WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Douglas Feith , former undersecretary of policy at the Pentagon and author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism , offers an insider's view on the run-up to the war in Iraq.
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Ron Suskind’s new book alleges that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein linking the dictator to the 9/11 terrorists. The American Conservative’s Philip Giraldi argues today that “an extremely reliable and well placed source in the intelligence community” told him Suskind’s overall claim “is correct,” but that it was Douglas...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
WaPo | Dana Milbank | July 16, 2008 | Let the Games Begin!For months, if not years, congressional Democrats had craved the chance to pounce on Doug Feith, the former No. 3 at the Pentagon and the brains behind the Iraq WMD claims, torture policy and other great adventures. Yesterday, House Democrats finally had their quarry, wearing a tie almost as orange as a detainee's jumpsuit, compelled...
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
In this clip from Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearings about prisoner interrogation methods at Guantanamo Bay, former Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith gets into a tense round of questioning with Rep. Keith Ellison about what former Attorney General John Ashcroft did or didn’t tell him about interrogation vis-a-vis the Third Geneva Convention. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries...
Nuke 'm Hill (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Got this by way of Power Line. They summarize it best, so I’ll quote the beginning: This morning [yesterday], former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This is Feith’s opening statement as prepared for delivery. It is long, but worth reading in [...]
Fore Left! (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Douglas Feith, commonly known to the left as the evil progenitor of torture and various myths tying Saddam and bin Laden, was in front of the House Judiciary Subcommittee yesterday. Who knew? Apparently not too many. There is almost nothing in the news about this testimony, nor can much be found on You Tube. When David Addington and John Yoo testified before the subcommittee last month...
"We Have Some Planes" (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Power Line: Setting the Record Straight
Thoughts About K4D (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
I saw part of Douglas Feith's testimony before a Congressional Committee relating to torture in the Department of Defense. (Remember, Feith is a former political appointee in the Department of Defense who is accused of some of the worst mistakes in the build up to the Iraq war, and who -- in spite of his obvious political and bureaucratically successful career -- is thought to...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
We wrote here about the testimony of former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, chaired by Rep. Jerry Nadler. Feith testified along with Phillippe Sand, the author of a book which accuses the administration (especially Feith) of hostility towards the Geneva Convention...
Freespace (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Christopher Hitchens has a review here of Douglas Feith's book War And Decision, which I'm currently reading. It is an outstanding book, serious, scholarly, reasoned, and fair, although of course Feith has an opinion which he makes clear. And Hitchens...
US News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Once again, the Bushie omits key facts about the run-up and inept execution of the war.
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Douglas Feith last week wrote Why we went to war in Iraq. Among his arguments were: 4) While there were large risks involved in a war, the risks of leaving Saddam in power were even larger. The U.S. and British pilots patrolling the no-fly zones were routinely under enemy fire, and a larger confrontation - over Kuwait again or some other issue - appeared virtually certain to arise once...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
I was away this weekend at the wedding of the (not conservative) daughter of my conservative cousin from New York. I therefore did not have the opportunity to write about the bizarre claim that Douglas Feith's office at the Defense Department forged a document to prove an Iraq- al Qaeda connection. The saga began with reports about a new book by Ron Suskind -- The Way of the World --...
World (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
... Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, who prevented the troops from doing their jobs. (my emphasis)
Cambridge Forecast Group Blog (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
... hysteria but about antimuslim hysteria, a lot of it fanned by neocon/Zionist operatives like Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Robert Kagan, Norman Podhoretz, who are wirepulling the McCain campaign. Ferguson has a kind of Westocentric/Israelcentric inability to realize that Globalization I (1820-1945) was pre-Israel and where the Jews were the ultimate “rootless cosmopolitans’ and catalysts...
