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'''Alexis Debat''' is, among other things,<ref>Laura Rozen, [http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/006592.html "If Debat misrepresents...,"] ''War and Piece'' Blog, September 11, 2007.</ref> found described as a "political scientist and [[terrorism]] analyst"; a "senior consultant" to [[ABC News]] (now a former consultant; "Debat was asked to resign in June [2007] after questions were raised by the French government about his academic credentials.");<ref name="RossRood">Brian Ross and Justin Rood, [http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/obama-claims-in.html "Obama Claims Interview in French Magazine Faked,"] ''The Blotter'' Blog, September 12, 2007.</ref> a contractor for the [[RAND Corporation]]; a "contributing editor" to ''[[The National Interest]]'', a [[neoconservative]] publication founded by [[Irving Kristol]]; a Senior Fellow for National Security and Terrorism at the [[Nixon Center]];<ref>Cached bio for [http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:wHP0DlLJv3QJ:www.nixoncenter.org/index.cfm%3Faction%3Dshowpage%26page%3Ddebat+alexis+debat&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us Alexis Debat,] The Nixon Center, accessed September 14, 2007.</ref><ref name="HSPI">Cached bio for [http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:_-42Ikp9Yx4J:www.gwumc.edu/hspi/fellows/Debat_bio.htm+%22Alexis+Debat%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us Alexis Debat,] Senior Fellows, [[Homeland Security Policy Institute]], George Washington Medical Center, accessed September 14, 2007.</ref> a "premiere expert" on [[Pakistan]];<ref>Andrew Cochran, [http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/09/pakistan_expert_finds_powerful.phpa "Pakistan Expert Discusses Powerful Al Qaeda-Taliban Network in Waziristan,"] ''Counterterrorism'' Blog, September 13, 2006.</ref> a "former advisor to the French minister of Defense on Transatlantic Affairs"; a "visiting professor at Middlebury College"; and "Director of the Scientific Committee for the [[Institut Montaigne]] (Paris)".<ref>Alexis Debat, [http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol2Issue30/Vol2Issue30Debat.html "9/11: Not A Failure. A Choice,"] ''The National Interest'', Vol 2 Issue 30; accessed September 14, 2007.</ref>
Debat also had affiliations with the [[think tank]] the [[Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments]], and the lobbying firm [[Jefferson Waterman International]], and sought work with the PR firm the [[Lincoln Group]], reported Laura Rozen. "Debat was introduced to a co-founder of the Lincoln Group, [[Paige Craig]], at a Washington dinner party, and the two became friends." According to Craig, Debat had "done two hours of consulting work for Lincoln Group staff on the Horn of Africa." Lincoln CEO Ray Petty told Rozen that Debat "was supposed to get with some of my guys in Dubai ... but he was never an employee." Lincoln co-founder [[Christian Bailey]] said that "to the best of my knowledge, Debat has not worked for the Lincoln Group." Why all the job hustling? "In a practice not uncommon at think tanks," wrote Rozen, "Debat's position at the Nixon Center required him to raise his own funds." <ref>Laura Rozen, "[http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/09/alexis-debat-six-degrees.html Six Degrees of Alexis Debat: Think tanks, lobby shops, the Pentagon: Is there anyone in Washington that the discredited ABC consultant did not do business with?]," Mother Jones, October 2, 2007.</ref>
"Simply put," Will Bunch of ''Attytood'' Blog wrote September 13, 2007, "Debat -- a former French defense official who now works at the (no, you can't make these things up) Nixon Center -- has also been a leading source in pounding the drumbeat for [[war in Iran]], and directly linked to some bizarre stories -- reported on ABC's widely watched news shows, and nowhere else -- that either ratcheted up fears of [[terrorism]] or that could have stoked new tensions between Washington and Tehran."<ref>Will Bunch, [http://www.attytood.com/2007/09/the_disgraced_abc_consultant_a.html "UPDATED (again): The disgraced ABC consultant and the push for war in Iran,"] ''Attytood'' Blog, September 13, 2007.</ref>