bttt


55 posted on 09/27/2013 1:11:41 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

Doesn’t matter. He doesn’t matter. He can stand up on the Hill and thumb his nose and wag his azz all he wants. He doesn’t matter any more.

We are just suffering through him the same as we are Obama. Time will run out and then we can slap his disrespectful smart azz into political retirement—tell him to sit down and shut up,

His having been a POW doesn’t give him a carte blanche to do whatever he wants to the American people. I can respect his service and thank him for that but otherwise—go screw yourself, Gollum.


56 posted on 09/27/2013 1:14:04 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: ConservativeMan55

John McCain is a dried up skid mark on the underwear of America.


57 posted on 09/27/2013 1:14:30 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Unbelievable.

I have to update his name:

Comrade Juan al-McNuts.


58 posted on 09/27/2013 1:14:50 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Ted Cruz for President!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

incredable....


59 posted on 09/27/2013 1:15:41 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: ConservativeMan55
Nope, NOT satire! Just Sad!

Sad is the sorry state of American leadership. Bunch of narcissists.

60 posted on 09/27/2013 1:15:48 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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