September 14, 2007
Debat Scandal Roils ABC News
More shocking revelations today in the story of the former ABC News Consultant Alexis Debat who faked interviews for a French news magazines.Laura Rozen*, writing for Mother Jones' blog, has been on the story since it broke and has ferreted out much useful information. Just about everything Debat said he was turns out to be a lie:Riché also reported that Debat claimed to have a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne that he did not in fact complete, and that he had exaggerated his CV in other respects—claiming to be an advisor to the French Ministry of Defense on transatlantic issues, for instance, when in fact he had been a lowly desk clerk in the bowels of the ministry for less than a year; claiming to be a visiting professor at Middlebury College, when in fact he had been a visiting instructor for a short winter term at Middlebury, and other such exaggerations. Mother Jones has obtained an annotated CV the French Embassy prepared about Debat—whose claims to be a former...(Read Full Post)