If there’s anyone that has passed before us in this last 6+ years that embodies the total horror of it all, it’s this man – Douglas Feith. I guess he’s a smart person. He’s a Magna Cum Laude graduate from both Harvard College and Georgetown Law. But if ever there were a person who ought to have questioned the influences of his background on his political ideas, he’s the one. His father was a victim of the Holocaust Tragedy who lost both parents and seven siblings to Germany’s Concentration Camps. His father was an active Zionist and a political Republican Conservative.
Douglas became an expert on the Middle East, but his proIsraeli Zionist ideas have pervaded everything he’s ever done in government [and elsewhere]. In 1982, he left the National Security Council under suspicion for passing information to Israel. He denies that allegation. He left his post at the Defense Department’s Office of Special Planse in 2003 as one of his underlings was convicted and jailed for passing information to Israel. If you look at his career, it’s hard to decide whether he works for Israel or our government. Most of us think he worked for both. There’s nothing wrong with being a Zionist. Given his family history, it’s easy to understand. But it’s hardly the policy of the U.S. Defense Department, and that’s what he made it into.
What did he do? He set up an alternative intelligence operation inside the DOD, where he concluded that Iraq and al Qaeda had a "mature symbiotic relationship" and presented his ideas as a briefing to top level governmental officials, and then he personally leaked it [his own top secret memo] to the Press [sort of the Press – The Weekly Standard, a neoconservative rag].
In February, the Inspector General’s report of Feith’s Office of Special Plans was released in summary. Today, they released the whole report and the slides he used for his presentations. Feith’s rebuttal to the report is included [longer than the report itself]. I wouldn’t bother reading it, but I would look through the slides. I’m reminded a lot of Joseph McCarthy from the 50’s. It’s all innuendo presented as fact. Nobody with any sense believed it at the time. Now, it’s known to be complete baloney.
Douglas Feith is a tragic figure. He’s a smart man whose ideas are so colored by his ideology that his conclusions and life work are just garbage. He’s running around claiming to be some kind of hero. Truth is, he’s lucky not to be in chains in some dark prison. No one is going to bother to really go after him right now because there are much more powerful crooks to contend with, but let us at least mark down for the record that Douglas Feith betrayed this country, on purpose, and to our great detriment.
Douglas Feith is a traitor, and that’s how he will be remembered for all time…
In many books relating to the Iraq war, Douglas Feith name keeps poping up. But in Bob Woodwards last book of 3 books he wrote about the Bush Administration, the author devotes about 30 pages to Douglas Feith. I wasn’t going to read the book but a relative bought it for me. I had felt for a long time that Woodward had sold his soul for book sales. I changed my mind when I read STATE OF DENIAL. He bought his soul back. This Feith should be arrested for his crimes. I have watched him on shows like Charlie Rose talk away about how he just put ideas out about Sadaam Hussein having WMD and how Iraq helped Al Qaeda. He is a really delusional guy.