Primer on Douglas FEITH - Faux's So-called "Smoking Gun"

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That memo Faux is making a big deal over, the so-called "smoking gun" for linking Iraq to 9-11, was ONLY dated a couple or three weeks ago and came from one Douglas FEITH, to wit:



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http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=453
06.05.03

DOUG FEITH SELF-DESTRUCTS: Forget the Tanenhaus-Wolfowitz transcript. The latest astonishing news out of the Pentagon is yesterday morning's press briefing with Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. Feith, a leading administration hawk, took to the podium to quash the emerging story that the Pentagon pressured or politicized intelligence on Iraq--particularly as it related to Iraq's ties to terrorism and its weapons of mass destruction--so policymakers (and the public) would only hear information that supported the hawkish argument. Alas, as the transcript reveals, the damage-control project is quickly unraveling.

Feith began by assailing the "goulash of inaccuracies" about the Defense Department's internal intelligence unit. In truth, he said, the tiny office was established a month after 9/11 to review previously collected intelligence about terrorism and "to think through what it means for the Defense Department to be at war with a terrorist network"--not to examine Iraq, and not to examine weapons of mass destruction. Feith conceded that the unit "came up with some interesting observations about the linkages between Iraq and Al Qaeda" and then presented them to the CIA in the summer of 2002. But he insisted that the unit's review of the Iraq-Al Qaeda link was "incidental." Furthermore, Feith said it was "flatly not true" that the unit "developed the case on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction," and argued that the intelligence assessments of the threat from Iraq's WMD stayed consistent with the Clinton administration's. And most important, he said it's "not true" that "the reason this team was created was because we wanted the intelligence looked at in a different way." ....


http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Douglas_Feith
.... Feith currently serves as the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, the third ranking civilian position at the Pentagon. Formerly, he served on the White House National Security staff during Ronald Reagan's first term in office. Richard Allen was Feith's boss at that time. During Reagan's second term in office, Feith was part of Richard Perle's Pentagon team.

It is related that in 1989, Feith registered International Advisors, Inc. (IAI) as a foreign agent that would represent the government of Turkey. Official documents state that one purpose of IAI's work would be to "promote the objective of U.S.-Turkey defense industrial cooperation." The IAI was described in both the United States and Turkey as the brainchild of Richard N. Perle. ....

http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/07/1629064.php
Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith twisted CIA data in order to justify a war against Iraq
by JASON LEOPOLD, counterpunch.org Sunday July 20, 2003 at 03:40 AM

http://new.globalfreepress.com/NeoCons/03/07/27/2225247.shtml
Douglas Feith- Top 3 Plotter behind 911 + Iraq?

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[Classical_Liberal]

1. Feith is just an errand boy

I want Cheney, Perle, Wolfowits, Rumsfeld and the whole lot of them. Fire them Feith will leave on his own.

[xray s]

2. This "smoking gun" is only aimed at...

...diverting attention from the chaos and death that defines US policy in Iraq.

This is a desperate, pathetic propaganda ploy.

Unfortunately a significant pertentage of the sheeple will believe it and spread the lie.