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Don't believe everything you see on TV
// Personal Liberty Digest™
A frequent Fox News "terrorism analysist" was just sentenced to 33 months in prison for falsely claiming to have worked for the CIA for nearly three decades.
Wayne Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, has been a frequent guest on Fox since 2002, contributing to the network on foreign policy and terrorism matters as a "former CIA operative."
Between 1973 and 2000, the years Simmons claimed to have worked for the CIA, his actual resume includes such things as nightclub doorman, bookie, manager of a rent-by-the-hour hot tub business, mortgage broker and defensive back for the National Football League's New Orleans Saints.
Evidently no one at Fox bothered to verify the source's background. And, evidently since he was on television as an "expert," nor did anyone working within the federal government.
In 2008, Simmons was named team leader of an Army program and in 2010 he was deployed to Afghanistan on the taxpayer dime as an intelligence advisor.
"Wayne Simmons is a fraud. Simmons has no military or intelligence background, or any skills relevant to the positions he attained through his fraud," Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, told reporters.
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