Douglas Feith - Revision history

Tom Griffin: category:Harvard

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Idrees: /* Zionism and Foreign Policy */

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Zionism and Foreign Policy

Idrees: /* Post War Denials */

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Post War Denials

David: /* Background */

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Background

David: /* Creation of Office of Special Plans */

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Creation of Office of Special Plans

David: /* Called for Regime Change in Iraq Five Years Before 9/11 Attack */

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Called for Regime Change in Iraq Five Years Before 9/11 Attack

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Background

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Affiliations

Idrees: /* Post War Denials */

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Post War Denials

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Creation of Office of Special Plans

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 ==Zionism and Foreign Policy==
-Feith has been active in Zionist causes since his youth. He has also spoken about the formative influence of the Holocaust on his thinking. He told Jeffrey Goldber,
+Feith has been active in Zionist causes since his youth. He has also spoken about the formative influence of the Holocaust on his thinking. He told [[Jeffrey Goldberg]],
 :“I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot,” he told me. “Chamberlain wasn’t popular in my house.” Feith’s father lost his parents, three brothers, and four sisters in German death camps...When I took all these nice-sounding [antiwar] ideas and compared it to my own little personal ‘Cogito, ergo sum,’ which was my understanding that my family got wiped out by Hitler, and that all this stuff about working things out—well, talking to Hitler to resolve the problem didn’t make any sense to me. The kind of people who put bumper stickers on their car that declare that ‘war is not the answer,’ are they making a serious comment? What’s the answer to Pearl Harbor? What’s the answer to the Holocaust?” He continued, “The surprising thing is not that there are so many Jews who are neocons but that there are so many who are not.”<ref name="jg"/>

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 :“The main rationale was not based on intelligence,” Feith said. “It was known to anyone who read newspapers and knew history. Saddam had used nerve gas, he had invaded his neighbors more than once, he had attacked other neighbors, he was hostile to us, he supported numerous terrorist groups. It’s true that he didn’t have a link that we know of to 9/11. . . . But he did give safe haven to terrorists...Given the ease, as everybody knows, with which one can reconstitute stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons if you have the capabilities which he had, I don’t think the rationale for the war hinged on the existence of stockpiles.”<ref name="jg"/>
-Tellingly, he only speaks about chemical and biological weapons (not weapons of mass destruction) and leaves out any mention of Iraq's alleged nuclear program. He also sidesteps the fact that his Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group was dedicated solely to establishing the Iraq-al-Qaeda link.
+Tellingly, he only speaks about chemical and biological weapons (not strictly 'weapons of mass destruction') and leaves out any mention of Iraq's alleged nuclear program. He also sidesteps the fact that his Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group was dedicated solely to establishing the Iraq-al-Qaeda link.
 ===Feith and the Arab Mind===
 When asked why US troops were not greeted with flowers as the neoconservatives had promised, Feith told the interviewer: '“But they had flowers in their minds.”<ref name="jg"/>

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 ==Background==
-Feith began his career in government shortly after his graduation from Harvard as an intern to a subcommittee chaired by Senator [[Henry (Scoop) Jackson]].<ref name="jg">Jeffrey Goldberg, [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/05/09/050509fa_fact?currentPage=all A Little Learning], ''New Yorker'', 9 May 2005</ref> Feith served from 1984 to 1986 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy and was Special Counsel to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard N. Perle from 1982 to 1984. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown University Law Center.<ref>[http://www.results.gov/leadership/bio_145.html]</ref> Feith has supported lobbying efforts aimed at persuading the United States to drop out of treaties and [[arms control]] agreements. Wrote one journalist in ''The Nation'', “Largely ignored or derided at the time, a 1995 [[Center for Security Policy]] (CSP)] memo co-written by Douglas Feith holding that the United States should withdraw from the ABM [antiballistic missile] treaty has essentially become policy, as have other CSP reports opposing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the International Criminal Court.” [http://www.security-policy.org/papers/1998/98-D139.html Source: Center for Security Policy 98-D139]
+Feith began his career in government shortly after his graduation from Harvard as an intern to a subcommittee chaired by Senator [[Henry (Scoop) Jackson]].<ref name="jg">Jeffrey Goldberg, [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/05/09/050509fa_fact?currentPage=all A Little Learning], ''New Yorker'', 9 May 2005</ref> Feith served from 1984 to 1986 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy and was Special Counsel to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard N. Perle from 1982 to 1984. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown University Law Center.<ref>[http://www.results.gov/leadership/bio_145.html]</ref> Feith has supported lobbying efforts aimed at persuading the United States to drop out of treaties and [[arms control]] agreements. Wrote one journalist in ''The Nation'', “Largely ignored or derided at the time, a 1995 [[Center for Security Policy]] (CSP)] memo co-written by Douglas Feith holding that the United States should withdraw from the ABM [antiballistic missile] treaty has essentially become policy, as have other CSP reports opposing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the International Criminal Court.”<ref>[http://www.security-policy.org/papers/1998/98-D139.html Source: Center for Security Policy 98-D139] </ref>
 Feith’s private business dealings have also raised eyebrows in Washington. In 1999, his firm Feith & Zell formed an alliance with the Israel-based Zell, Goldberg & Co., which resulted in the creation of the [[Fandz International Law Group]]. According to Fandz’s web site, the law group “has recently established a task force dealing with issues and opportunities relating to the recently ended war with Iraq. ... and is assisting regional construction and logistics firms to collaborate with contractors from the United States and other coalition countries in implementing infrastructure and other reconstruction projects in Iraq.” Remarked Washington Post columnist Al Kamen, “Interested parties can reach [Fandz] through its Web site, at www.fandz.com. Fandz.com? Hmmm. Rings a bell. Oh, yes, that was the Web site of the Washington law firm of Feith & Zell, P.C., as in Douglas Feith [the] undersecretary of defense for policy and head of -- what else? -- reconstruction matters in Iraq. It would be impossible indeed to overestimate how perfect ZGC would be in ‘assisting American companies in their relations with the United States government in connection with Iraqi reconstruction projects.’”

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 ===Creation of Office of Special Plans===
-A supplementary annex of the committee's review of the intelligence leading to [[war in Iraq]] says about Feith: A Senior Pentagon policy maker created an unofficial "Iraqi intelligence cell" in the summer of 2002 to circumvent the CIA and secretly brief the White House on links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'eda. [http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/071304B.shtml]
+A supplementary annex of the committee's review of the intelligence leading to [[war in Iraq]] says about Feith: A Senior Pentagon policy maker created an unofficial "Iraqi intelligence cell" in the summer of 2002 to circumvent the CIA and secretly brief the White House on links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'eda.<ref> [http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/071304B.shtml]</ref>
 According to Feith said, the non-descript name was chosen to obscure its mission.<ref name="jg"/>

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 ===Called for Regime Change in Iraq Five Years Before 9/11 Attack===
-Douglas Feith, along with Richard Perle and other noted neo-cons, called for the removal of Saddam Hussein in a 1996 round table report ''A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm''. [http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm]The removal was considered a means for foiling Syria's regional ambitions. This report was prepared more that five years before the attack on the World Trade Center. The report describes regime change in Iraq as an important Israeli strategic objective.
+Douglas Feith, along with Richard Perle and other noted neo-cons, called for the removal of Saddam Hussein in a 1996 round table report ''A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm''.<ref>[http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm]</ref> The removal was considered a means for foiling Syria's regional ambitions. This report was prepared more that five years before the attack on the World Trade Center. The report describes regime change in Iraq as an important Israeli strategic objective.
 ===Allegations of Leaking Classified Material===

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 *[[Office of Special Plans]]
 *[[Office of Strategic Influence]]
 *[[Project for the New American Century]]
 *[[Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000]] Member

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	A supplementary annex of the committee's review of the intelligence leading to [[war in Iraq]] says about Feith: A Senior Pentagon policy maker created an unofficial "Iraqi intelligence cell" in the summer of 2002 to circumvent the CIA and secretly brief the White House on links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'eda. [http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/071304B.shtml]		A supplementary annex of the committee's review of the intelligence leading to [[war in Iraq]] says about Feith: A Senior Pentagon policy maker created an unofficial "Iraqi intelligence cell" in the summer of 2002 to circumvent the CIA and secretly brief the White House on links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'eda. [http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/071304B.shtml]
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		+	According to Feith said, the non-descript name was chosen to obscure its mission.<ref name="jg"/>

	===Office of Strategic Influence===		===Office of Strategic Influence===