Feith is one of the main conduits that connect the CIA Leak Investigation and the AIPAC/Franklin Spy case. All the same story.
PS: Feith is the guy who in the wake of 9/11 suggested attacking a South American country. How a nut like this ever got close to the Pentagon is beyond me.
Senate asks Pentagon to probe Feith role on Iraq
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's inspector general has been asked to investigate the prewar intelligence role of a planning office headed by former U.S. defense policy chief Douglas Feith, a main architect of the Iraq war, officials said on Tuesday.
The request was made by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in a letter sent in August.
It said the Defense Department should determine whether Feith and his Office of Special Plans wielded excessive influence over intelligence that claimed Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The threat of such weapons, which have never been found in Iraq, was cited as a main justification for President George W. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003...
...Some lawmakers also believe Feith bypassed the CIA to provide uncorroborated intelligence directly to the White House, including information from Ahmad Chalabi, the discredited Iraqi politician and former exile leader who is visiting Washington this week.
Feith, who left the Pentagon earlier this year, has also been blamed for overseeing what is widely considered to have been inadequate postwar planning in Iraq, which is now gripped by a bloody insurgency...http://tinyurl.com/bglyo
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PS: Feith is the guy who in the wake of 9/11 suggested attacking a South American country. How a nut like this ever got close to the Pentagon is beyond me.
Senate asks Pentagon to probe Feith role on Iraq
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's inspector general has been asked to investigate the prewar intelligence role of a planning office headed by former U.S. defense policy chief Douglas Feith, a main architect of the Iraq war, officials said on Tuesday.
The request was made by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in a letter sent in August.
It said the Defense Department should determine whether Feith and his Office of Special Plans wielded excessive influence over intelligence that claimed Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The threat of such weapons, which have never been found in Iraq, was cited as a main justification for President George W. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003...
...Some lawmakers also believe Feith bypassed the CIA to provide uncorroborated intelligence directly to the White House, including information from Ahmad Chalabi, the discredited Iraqi politician and former exile leader who is visiting Washington this week.
Feith, who left the Pentagon earlier this year, has also been blamed for overseeing what is widely considered to have been inadequate postwar planning in Iraq, which is now gripped by a bloody insurgency...http://tinyurl.com/bglyo
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