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Debat working for the Pentagon? Alexis Debat is telling people he still has some arrangement as an analyst or contributor with Andy Marshall's shop in the Pentagon, the Office of Net Assessment. An arrangement that he told people has not been interrupted by recent revelations of the fraudulent interviews he published in France.
As I first reported on Friday, "Sources also say that Debat claimed in the spring to have received a 'large chunk of money' from the Pentagon to conduct a study concerning radical Islam." I have since learned that he was preparing a study on Islamic warfare, perhaps for Andy Marshall.
He's apparently convinced some that the faked interview episode is an opera bouffe misunderstanding brought about by different journalistic practices between the United States and France. And some people apparently prepared to buy it.
Update: The Pentagon has gotten back to me and indicated its contract is with one of Debat's employers, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.