"F*@king Stupidest Guy On The Face Of The Earth"
The above quote was what fellow fuckup of the Afghan War and Eye-Rack invasion General Tommy Frank said about former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith as reported by the weathervane journalist Bob Woodward in his hagiographic book Plan of Attack.
Today, Walter Pincus, one of the few reporter who didn't have a thumb up his ass during the run-up to the war, reports that the same Douglas Feith, the one who was running a parallel intelligence gathering operation out of the Pentagon, "the stovepipe", for the express purpose of finding ANY kind of information to justify the war, whether it's real or not, is now saying that he never actually believed any of the bullshit that was bubbling up:
Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence community, according to a report by the Pentagon's inspector general.Feith's office "was predisposed to finding a significant relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda," according to portions of the report, released yesterday by Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.). The inspector general described Feith's activities as "an alternative intelligence assessment process."
. . .In a telephone interview yesterday, Feith emphasized the inspector general's conclusion that his actions, described in the report as "inappropriate," were not unlawful. "This was not 'alternative intelligence assessment,' " he said. "It was from the start a criticism of the consensus of the intelligence community, and in presenting it I was not endorsing its substance."
Someone put some handcuffs on these criminals please. It's embarrassing that they are breathing outside air.
Update: Marty Kaplan has it exactly right on Big Media's priorities concerning the Bush Administration lying their way into an unwinnable war:
If Doug Feith looked like Courtney Love's bad dream of Marilyn Monroe, would the cable "news" networks clear their schedules when evidence of his manipulation of pre-war intelligence hit the wires? If "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth," as Gen. Tommy Franks called Feith, were a now-dead Playmate, would Wolf go wall-to-wall with the story of the neocon Fifth Column within the Pentagon?What would it take for "Today" to pay as much attention to the silent coup that lied us into Iraq -- Wolfowitz in a platinum wig? Perle in a paternity suit? Cheney in methadone rehab a diaper? MSM: RIP.