Posted by
84rules on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:29:43 AM
So, who exactly is Doug Feith? Read this excerpt from Flopping Aces to bring yourself up to speed:
| The
Department of Defense had been asked by Democrats in Congress to see if
Feith and/or his office had done anything illegal in their
investigation and reports regarding the depth of ties between Al Queda
and Saddam Hussein’s regime. The Department of Defense’s interim
Inspector General said essentially that Feith and his office had acted
inappropriately by giving the impression that they were an intelligence
agency, but that they had not acted illegally. He was innocent of the
charges made by Congressional Democrats and opponents of the war in
Iraq. Both groups of
accusers had claimed that Feith and his office had manipulated,
cherry-picked, and otherwise distorted real intelligence reports to
form conclusions that were not real, and that those conclusions were
then used to mislead the Bush Administration and/or Congress via claims
from the Bush Administration. |
And
both groups of accusers were wrong. Moreover, both groups did what they
accused Doug Feith of doing and they had help from the left-leaning
media:
| After
jumping to the conclusions sections, Congressional Democrats
cherry-pick the conclusions to form political talking points. Opponents
of the war always distort the findings to make argumentative claims
that the war in Iraq wasn’t necessary and/or that if the US just leaves
things will be better than they are today. Lastly, members of the media
have jobs to do, and since scandal sells they tend to write articles
that sound more scandalous than they really are, and the investigation
into Feith is perhaps the greatest example of lazy, uninformed, faux
journalism around. Congressional
Democrats are politicians, and almost always lawyers. That alone is not
a resume´ that compels trust, yet they get it when they demand and
demand and demand investigations. Opponents of the war who distort the
findings of these investigations for mere argumentative sake are simply
fools who are often too lazy to read the investigation in their full
and cannot stomach the tragedy with which they reveal. We expect such
things from those who clearly have agendas to serve by distortion, but
shouldn’t we expect more from news media? |
Yes,
we should. That is why people like me serve to bring people like you an
undistorted view of reality and more importantly, show you sides of the
stories that the leftist media and liberal Dems will not show. Like the
following:
| This
week, Senator Levin who had claimed Feith and his office acted
illegally finally released a censored version of the Inspector
General’s investigation into Feith and his office-the investigation
that determined claims made by Senator Levin, other Congressional
Democrats, and opponents of the war in Iraq were all incorrect and
without merit. The following day, several reporters skimmed the report.
Some just jumped to the conclusions sections. Then they wrote their
articles-not opinion editorials, but articles reporting on the findings
of the investigation. Did they report that Feith was not found guilty
of committing a crime? No. Did they report that the claims made against
him and his office were found to be without merit, or that the demands
for investigation were based more on political distraction than
reality? No. Instead, respected publications chose not to point out
that there was no criminal wrong-doing, and we were given headlines
like: “Pentagon probe fills in blanks on Iraq war groundwork”
By Peter Spiegel, Times Staff Writer “Hussein's Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted”
By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post “Pentagon report debunks prewar Iraq-Al Qaeda connection”
By Jesse Nunes | csmonitor.com “Hussein-Qaeda Link ‘Inappropriate,’ Report Says “
By BLOOMBERG NEWS In
all these cases, the headlines suggest that there’s been an
investigation to determine the depth of the relationship between
Saddam’s regime and Al Queda, and that this fictional investigation has
determined there was no relationship at all. That’s not what the Feith
investigation was about. In fact, most of the things that Feith and his
office claimed later turned out to be true. |
There are two reports on the Internet about this case. You can access them here:
Review Of The Pre-Iraqi War Activities Of The Office Of the Under Secretary Of Defense for Policy
Deputy Inspector General For Intelligence
via Federation of American Scientists
February 9, 2007
Independent
Rebuttal Report Regarding The SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ON
POSTWAR FINDINGS ABOUT IRAQ’S WMD PROGRAMS AND LINKS TO TERRORISM AND
HOW THEY COMPARE WITH PREWAR ASSESSMENTS
Compiled by Scott Malensek
ScottMalensek.com
And you can access the blog entry from Flopping Aces here:
Doug Feith Found INNOCENT-Pentagon Inspector General
Scott Malensek
Flopping Aces
April 7, 2007