we can t retry the guy. so why are we talking about this? because i think it is important it s interesting. i m just saying it is fascinating. i will say that. i m just like i don t know quite what one wants to get out of that. i want to go to the story i think is interesting. i didn t mean to say it that way. but you did say it that way. the story i think is interesting and hasn t got a lot of attention this woman dr. elizabeth o bagy allegedly a syria expert, allegedly a doctor, a ph.d, who has now been widely quoted not only by john kerry and senator mccain in hearings as being kind of an expert on the rebel movement in syria, turns out she lied about having a ph.d at all. so she s not a doctor, she doesn t have a ph.d. she started off as like an intern about a year ago. and to me it just i think you talk about this on your web site. it s very much an insight into washington. it is. it s how you gin up a war that is not in in the country s interest. i look at i
bodyguard, with the woman who should know george better than any person on this planet believes that he is angry enough to shoot her and her father. we can t retry the guy. so why are we talking about this? because i think it is important it s interesting. i m just saying it is fascinating. i will say that. i m just like i don t know quite what one wants to get out of that. i want to go to the story i think is interesting. i didn t mean to say it that way. but you did say it that way. the story i think is interesting and hasn t got a lot of attention this woman dr. elizabeth o bagy allegedly a syria expert, allegedly a doctor, a ph.d, who has now been widely quoted not only by john kerry and senator mccain in hearings as being kind of an expert on the rebel movement in syria, turns out she lied about having a ph.d at all. so she s not a doctor, she doesn t have a ph.d. she started off as like an intern about a year ago. and to me it just i think you talk about this on
though is what i m getting at as opposed to like if o bagy had been cited according to the obama administration blah blah as opposed to she s an independent researcher. but i know this is how washington works. i just thought it would be interesting to pull back the curtain a little bit for our viewers because it does happen all the time. it happens absolutely all the time. the way to show the reality and then to show john mccain and john kerry talking about this woman in one of the most important hearings we ve seen in a long time, should give everybody pause. but it s part of the rollout. and i don t have any indication that she was involved in any way in that. we now know who she represents. but you see this article, you quote this article. somebody plants this article. we don t know fit was planted or not planted. i mean, the wall street journal just says that they had no idea about any of her other credentials, right? that s what public relations firms in this town do is th
those movies came to mind today because of this woman who has regularly appeared on cnn and other networks. i travel with groups where we actually can kind of identify the more extremist checkpoints. elizabeth o bagy. as the obama administration prepared its case for military reforce, she wrote an op ed for the wall street journal in which she pushed back against the narrative that the rebels are al qaeda-led extremists. she argued that quote moderate opposition groups make up the majority of actual fighting forces. there is a real moderate opposition that exists. the op ed was cited just days later by senator john mccain and secretary of state john kerry as kerry testified before congress. dr. elizabeth o bagy. she works with the institute of war, fluent in arabic. but she also works for an organization that advocates for the syrian rebels. the syrian emergency task force.