In the same year Perle, who was an assistant secretary for international security policy in President Reagan ’ s defense department hired and promoted Douglas Feith after he had been fired from his position as a Middle East analyst at the National Security Council.

Later it was found out that Feith was fired due to an FBI investigation suspecting that he had distributed confidential materials to an Israeli embassy official.

With the right connections and support of his close allies Wolfowitz and Perle, Feith was able to attain the position of undersecretary for policy in the Pentagon in 2001 of which he resigned in 2005.

This friendship was mutually beneficial for both Perle and Feith who used their overlapping positions of power to help promote the other and bail each other out of trouble.

Perle is nonetheless an inspiration and mentor to Feith who describes him as a “ godfather ” and trusts that “ He would actively work to help anybody he had worked with and liked and admired and who he thought was useful to the overall cause of U. S. national security as he saw it .” Both Wolfowitz and Feith would eventually join forces and work closely together to promote the War in Iraq after 9 / 11.

Feith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was one of three siblings born to Rose and Dalck Feith.

Feith was criticized during the first term of the Bush administration for creating the Office of Strategic Influence. This department came into existence to help with the War on Terror.

" No one in my office ever claimed there was an operational relationship ", Feith said.

Feith, was the first senior Pentagon official to leave the administration after Bush was re-elected.

There was some speculation when Feith announced he was leaving as to why he was stepping down.

Following his government service, Feith was employed by the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he taught a course on the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policy.

In 1998, Feith was one of a number of U. S. officials who signed an open letter to President Bill Clinton calling for the United States to oust Saddam Hussein.

Feith was part of a group of former national security officials in the 1990s who supported Ahmad Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress and encouraged the U. S. Congress to pass the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.

According to the report, Feith was one of the people who participated in roundtable discussions that produced ideas that the report reflects.

Feith pointed out in a September 16, 2004 letter to the editor of the Washington Post that he was not the co-author and did not clear the report's final text.

Feith was one of the eighteen founding members of the organization One Jerusalem to oppose the Oslo peace agreement.

Feith was interviewed by the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes in a segment that was aired on April 6, 2008.

Douglas J. Feith ( born July 16, 1953 ) served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for United States President George W. Bush from July 2001 until August 2005.

* Douglas Feith biography, from The Jewish Virtual Library

The Office of Special Plans ( OSP ), which existed from September 2002 to June 2003, was a Pentagon unit created by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, and headed by Feith, as charged by then-United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to supply senior George W. Bush administration officials with raw intelligence ( unvetted by intelligence analysts, see Stovepiping ) pertaining to Iraq.

" He also acknowledged that after " repeated inquiries from the Feith office " he put a disclaimer on NSA intelligence assessments of Iraq / al-Qaeda contacts.

On 21 – 22 November 1971, five pupils from Ainslie Park High School in Edinburgh and a trainee instructor from Newcastle-under-Lyme died in a blizzard at Feith Buidhe on the Cairn Gorm plateau.

with Douglas Feith, who served later as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy from 2001-2005.

As a dean at Georgetown University, Gallucci recommended conservative Douglas J. Feith to a 2-year faculty position which Feith occupied in the fall of 2006, a move which generated protests from some liberal faculty and students.

In addition, many of the raw intelligence reports came to the awareness of the public through the leaking of a memo sent from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the conclusions of which have been disputed by intelligence agencies including the CIA.

Feith ’ s view of the relationship between Saddam and Osama differed from the official view of the intelligence community.

In October 2003, Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy and head of the controversial Office of Special Plans, sent a memo to Congress that included " a classified annex containing a list and description of the requested reports, so that the committee could obtain the reports from the relevant members of the intelligence community ... The classified annex was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions.

" American war policy architect Douglas J. Feith argued that the sanctions diminished Iraq militarily while scholars George A. Lopez and David Cortright credit sanctions with compelling Iraq to accept inspections and monitoring ; winning concessions from Baghdad on political issue such as the border dispute with Kuwait ; preventing the rebuilding of Iraqi defenses after the Persian Gulf War ; and blocking the import of vital materials and technologies for producing weapons of mass destruction ".

His major source was a leaked memo from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to the U. S. Congress on 27 October 2003.

" He said that he broadly accepted the Feith report, despite the inclusion of " old " and " raw " pieces of intelligence, because " most of the report tracks with what Tenet has said publicly " ( the CIA director George Tenet ).

Larry Franklin, an analyst and Iran expert in the Feith office, has been charged with espionage, as part of a larger FBI investigation ( see Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal ).

The story reported that the FBI had uncovered a spy working as a policy analyst under Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.

* Douglas Feith ( born 1953 ), former US official, son of Dalck

* 1953 – Douglas J. Feith, American politician

* February 20, 2002: After discussions on the purpose of the Office in the US media, Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, assures the public in an interview that Defense Department officials will not undermine the credibility of US institutions by lying to the public, and states that the exact mandate of the office is under review.

* February 26, 2002: Rumsfeld announces the decision by Douglas Feith to close the Office of Strategic Influence.

Several streams, the Dhiver, Feith Bhait, Meoir Veannaich, Cock Burn and the Allt nan Aighean merge to form the embryonic Don.

He has been aided by other prominent neoconservatives, including Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith.

In 1996 during the Clinton administration, Perle lead a study group with Douglas Feith and David Wurmser who produced a report on balancing power in the Middle East, specifically in Israel ’ s favor.

JINSA's advisory board includes such notable figures as Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and R. James Woolsey, while Vice President Dick Cheney, former U. S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton, and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith were all on JINSA's Board of Advisors before they entered the Bush administration.

* Douglas J. Feith

In addition to Richard Perle, neoconservatives Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Charles Horner, and Douglas Feith were former Democratic aides to Jackson who, disillusioned with the Carter administration, supported Ronald Reagan and joined his administration in 1981, later becoming prominent foreign policy makers in the 21st-century Bush administration.