This is a bizarre story about an ABC News consultant (now a former consultant) who put his name to an interview with Senator Barack Obama that was never conducted, published in the French magazine Politique Internationale.Alexis Debat, a former French defense official who has been working as a consultant for ABC News since 9/11, hired a freelance journalist to conduct the interview with Obama. Debat now says he was "scammed" by the freelancer because the interview never took place.But that's not Debat's only problem:ABC demanded Debat's resignation in June after discovering that he did not have a PhD from the Sorbonne, as he claims on his resume. "I was angry with him because it called into question, of course, everything he had done," said Brian Ross, ABC's chief investigative reporter, who worked closely with Debat. "He could never satisfy us that he had the PhD. . . . I was very upset." ABC News checked out the stories Debat had worked...(Read Full Post)