Here, read all about Doug Feith, agent of Israel. His assistant, Larry Franklin, has been convicted and sentenced to twelve years. Feith is still under investigation, and has left the chimpistration. ( He's hardly the ONLY one in the Bush admin.):
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"1982 NSC Alleged Firing and Security Clearance Controversy
It has been alleged by Former NSC Intelligence Director Vincent Cannistraro and author Stephen Green that Douglas Feith involuntarily left the NSC in March, 1982 and lost his security clearance after he fell under suspicion of the FBI for passing classified material to Israeli embassy officials who were not entitled to receive it. [31][32][33] This would have required the Bush administration to reissue Feith his clearance before bringing him into the Pentagon. [34] This version of events is disputed by the NSC head at the time, Judge William Clark. When a Montana newspaper reported this accusation, Clark, who was President Reagan's National Security Adviser at the relevant time, wrote a September 22, 2005 letter to the editor [35] to correct the record: "Your article cites a Mr. Cannistraro to the effect that Mr. Feith was fired for wrongdoing from President Reagan's National Security Council in 1982. I was President Reagan's National Security Advisor at the time and I tell you that is untrue. Mr. Feith served honorably on my staff and went on to serve well at the Pentagon under Secretary Cap Weinberger. Because of his fine record, President George W. Bush hired him as his Under Secretary of Defense for Policy."
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Feith and The Office of Special Plans
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Feith at Office of Special Plans
Feith led the controversial Office of Special Plans at the Pentagon from September 2002 to June of 2003. [36] This now defunct intelligence gathering unit has been accused of manipulating intelligence to bolster support for the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. [37] According to the British newspaper, The Guardian, "This rightwing intelligence network [was] set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force."[38] According to Feith's former deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, the Office of Special Plans was "a propaganda shop" and she personally "witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to both Congress and the executive office of the president." [39] [40]
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Actions Feith Authorized at Office of Special Plans Concerning Iraq
A source of Iraqi WMD intelligence was overseas "back-channel" meetings with foreign citizens, which Feith authorized. [41] According to Newsday and The Boston Globe, these foreigners included former Iran-Contra figures [42] and agents of Iraqi politician, Ahmad Chalabi [43] who were shopping [44] WMD [45] intelligence to the Office of Special Plans. [46]. As Feith's former deputy described, this unvetted WMD information was then "stove-piped" to the White House outside of established intelligence review safeguards for use in building support for the war.[47] Post invasion, the Iraq Survey Group found Iraq had no stocks of WMD, and had not produced WMD since 1991.[48]
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Actions Feith Authorized at Office of Special Plans Concerning Iran
The "back-channel" meetings Feith authorized dealt not only with Iraq, but also with Iran. When then Secretary of State Colin Powell learned that Feith was authorizing secret meetings with former Iran-Contra figures such as arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar to investigate options for regime change in Iran, he angrily complained on August 9th, 2003 directly to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice about Feith conducting unauthorized missions that were contrary to official U.S. policy. A senior Administration official said the US Government had learned about the unauthorised talks "accidentally," and that it was unsettling "the government hadn't learnt the lessons of last time around," referring to the secret contacts and rogue operations that led to Iran-Contra. [49] Feith's authorization of contact with Manucher Ghorbanifar was also controversial because the CIA determined in 1984 that Ghorbanifar "should be regarded as an intelligence fabricator," and put him under a Burn Notice, warning other intelligence agencies not to use him. [50]
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Investigations of Office of Special Plans and Feith
Officially, Feith is currently under investigation by the Pentagon's Inspector General and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).[51] Republican Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts began the investigation when he wrote to the Pentagon Inspector General asking him to start the review: “The Committee is concerned about persistent and, to date, unsubstantiated allegations that there was something unlawful or improper about the activities of the Office of Special Plans within the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. . . . I have not discovered any credible evidence of unlawful or improper activity, yet the allegations persist.” In an attempt to lay these allegations to rest once and for all, he requested the Inspector General to “initiate an investigation into the activities of the Office of Special Plans during the period prior to the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom to determine whether any of [its] activities were unlawful or improper; . . . [that is,] whether the personnel assigned to the Office of Special Plans, at any time, conducted unauthorized, unlawful, or inappropriate intelligence activities.” Senator Levin has asked the Inspector General to look at the activities of the OUSDP generally, and not just the OSP. The SSCI is awaiting the outcome of the DOD Inspector General’s review." [52] Sources within the SSCI report Feith and the Defense Department have been less than helpful to their investigation. [53]
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Subordinate's Involvement in the AIPAC Espionage Scandal
A subordinate of Douglas Feith, Larry Franklin, was convicted, and sentenced to 12 years in Federal prison in 2005 for charges in the AIPAC espionage scandal. Larry Franklin was accused, and convicted, of passing classified information to an Israeli diplomat and Steven Rosen, an employee of the Israeli AIPAC lobby. The ongoing FBI counter-espionage probe into improper transmission of classified information to AIPAC from 1999 to shortly before the 2003 Iraq Invasion could involve Feith [54], who refuses to comment on the investigation. [55] Franklin was one of 1,500 [56] employees at Feith's Pentagon office, and officially worked six layers of bureaucracy beneath Feith. However, while leading the Office of Special Plans Feith used Larry Franklin repeatedly for sensitive meetings involving foreign citizens, overseas. [57]" |
