Open Thread for Night Owls |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 4:40 am |
| Tags: open thread for night owls, mazn, crooked timber, laura rozen, george w bush |
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Laura Rozen, one of my favorite investigative journalists, has written another chapterin the saga of Alexis Debat that’s worth your time. Here’s a whiff: Until he was exposed as having published fake interviews with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Alan Greenspan, Colin Powell and others that he had not in fact conducted; until his most prominent employer, ABC News, found out that he'd falsely claimed credentials such as a Sorbonne PhD; until, in other words, his successful career as a terrorism analyst began to unravel, Alexis Debat was a busy man indeed. In addition to his relationships with ABC, the Nixon Center, and (through a consulting firm) the Pentagon, it turns out Debat was aggressively seeking more work. According to multiple sources, one of the firms Debat approached was the Lincoln Group, a government contractor that specializes in influence operations and strategic communications; its projects have included a Pentagon contract to, among other things, [ Full article ] |
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