"Wayne Simmons has been a frequent guest on Fox News for many years, providing what they said was expert analysis of intelligence and military issues...He is now under indictment for 'major fraud against the United States, wire fraud, and making false statements to the government.'
What's frightening about the revelation that Fox News was relying on an impostor to provide analysis of national security is that the phony analysis he provided may have been exactly what Fox News intended. That's because Simmons was identified as a participant in the Pentagon Military Analyst Program--an initiative developed during the Bush administration to dispatch retired officers, and other alleged experts, to the media in order to push their agendas in Iraq and elsewhere. The program was revealed in a Pulitzer prize-winning article by David Barstow for the New York Times. Bartstow wrote that...
'To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as "military analysts" whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.'
'Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the (Bush) administration's wartime performance.'
eye'm thynkin': Shame on Fox "news," stuck in a time-warp where they still believe they are doing good work for Dick Cheney.
But also shame on the FBI for not throwing this hack in the slammer years ago. Sure, he was initially protected by
If McDonald's can check a resume by Friday, surely it shouldn't take our federal government nearly seven years to find out someone is lying about being a former CIA operative.
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