Feith, Douglas

Name: Douglas Feith

Born: July 16, 1953,  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Profession: Attorney

GW Bush Administration Position:

• Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.
• Spearheaded Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans at Pentagon.

War crime charge(s):

• Crime against peace – planning and carrying out a war of aggression.
• Spearheaded two secretive groups at the Pentagon — the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans — that were instrumental in drawing up documents that explained the supposed ties between Saddam and al Qaeda.

Primary Association:

• Director of the Center for National Security Strategies
• Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
  Washington, D.C. Headquarters
  1015 15th Street, N.W.
6th Floor
  Washington, DC 20005
  Phone: 202.974.2400
  Fax: 202.974.2410
  Email: info@hudson.org

Excellent biography page on Feith by The Center for Torture Accountability.

Additional Information:

• Feith Dares Obama to Enforce the Law
• Doug Feith: “I was a major player”
• Feith & Academic Freedom at Harvard:  Feith was Adjunct Visiting Scholar, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government during the 2008-2009 academic year.
• 9-29-09 Profile: Jay S. Bybee
• 3/19/23 20 Years After Illegal US Invasion of Iraq, Its Architects Are Still Cashing In

Note:

“Think of Iraq as being like a computer. And think of Saddam as like a processor. We just take out the old processor, and put in a new one–Chalabi¹.”

¹_{http://www.juancole.com/2007/02/3-month-record-for-us-troops-killed.html}