Fox News 'terror expert' Wayne Simmons arrested for lying about 27-year career as CIA officer

[SlyPokerDog]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-...ert-arrested-for-pretending-to-be-cia/6859576

 

[Denny Crane]

In related news...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...95166e-2708-11e3-ad0d-b7c8d2a594b9_story.html

Ex-EPA official pleads guilty to theft, pretended to work for the CIA

A former high-level official at the Environmental Protection Agency admitted Friday that he stole nearly $900,000 from the government by pretending to work for the CIA in a plea agreement that raised questions about how top agency managers failed to detect the scheme since it began in 1994.

John C. Beale duped a series of supervisors, including top officials of the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, disappearing from the office and explaining his absences by telling his bosses that he was doing top-secret work for the CIA and its “directorate of operations.”

He lied about contracting malaria (he didn’t) while he served in Vietnam (all his military service was in the United States) to obtain a parking space reserved for the disabled that cost the EPA $8,000 over three years. He took personal trips to Los Angeles for which he charged the government more than $57,000, according to new court filings.

In all, Beale was paid for 21 / 2 years of work he did not perform since early 2000 and received about $500,000 in “retention bonuses” he did not deserve for nearly two decades, according to court papers and interviews.

“To our knowledge, prior to [current EPA Administrator] Gina McCarthy expressing her concerns, no one at EPA ever checked to see if Mr. Beale worked for the CIA,” said Assistant Inspector General Patrick Sullivan, who led the investigation that included interviews of 40 people. Only one, an executive assistant, suspected Beale’s story of working for the clandestine service.

 

[speeds]

I am also a terror expert. I've seen all of George A. Romero's films, even the shit ones (and there are a lot of shit ones).

 

[SlyPokerDog]

In related news...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...95166e-2708-11e3-ad0d-b7c8d2a594b9_story.html

Ex-EPA official pleads guilty to theft, pretended to work for the CIA

A former high-level official at the Environmental Protection Agency admitted Friday that he stole nearly $900,000 from the government by pretending to work for the CIA in a plea agreement that raised questions about how top agency managers failed to detect the scheme since it began in 1994.

John C. Beale duped a series of supervisors, including top officials of the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, disappearing from the office and explaining his absences by telling his bosses that he was doing top-secret work for the CIA and its “directorate of operations.”

He lied about contracting malaria (he didn’t) while he served in Vietnam (all his military service was in the United States) to obtain a parking space reserved for the disabled that cost the EPA $8,000 over three years. He took personal trips to Los Angeles for which he charged the government more than $57,000, according to new court filings.

In all, Beale was paid for 21 / 2 years of work he did not perform since early 2000 and received about $500,000 in “retention bonuses” he did not deserve for nearly two decades, according to court papers and interviews.

“To our knowledge, prior to [current EPA Administrator] Gina McCarthy expressing her concerns, no one at EPA ever checked to see if Mr. Beale worked for the CIA,” said Assistant Inspector General Patrick Sullivan, who led the investigation that included interviews of 40 people. Only one, an executive assistant, suspected Beale’s story of working for the clandestine service.

How is that related news when it's from 2013?

Denny gets defensive when his precious Fox News is criticized.

 

[Denny Crane]

How is that related news when it's from 2013?

Denny gets defensive when his precious Fox News is criticized.

Another guy claiming to be a CIA agent who committed fraud.

Seems related.

 

[e_blazer]

This is a few years old, but it tends to indicate that failure to adequately vet "experts" isn't a problem for Fox alone:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidth...o-msnbc-abc-news-the-new-york-times-and-more/

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Looks to me like Mr. Beale's job with the CIA was so top secret that even the Agency didn't know he worked for them...

 

[jlprk]

How about the opposite? What about the snoopy CIA, military, and police who nose around this board so that if revolution ever breaks out, we're all deadmen?

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Thanks for blowing my cover, dude. I almost had Mags in handcuffs....

 

[Strenuus]

In other news, this is not shocking.

 

[MARIS61]

CIA agents pretend to be all sorts of other people and lie about even to their families and friends.

Seems to be the exact same type of crime. Does a law exist that actually makes it okay for them but not for the private citizens they serve? Or should we begin prosecuting them?

 

[MARIS61]

At one point he was deployed overseas as an intelligence adviser to senior military officers, the US attorney's office for Virginia's Eastern District said in a statement.

Seems "close enough for government work" as they say.

Senior military officers and CIA are in the same club, and if he is/was a CIA agent do you think they'd admit it?

Let's consider the credibility of the CIA:

http://antiwar.com/blog/2014/12/30/cia-admits-most-ufo-sightings-in-50s-60s-were-our-planes/
http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/72881/cia-admits-hacking-senate-computers
http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/10/finally-the-cia-admits/#
http://www.globalresearch.ca/1975-v...am-media-to-distribute-disinformation/5424860
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82588
http://www.infowars.com/cia-admits-it-creates-terrorism/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12196
http://www.wnd.com/1998/10/6919/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...ty-Director-Admits-We-Were-Lied-Into-Iraq-War
https://www.rt.com/usa/194992-cia-crack-scandal-webb/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/politics/cia-iran-1953-coup/