Wayne Simmons bringing his expertise to a Citizens Commission on Benghazi
Wayne Simmons has been a go-to expert for Fox News. The guy was a retired CIA operative! He fought in the War on Drugs—deep cover-style! He wrote a book a la John LeCarre! Federal prosecutors are saying Wayne Simmons is a big fat
liar liar pants on fire!
In an indictment unsealed Thursday, they said Simmons’s claim that he worked for the CIA for 27 years was false. He was arrested and charged with false statements, major fraud against the U.S. and wire fraud.
The indictment did not specifically call out as fictitious all of the work Simmons claimed to have done, and indeed, it acknowledged that he had won jobs with government contractors overseas. Those jobs, though, came only after Simmons “falsely represented ... that he had spent 27 years working in ‘Outside Paramilitary Special Operations’ for the CIA,” prosecutors wrote in the indictment.
Here's something from
Wayne's website:
Wayne joined the U.S. Navy in 1973 where he was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to became part of an Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Group. He spearheaded Deep Cover Intel Ops against some of the world's most dangerous Drug Cartels and arms smugglers from Central and South America and the Middle East . Simmons has been a Terrorism Analyst for the Fox News Channel since 2002. In 2004, under the direction of Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, he became a part of the Pentagon Outreach Program for Military and Intelligence Analysts. Simmons was one of the first outside Intelligence officers to visit GITMO (Guantanamo Bay , Cuba ) in July, 2005 and again in July, 2006 and March, 2008. In July, 2006 Simmons was given the distinguished honor to serve as a consultant to the Bush White House to assist in the construction of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 which was signed into law by President Bush in October 2006. In 2008 Simmons came out of retirement and trained as Team Leader of the HTT, Human Terrain Team’s, that were scheduled to deploy in Afghanistan. In 2010 Simmons served as the S-2, for the Counter Insurgency Advisory and Assistance Team, CAAT, at ISAF HQ, Kabul, Afghanistan. In 2014 Wayne had the honor of becoming a member of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi a position he still holds. He has written a novel, The NATANZ DIRECTIVE to which the movie rights were purchased by PATRIOT PICTURES LLC, for production in 2016. Wayne is the sole inventor and PATENT holder of the Fraud Prevention Software, HADRiAN. He is currently the CEO of Securus LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company.
You catch all of that? It's probably purposefully impenetrable as
most of it is suspect.
Prosecutors alleged in the indictment that Simmons was hired as the “Human Terrain System Team Leader” for an unnamed government contractor in 2008, and in that role, he trained at a U.S. Army facility. He won an interim security clearance for that job, prosecutors alleged, by “falsely stating that he had been recruited to the CIA in 1973, that he had not previously been charged with or convicted of a felony offense, that his prior arrests and criminal convictions were directly related to his supposed intelligence work for the CIA, and that he had held a top secret security clearance from 1973 to 2000.”
Simmons was hired two years later by a different government subcontractor, prosecutors alleged, based on similar lies. In that role, they said, he was actually deployed overseas as an adviser to senior U.S. military personnel.
The right wing and their "patriots."
