Moogie's Blog

Just what we need. Fake news.

In the past few days, stories have been surfacing about the well-travelled expert who has been National Security consultant to ABC News.  His name is Alexis Debat. 

This guy worked not only for ABC, but for GW University, Middlebury College, and several other consulting rackets.   He claims to have intereviewed subjects ranging from Talibanees to Barak Obama.  However, his credentials are in dispute.  His PhD, if he actually earned one, is on hold by the Sorbonne.  It was the French embassy who notified the ABC News organization that perhaps a further check should be done on his credentials....hmmm.

Here's the Washington Post story: 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/articl
e/2007/09/12/AR2007091202333.html

Someone on these blogs was asking about a report he or she had heard regarding internal attacks on the US by the Taliban or Al Queda.   See page two of the Post article, but here's an exerpt: 

Debat last appeared on ABC in May, in a "World News" piece by Ross about the possibility of Taliban sleeper cells planning attacks in the United States. In April, Debat appeared on "World News" to analyze a foiled terror plot in Saudi Arabia, and in a "Nightline" story on U.S. ties to a group mounting attacks inside Iran.

In fact, here's the original report ...read it fast, links to this guy are being deleted very quickly.

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/09/pakistan_ex
pert_find

Debat claims the French government is out to get him, because he has disclosed details of CIA covert operations. 

Huh? 

Debat also claims to be attempting an exhaustive history of the CIA.

Here's a Mother Jones piece, too.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/
09/5453_abcs_investigat.html

The funny thing is, when I saw his picture, I thought he looked remarkably like Jon Stewart.  The real Jon Stewart, you know?  The one who does "Fake News." 

 

Here's the real Jon Stewart.

 

 

Alexis Debat.   Does this man do fake ABC News?

 

 

C'mon...somebody has got to be pulling our leg.