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	Harvard Gazette: Douglas Feith: Democracy gains foothold in Middle East
		Feith pointed to recent hopeful political developments in Lebanon, Egypt, and Israel/Palestine, but he warned his listeners that much remains to be done to ensure that the democratic institutions taking root there can flourish and serve the needs of the people.
		Feith defended the Bush administration's policy of promoting democracy in the Middle East, saying that it is a key component of an "offensive strategy" in the war against international terrorism.
		Feith's appearance at the forum was co-sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Harvard Republican Club, the Kennedy School Republican Caucus, the Kennedy School International Security Caucus, and the Institute of Politics.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/03.10/03-feith.html (462 words)

	Right Web \| Profile \| Douglas Feith
		Douglas Feith, the notorious former Pentagon official who has repeatedly been investigated for allegedly distorting prewar intelligence on Iraq, was hired by Georgetown University in May 2006 to teach a course on the Bush administration's strategy in the war on terror.
		Feith, along with Max Kampelman, was a team leader for NIPP initiatives, funded by the right-wing Smith Richardson Foundation, for studies advocating the implementation of ambitious missile defense systems.
		Feith is also well known for his participation, along with neoconservative big wigs Richard Perle and David Wurmser, in penning a 1996 study organized by the Israel-based Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies that urged scrapping the then-ongoing peace process.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1146 (2992 words)

	Informed Comment
		Feith's office is the subject of an FBI investigation as well as two Congressional investigations, one by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
		Feith seems to have used David Wurmser a a liason of some sort, employing him at OSP before he later went to other key advisory offices at the State Department and finally in 2003 to Vice President Dic Cheney's office.
		Feith is clearly resigning ahead of the possible breaking of major scandals concerning his tenure at the Department of Defense, which is among the more disgraceful cases of the misleading of the American people in American history.
	www.juancole.com /2005/01/feith-resigns-under-pressure-of.html (746 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source
		Feith and Perle were among the leading advocates of a policy to build closer US military and diplomatic ties with Turkey and to increase military ties between Turkey and Israel.
		Feith didn't see fit to mention that, along with Israel, the main beneficiary of such a global missile defense system would be military contractors such as the ones he represented in his law firm, including Northrup Grumman.
		Feith became embroiled in a new intelligence scandal in late August when it was reported that the FBI had for the past two years been investigating intelligence leaks to Israel from the Pentagon.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Front_Page/FI14Aa02.html (2664 words)

	Revolving Door Poses Danger to Defense
		WASHINGTON - The Senate's confirmation of Douglas J. Feith as undersecretary of defense for policy is a classic illustration of the dangerous abuses inherent in the revolving door that operates between government and private industry.
		Feith is a political appointee who has used his time in government to build relations that can be used for business purposes, and then returns to government.
		Feith was an attorney with the Washington firm of Feith and Zell.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/0807-02.htm (729 words)

	Douglas Feith - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Douglas J. Feith (born July 16, 1953), of Jewish-American background, has served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy for United States President George W. Bush since July 2001.
		Feith distributes a classified memo to the Senate Intelligence Committee based on this information, and the memo is later leaked to the Weekly Standard, a neoconservative magazine.
		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.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Douglas_Feith (376 words)

	Douglas Feith
		Douglas J. Feith is the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
		Feith was for fifteen years the managing attorney of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Feith and Zell, P.C. From March 1984 until September 1986, Mr.
		Feith transferred to the Pentagon from the National Security Council at the White House, where he worked in 1981-82 as a Middle East specialist.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Feith.html (218 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES
		Feith, who announced earlier this year that he will be leaving his post by this summer—he said he hopes to write a book about his experiences—has not often met the reigning aesthetic of Washington.
		Feith said, “The common refrain that the postwar has been a disaster is only true if you had completely unrealistic expectations.” The thesis of Administration critics, Feith continued “is that we were a bunch of people intent on going to war with Iraq no matter what.
		Feith did not argue that a force of Iraqi exiles would be a panacea, but he said that they could have aided in translating, in guiding, and in vetting local officials.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/fact/050509fa_fact (3947 words)

	Neo-Con Douglas Feith to Leave Pentagon
		WASHINGTON - Douglas J. Feith, the controversial policy advisor to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and a hawkish proponent of the war in Iraq, plans to return to the private sector this summer, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
		It was Feith's advocacy of a hard line toward Saddam Hussein after the Sept. 11 attacks that turned his office into the nerve center for U.S. policy toward Iraq.
		Feith also was one of the principal architects of Pentagon plans to reposition U.S. troops around the globe, removing them from large Cold War-era garrisons in Germany, Japan and South Korea and moving them closer to potential flashpoints.
	www.truthout.org /docs_05/printer_012805Y.shtml (752 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East
		The reference is to Douglas Feith, the administration's rather obscure but nonetheless strategically placed under secretary of defense for policy, who reports directly to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld.
		Feith also served with Perle on the board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a think tank that promotes military and strategic ties between the US and Israel.
		Feith first entered government as a Middle East specialist on the NSC under Ronald Reagan in 1981, but was abruptly fired after only one year.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EK07Ak03.html (1089 words)

	Douglas Feith
		Feith cofounded a Washington law firm where he spent the next 15 years, along with a little lobbying for Turkey on the side via Feith's corporation International Advisers, Inc. Then President George W. Bush tapped him for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.
		Feith's primary responsibility is to formulate Pentagon policy and assist in its relations with other federal agencies and foreign nations.
		Also, Feith is responsible for overseeing the work of the Office of Special Plans, the group set up by Donald Rumsfeld to accumulate interesting intelligence data and send them straight to Vice President Dick Cheney without wasting effort on time-consuming CIA analysis.
	www.nndb.com /people/100/000047956 (242 words)

	Douglas Jay Feith - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Douglas Jay Feith currently serves as the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, the third ranking civilian position at the Pentagon.
		Feith, a staunch neo-conservative, previously served on the White House National Security staff under Richard Allen during Ronald Reagan's first term in office.
		Feith earned $60,000 per year and his law firm, Feith and Zell, was the recipient from IAI of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Douglas_Feith (1141 words)

	Is Iran Next? by Tom Barry
		Feith is joined in reshaping a U.S. foreign Middle East policy-one that mirrors or complements the policies of the hardliners in Israel-by a web of neoconservative policy institutes, pressure groups and think tanks.
		It now appears that Feith's Office of Policy, which was creating dubious intelligence rationales for the Iraq war, was also establishing a covert national security strategy for regime change in Iran-most likely through a combination of preemptive military strikes (either by the United States or Israel) and support for a coalition of Iranian dissidents.
		Dalck Feith was a militant in Betar, a Zionist youth movement founded in Riga, Lativia in 1923, by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, an admirer of Mussolini.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Central_Asia_watch/Is_Iran_Next.html (2588 words)

	The Hoya \| Douglas Feith Hired as Visiting SFS Professor
		Feith, who served as undersecretary of defense for policy from July 2001 to August 2005 under President Bush, will serve as a visiting professor and distinguished practitioner in national security policy, the university announced Monday in a press release.
		Feith said that he will teach a course next semester about the Bush administration’s prosecution of the war on terrorism that will only be open to graduate students.
		Amid speculation that he was considering Feith for an appointment in January, Gallucci said that he had received unusually vocal resistance from SFS faculty members opposed to Feith’s work in the Bush administration, but said he believed Feith would be a valuable addition to the SFS.
	www.thehoya.com /news/050206/news3.cfm (407 words)

	USATODAY.com - Administration, outside experts see different Iraqs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Feith, the undersecretary of Defense for policy and a protégé of Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, has played a lead role in what has turned out to be overly optimistic postwar planning.
		In his speech, Feith described postwar civilian life in glowing terms, stressing that "economically, Iraq is recovering" and that "health care spending is 30 times greater than its prewar levels." He contended that "more than half the Iraqi people are active in civic affairs," a claim that would be hard to make about America.
		But Feith's faith in the righteousness of the cause must be weighed against the increasingly ugly realities of a postwar occupation gone awry.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/columnist/shapiro/2004-05-04-hype_x.htm (828 words)

	Right-Web \| Individual Profile \| Douglas Feith
		Along with Feith, all of the political appointees have in common a close identification with the views of the right-wing Likud Party in Israel.
		“Feith, whose law partner is a spokesman for the settlement movement in Israel, has long been a fierce opponent of the Oslo peace process, while WINEP has acted as the think tank for the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which generally follows a Likud line.
		Feith is also well known for his participation -- along with neoconservative big wigs Richard Perle and David Wurmser -- in a 1996 study organized by the Israel-based Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), which urged scrapping the then-ongoing peace process.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /ind/feith/feith_body.html (818 words)

	Douglas Feith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and Middle East specialist Harold Rhode recruit David Wurmser, the director of Middle East studies for the American Enterprise Institute, to serve as a Pentagon consultant.
		Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, adamant hawks, rename the Northern Gulf Affairs Office on the Pentagon’s fourth floor (in the seventh corridor of D Ring) the “Office of Special Plans” (OSP) and increase its four-person staff to sixteen.
		Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and Department of Defense General Counsel William Haynes press “for looser interrogation rules and [win] approval for them from the administration’s civilian lawyers....” Lawyers with the Army Judge Advocate General’s office are opposed to the new rules.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=douglas_feith (4900 words)

	Feith May Be Charged With Leaking Intelligence Good Riddance, Douglas Feith
		Feith's former law partner, Marc Zell, an Israeli citizen, is a supporter of the rabid and murderous Israeli settler movement.
		Douglas Feith and the Strausscons are directly responsible for killing 100,000 Iraqis, a crime of Hitlerian dimension.
		If we were not caught in a Bushzarro reality warp, Douglas Feith-and Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, David Wurmser, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Elliott Abrams, to name but a few of the more prominent Strausscons-would be arrested and packed off to the Hague to face prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
	www.rense.com /general62/deith.htm (1241 words)

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		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.
		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.
		Feith went on to non-answer several more questions about why the CIA didn't conduct this terrorism-analysis review and whether there was any pressure from the Pentagon on intelligence analysts ("Who knows what people perceive?") before walking away from the podium.
	www.tnr.com /etc.mhtml?pid=453 (718 words)

	Middle East Information - MEIC Issues and analysis of the Middle East: Conflicts, News, History, Religions and ...
		Operating from this framework, Feith argues that the notion that "the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the issue of the stateless Palestinians" is a clever Arab trap designed solely to weaken Israel by threatening its relationship with the United States and its hold over Judea and Samaria.
		For Feith, Arab objections to Zionism were at the core of the conflict.
		Feith was, therefore, deeply disappointed when Netanyahu appeared to accept the basis of Oslo and sign two additional agreements with the Palestinians that turned more land over to them.
	middleeastinfo.org /article701.html (1808 words)

	Gorilla in the Room: Douglas Feith and Betar
		We know that Douglas Feith was one of the authors of the "Clean Break" paper generated for the Likud party in 1996.
		Feith formed the Office of Special Plans (OSP) which generated the WMD data on Iraq that we now know to be false.
		Dalck Feith was a militant in Betar, a Zionist youth movement founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, an admirer of Mussolini.
	gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com /2005/06/douglas-feith-and-betar.html (1241 words)

	Pentagon's Feith Again at Center of Disaster
		Similarly, it was Feith's office, along with the Defense Policy Group (DPG) whose members Feith appointed, that served as the point of entry and influence for Iraqi National Congress (INC) chief Ahmed Chalabi and his ''defectors'' who provided phony intelligence about Hussein's vast stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
		Feith, who was also interviewed by ABC, denied there was any disagreement from JAG officers concerning rules and practices authorized by his office, but the issue is unlikely to rest with his word alone.
		Feith worked for Perle in the Pentagon under Ronald Reagan, and the two teamed up in the late 1980s to lobby on behalf of the Turkish government and build military ties between Turkey and Israel.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0520-02.htm (1149 words)

	Defense Under Secretary Says China Faces Strategic Crossroads - US Department of State
		Feith said recent successes in managing great-power relationships “are a credit to the flexibility of the state system and vitality of the conflict-averting ‘rules of the road.'” He said the United States, its allies and partners have a vested interest “in fostering an environment in which China comes progressively to share that understanding.”
		Disrupting terrorist networks is not sufficient, he said. The key to victory in the War on Terror, Feith said, is to counter the ideological support for terrorism. “Our goal is not only to deny the terrorists what they need to operate, but ultimately to deny them what they need to survive,” he added.
		That means delegitimizing terrorism, according to Feith, and countering ideological support for terrorists by supporting democracy, sound economics and a healthy civil society “that can compete with the bloody blandishments of the extremists.”
	usinfo.state.gov /eap/Archive/2005/Feb/18-426465.html (1022 words)

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