Every fake war requires a parade of fake experts to help shill for military
intervention. Elizabeth O’Bagy is a prime example of one such operative. Beyond
her fake credentials, however, her story leads right to the heart of who is
really pulling Washington’s strings on Syria.
“Dr” Elizabeth O’Bagy, a
Georgetown University alumna, was thrust into the national conversation this
past week after she wrote an op-ed piece for Rupert Murdoch’s The Wall
Street Journal, an article which was later cited by both US Secretary of
State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, in their case for a military strike
in Syria.
The only problem was that O’Bagy, a “senior research analyst”
at Washington’s heavily pro-Israeli and neoconservative think tank, the
Institute for the Study of War (ISW), allegedly landed her job by claiming she
had received her doctorate from Georgetown University. She has since been sacked
from her role at the think tank.
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