Alexis Debat another media fake

[Team Sergeant]

Fired Journalist Accused of Faking Interviews With Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates, Others

A former ABC News consultant fired last year because he couldn't authenticate academic credentials is at the center of a new dispute over apparently faked interviews with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates and others.

The consultant, Alexis Debat, quit the Nixon Center, a Washington think tank, on Wednesday after Obama's representatives claimed an interview with the senator appearing under Debat's byline in the French magazine Politique Internationale never took place. The interview quoted the Democratic presidential candidate as saying the Iraq war was "a defeat for America."

Pelosi, Gates, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg all said they never gave interviews that appeared in the magazine under Debat's byline, ABC News' Web site, the Blotter, reported on Thursday.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296768,00.html

This moron also works for the CIA, Rand......figures

http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol2Issue30/Vol2Issue30Debat.html


His name is quickly disappearing from major websites..... I got this through a Google "Cached" archive.... Homeland Security......LOL

Would someone please take a snapshot of this "cache" page......

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:_-42Ikp9Yx4J:www.gwumc.edu/hspi/fellows/Debat_bio.htm+Alexis+Debat&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Alexis Debat
Senior Fellow for National Security and Terrorism
Nixon Center
Phone: (202)887-1000
E-mail: adebat@nixoncenter.org

Alexis Debat is a political scientist and terrorism analyst. After completing his tour with the UN Relief and Works Agency in 1997 and graduating with a PhD from La Sorbonne in 1999, Alexis occupied various positions in the French government, first as an analyst on the
Counter-Terrorism Coordinating Committee, then as a senior desk officer for the Ministry of Defense.

Upon settling in the United States in 2003, he pursued his research on terrorism and Islam through his work as visiting professor at Middlebury College, senior consultant to ABC News, and expert on Islamic finance and Islamic law for clients such as Deutsche Bank and the Japan External Trade Organization. Still a senior terrorism consultant to ABC News, Alexis is now a contractor for Rand and a contributing editor to "The National Interest"
in Washington, D.C.

He also advises the Business for Diplomatic Action, a consortium of American companies, on the implementation of public diplomacy programs in the Middle East. He has published extensively on Islam and terrorism in "The National Interest" and on ABCNews.com, where he writes a weekly column.

[82ndtrooper]

I suppose he counted on the fact that most Americans do NOT read a French news paper or magazine, Politique Nationale. He was wrong !

[Team Sergeant]

Five years of left wing lies........ this fake has done some major damage.


nytimes.com

September 14, 2007
ABC Reopens Investigation, Again Wary of a Reporter
By BILL CARTER
ABC News said yesterday that it would begin a second investigation into more than five years of news reports that relied on information from a consultant, Alexis Debat, who has been revealed to be the author of faked interviews.

The interviews, published in a French journal, were said to have been done with prominent political figures, including former President Bill Clinton and Senator Barack Obama.

“We going at this again with a vengeance,” said Brian Ross, the ABC correspondent who was involved in most of the reports that used information provided by Mr. Debat, whom ABC hired in November 2001.

ABC fired Mr. Debat in June after discovering that his claims of having earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne were false. The network then investigated the reports Mr. Debat had participated in and found “they absolutely checked out,” Mr. Ross said.

Now, however, ABC is taking a further look into information Mr. Debat provided. Mr. Ross said ABC had dispatched an investigator to Pakistan to go over details of reports in which Mr. Debat provided information. At the same time, The Associated Press reported last night that it also was investigating three news reports that relied on Mr. Debat for information.

The renewed scrutiny has been driven by revelations about Mr. Debat after a French news Web site, Rue 89, reported this week that an interview supposedly with Senator Obama was entirely made up. Mr. Debat, who could not be reached last night, sent an e-mail message to ABC yesterday saying the allegations against him “are slanderous.”

He told The Washington Post Wednesday that an intermediary had spoken with Mr. Obama. But representatives for Mr. Obama denied that he spoke with anyone connected to Mr. Debat.

Subsequently, other figures whose interviews appeared under Mr. Debat’s byline in the French magazine Politique Internationale have come forward to say they never spoke to him. These included Mr. Clinton; Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman; Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft; and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Since his departure from ABC News in June, Mr. Debat has continued to work as a senior fellow for national security and terrorism at the Nixon Center in Washington. He was quoted as a knowledgeable source in an article in The Times of London this month, saying that American military forces were planning attacks that would demolish “the entire Iranian military.” He has also been quoted by many newspapers and news services.

Guillemette Faure, a reporter for Rue 89, said doubts had been raised about an ABC report, with Mr. Debat as a source, during the buildup to the Iraq war. The report said that Uday Hussein, a son of Saddam Hussein, had ordered two French ballet students at gunpoint to have sex in public.

Mr. Ross said in a telephone interview yesterday that ABC News had spoken with a representative of the ballet group involved in the incident and was satisfied that it had happened and that Mr. Debat’s information about terrorist activities in Europe and Pakistan had always been supported by other sources.

Mr. Ross said that French officials had alerted ABC in late May that Mr. Debat’s academic credentials might not be valid and that ABC fired him promptly after verifying the information.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/business/media/14abc.html?ei=5090&en=be5a9a7a14d54c02&ex=1347422400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

[82ndtrooper]

TS: Thanks for the update post.

This no longer appears merely just a falsification of ones background, but an attempted act of treason. One could argue that foreign policy decisions were considered with such outright lies and deception. Not that France has really ever made any critical foreign policy decisions. :rolleyes:

Between Moveon.org and individuals like Debat, Frankin, Hillary, Maher, Pelosi, Reed, Biden, Kennedy, O'Donnel, et al are there no limits to deception, lies, and utter fanatical mouth flapping ?

Oh, let's not forget Tim Robbins, Susan Surandan and Sean Penn. These are the far lefts exemplars. Now you can add Debat.

[Ret10Echo]

I would venture to say that they response would be that the ends justifies the means....

[kgoerz]

Do's this mean that Masters Degree I purchased last week, Ain't gonna fly. First it was the fake Rolex, now this.

[82ndtrooper]

Do's this mean that Masters Degree I purchased last week, Ain't gonna fly. First it was the fake Rolex, now this.

I had a fake Rolex too. It was on time twice a day.