 Complete the following phrase:  Simmons claimed to have enlisted in the Navy in 1973, received a medical discharge, and then trained in Alaska and worked for the CIA for 27 years, specializing in organizational sabotage, and retired in 2000. After being recruited to Fox in 2001 and making his first appearance on the Geraldo Rivera Show, he was a guest on Fox News in 2002, and by 2004 had become a regular guest commentator and was recruited into the Pentagon military analyst program in support of American intervention in Iraq; he was present when President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act in 2006. After the program was exposed as propaganda by the New York Times in 2009 and ended, he continued to refer to his participation in it, and in 2012 co-wrote The Natanz Directive, a novel he claimed to be partially autobiographical, about a retired CIA operative recalled to duty. In 2012, although the government was already aware of his false claims, he became a member of the Citizens Commission on 