" 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 ".

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

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.

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.

Feith added that the pilots may have exhibited " get there-itis " as the pilots knew that they were approaching their 14 hour duty limits.

In Hendrik Tollens ( 1780 – 1856 ) some the power of Bilderdijk and the sweetness of Feith were combined.

In February 2007, the Pentagon's inspector general issued a report that concluded that Feith's Office of Special Plans, an office in the Pentagon run by Douglas Feith that was the source of most of the misleading intelligence on al-Qaeda and Iraq, had " developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to senior decision-makers.

* 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.

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

" Feith stated that he " felt vindicated " by the report of the Pentagon inspector general.

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.

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

Feith is one of several Bush Administration officials under consideration for investigation of possible war crimes in a Spanish court, headed by Baltasar Garzón under claims of universal jurisdiction.

* War and Decision: Ford Hall Forum Boston, MA October 23, 2008 a video of a talk by Douglas Feith 1hr and 42min.

* Special Plans: the blogs on Douglas Feith and the faulty intelligence that led to war by Allison Hantschel, Wilsonville, Oregon: William, James & Co., September 2005 ISBN 1-59028-049-0

* A Dangerous Appointment: Profile of Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense under Bush by James J. Zogby, Middle East Information Center, April 18, 2001

* Catholic St. Mary Church ( 1830 ), build by Gottfried Bandhauer, it is one of the most prominent sacral buildings of the 19th century in northern Germany ; organ by Anton Feith ( 1872 – 1929 ); crypt with the sarcophagus of the last reigning duke of Anhalt-Köthen

The layers of the controversy have nonetheless deepened with the revelation that Ayad Allawi, the initial source of the Habbush letter, was at CIA headquarters the week before the letter emerged, and a piece in The American Conservative by Philip Giraldi that claims an " extremely reliable and well placed source in the intelligence community " confirmed that the Vice President's Office was behind the Habbush letter, but that " Doug Feith ’ s Office of Special Plans ", not the CIA, carried out the forgery.

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.

* p521 of War and Decision by Douglas Feith.

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 has long advocated a policy of " peace through strength ".

* Israel's Legitimacy in Law and History Feith, Douglas J., et al.

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.

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.

At Harvard, Feith had studied under Professor Richard Pipes, who joined the Reagan administration's National Security Council in 1981 to help carry out a private intelligence project called Team B that Pipes and his students had conceived.

However, his hiring " caused an uproar among the Foreign Service school faculty ", who lobbed ugly insults at the Law Center faculty and Law Center alumni who had studied with Feith and defended his qualifications to teach at the University.

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.

At the end of the war, Mr. Feith learned that four of his sisters, his three brothers, his mother, and his father had all perished in the Holocaust.

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.

Feith began his career as an attorney in private practice with the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP for 3 years, after which he joined the Reagan Administration ( see previous section ).

Upon leaving the Pentagon, Feith co-founded, with Marc Zell, the Washington, DC law firm of Feith & Zell.

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.

Responding to criticism of a report that linked Al-Qaeda with Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Feith called the office's report a much-needed critique of the CIA's intelligence.

" Feith also rejected accusations he attempted to link Iraq to a formal relationship with Al Qaeda.

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 ).

Van Alphen was an exponent of the more sentimental school along with Rhijnvis Feith ( 1753 – 1824 ), whose romances are steeped in Weltschmerz.

Chalabi set up this " marketing partnership with L. Marc Zell, the former law partner of Douglas J. Feith, the Pentagon ’ s undersecretary for policy.

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

After Douglas Feith left law practice to work at the Pentagon in 2001, Zell partnered with Bernel Goldberg to form Zell, Goldberg & Co with offices in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and affiliate offices in Washington, DC, Russia and Europe.

People with the surname Feith:

* Greg Feith, former Air Safety Investigator with the NTSB