Fox news analyst arrested for lying about being a CIA agent

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Fox News analyst arrested for lying about working as a CIA agent

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Fox News analyst arrested for lying about working as a CIA agent
Wayne Simmons had appeared on Fox as a guest analyst on terrorism since 2002. It is alleged he attempted to obtain government security clearances
Reuters
Published: 20:27 EDT Thu 15 October 2015
A Fox News news analyst has been arrested and faces charges of major fraud against the United States.
A Fox News news analyst has been arrested and faces charges of claiming to be a CIA agent Photograph: AP
A Fox News guest terrorism analyst was arrested on Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on charges of falsely claiming to have been a CIA agent for decades, US prosecutors said.

Wayne Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, bogusly portrayed himself as an “Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Officer” for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000, the US Attorney’s Office for Virginia’s Eastern District said in a statement.


Simmons allegedly tried to use that claim to get government security clearances and work as a defense contractor. At one point he was deployed overseas as an intelligence adviser to senior military officers, the statement said.


He faces charges of major fraud against the United States, wire fraud and making false statements to the government.

He has appeared on Fox News, a unit of 21st Century Fox Inc , as a guest analyst on terrorism since 2002 and has a wide presence among conservative groups, a profile on Amazon.com said.

Fox News spokeswoman Carly Shanahan said Simmons had been a guest on the network and had not been paid.

The indictment said that Simmons falsely claimed on national security forms that his previous arrests and convictions were related to his CIA work and that he had held a top secret security clearance.

The indictment also alleged that Simmons defrauded a victim out of about $125,000 through a bogus real estate investment.

The Amazon.com profile said he worked in anti-narcotics operations and in 2004 was part of Pentagon program for military and intelligence analysts. He is co-author of the thriller “The Natanz Directive”.

Simmons is a contributor to the conservative publication Human Events, the profile said. He also spoke at a 2013 forum sponsored by the Citizens Committee on Benghazi probing the deaths of four Americans in Libya in 2012.

The CIA said in a statement that it was working closely with the Justice Department on the matter. It referred queries to the US Attorney’s Office.

Golly gee. I bet Faux nooz will be quick to admit what a bunch of bullshitters they've been all these years!

[aitm]

Oh yeah? I work for the mother fucking CIA, the most secretive authority in the world…even they can't actually prove I don't work there!

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Oh yeah? I work for the mother fucking CIA, the most secretive authority in the world…even they can't actually prove I don't work there!

Are you a Fox Nooz analyst?

[drunkenshoe]

Watching too much TV shows? Moron,lol.

[Munch]

Why is fox news allowed to breath? I know everyone takes the piss out of them, but it is the worst kind of scrum that should have been cleaned by now.

[pr126]

Why is fox news allowed to breath? I know everyone takes the piss out of them, but it is the worst kind of scrum that should have been cleaned by now.

Scrum? Are they rugby players?

[Munch]

Scrum? Are they rugby players?

bloody kindle autocorrect...

[SGOS]

Ha!  He would have made an excellent politician.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Not to worry. The New York Times isn't too far behind Fox anymore.

In a June appearance at Hunter College with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., a woman in the audience said to him during the Q and A portion of the event, "I'd like to know why The New York Times signed an agreement with Peter Schweizer, right-winger, to promote his book," a reference to "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich"

"...We did not sign an agreement. That's been mischaracterized. We took informationâ€""

"From a right-wing crackpot like him?"

"We take information from all kinds of crackpots. That's called reporting."

[Hakurei Reimu]

Scrum? Are they rugby players?

Well, rugby is a hooligans game played by hooligans...