Douglas Feith

'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies

Coleen Rowley | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

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Coleen Rowley

By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern, originally posted on Consortiumnews.com on July 19, 2008. One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcro...

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Douglas Feith On Torture: "Some People Do Bad Things"

Washington Independent | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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At a hearing about interrogation techniques in Guantanamo, the former Under Secretary of Defense explains away abuse: After going back and forth wit...

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Neocons Busy Rewriting History On Iraq

Washington Independent | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Ever since the Rumsfeld era at the Pentagon ended abruptly in the aftermath of the Democratic victory in the 2006 mid-term elections, the civilian haw...

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Feith Scared To Testify At Torture Hearing

Think Progress | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

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Today, the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Rights held a hearing on abusive interrogation to look at the role of administra...

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The Big Story You May Have Missed During the Obama v. Clinton Finale

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

The Senate Intelligence Committee's 200-page "Phase II" report on how the White House used -- and abused -- pre-war intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq is a stinging rebuke.

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The "I Didn't Do It" Letter

Mary Lyon | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

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Mary Lyon

Scott McClellan's new confessional that's pointed the finger at Bush administration figures in the Valerie Plame scandal reminds me of something my hu...

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Iraq War Architect Doug Feith: "What We Found In Iraq Was A Serious WMD Threat"

Think Progress | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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Yesterday, Iraq War architect Douglas Feith spoke to the National Press Club to promote his book, "War and Decision," and its revisionist description ...

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Jon Stewart Interviews Douglas Feith

Huffington Post | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

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Have you ever wanted someone to ask Douglas Feith real questions. You remember, Feith, the Undersecretary of Defense under Rumsfeld and architect of ...

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How Douglas Feith and William Safire Transformed an Elvis Sighting Into a Case for War

David Fiderer | Posted 04.08.2008 | Media

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David Fiderer

Like Feith, Safire kept shifting around facts and pronouns like some elaborate three card monte in order to give the illusion that "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

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Why Our Feith-Based Iraqi Policy Failed

Lionel Beehner | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Lionel Beehner

Only in the field of foreign policy can someone have so disastrous a record and be showered with medals, professorships, and endowed chairs at prestigious think tanks.

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Vanity Fair: Senior Bush Advisers Pressured Underlings To Use Torture Tactics At Guantanamo

Vanity Fair | Phillippe Sands | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home

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The abuse, rising to the level of torture, of those captured and detained in the war on terror is a defining feature of the presidency of George W. Bu...

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Architect Of Iraq War Strategy Blames Powell In New Memoir

Washington Post | Thomas E. Ricks and Karen DeYoung | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics

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In the first insider account of Pentagon decision-making on Iraq, one of the key architects of the war blasts former secretary of state Colin Powell, ...

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Jewish Neocons Are Dead Wrong, Not Disloyal

Dan Fleshler | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics

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Dan Fleshler

Douglas Feith, Cheney aide David Wurmser and other Jewish war planners have gotten a raw deal from those who accuse them of putting Israel's interests ahead of America's.

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