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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran

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To: steve kammerer who wrote (5674)8/28/2004 12:47:55 AM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
Looks like Doug Feith is letting one of his lackeys take the punishment. Interesting to see the OSP mentioned in a mainstream news story!

<<< ... The officials refused to identify the Pentagon employee who is under investigation, but said the person works in the office of Douglas J. Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy at the Pentagon.

Feith is a key aide to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, working on sensitive policy issues including U.S. policy toward Iraq and Iran. There are slightly more than a handful of people in Feith's office who specifically work on Iranian issues.

The investigation centers on whether the employee in Feith's office passed secrets about Bush administration policy toward Iran to the main pro-Israeli lobbying group in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which then allegedly gave them to the Israeli government, one official said.

Feith also oversaw the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, which critics said fed policymakers uncorroborated prewar intelligence on Iraq. Pentagon officials have said the office was a small operation that provided fresh analysis on existing intelligence ... >>>

story.news.yahoo.com

"Critics said"? Wrong. It is known that the OSP passed along uncorroborated info. Critics have additionally said that the OSP passed the info without caring if it was true (and probably fabricating some of it) because they felt it was in the interests of Israel.

Tom
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