Wayne Simmons, Right Wing Media’s Benghazi Expert, Pleads Guilty to Fraud
This fraud won’t matter at all to the right or to the Fox News audience. They want to believe so badly that reality and truth matter not the least bit. The Benghazi Bullshit parade will continue, and the angry theater around it will become an undying myth on the right all the way to end of Hillary’s second term and beyond. Criminal miscreant?! Who cares! …
The release further noted, “Simmons admitted he defrauded the government in 2008 when he obtained work as a team leader in the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain Systems program, and again in 2010 when he was deployed to Afghanistan as a senior intelligence advisor on the International Security Assistance Force’s Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team.”
Dana J. Boente, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said, “Simmons admitted he attempted to con his way into a position where he would have been called on to give real intelligence advice in a war zone. His fraud cost the government money, could have put American lives at risk, and was an insult to the real men and women of the intelligence community who provide tireless service to this country.”
Simmons was a frequent guest on Fox News, appearing on the network dozens of times purporting to be a former CIA operative. In those appearances, Simmons regularly criticized Democrats on foreign policy and national security issues. In one instance, he said, “If the Democrats come into power in the United States and re-employ their vision of defense for this country, we will have 9-1-1s unabated.”
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