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Doug Feith Gets an Earful on The Daily Show watch!

hoffmania.com — Doug Feith decided it would sell some books if he dropped by The Daily Show, which he did tonight. He ended up getting very effectively and very powerfully dressed down by Jon Stewart for the disinformation campaign they waged against the public in the run-up to the war. An instant epic. See the uncut interview here.

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  • Bagos1, on 05/13/2008, -3/+20Feith is trying to escape responsibility for the atrocity he helped engineer.
    • elemming, on 05/13/2008, -1/+8I was impressed with how restrained Jon was with the guy called "the stupidest idiot on the planet" by an Army general. Feith was spewing pure disinformation and BS and delusions.
  • MarkusGarvey, on 05/13/2008, -3/+17Jon Stewart..YOU ***** RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • americangoy, on 05/13/2008, -3/+8My favorite Jew :-)
    • 911ArtStudent, on 05/13/2008, -3/+9People who don't know who Feith is probably can't appreciate how polite Stewart was being to someone he probably despised. I only wish someone like Scott Ritter could interview him. He would tear Feith's flimsy and deceitful arguments into shreds. There is NO evidence that Hussein was perceived as a gathering danger or looming threat. They knew Saddam was hobbled and that the invasion would be a walkover (cakewalk?). Stewart indulged Feith far more than I would have liked but this will likely be the most hard-hitting interview Feith will have consented to.

      On a side note, Feith is one of the few Jews I actually despise; my favorite Jew is either Norman Finkelstein or Philip Weiss.
      • quesi, on 05/13/2008, -4/+7no props at all for Jon Stewart? he ain't that bad...
        • quesi, on 05/13/2008, -1/+1although, after thinking a bit - he could have mentioned Rebuilding Americas Defenses or A Clean Break and made this guy stammer all over the place. He's still ok, but maybe a surprise here and there would have been a good idea.
  • yellowcakewalk, on 05/13/2008, -4/+16More about Israeli spies Douglas Feith and Richard Perle
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-dNjrVhc2U
  • 911ArtStudent, on 05/13/2008, -3/+13Former high ranking CIA officers Philip Giraldi, Ray MacGovern, and Michael Scheuer have confirmed that internal CIA assesments which were leaked to media that claimed that Feith was viewed as an "agent of influence" for Israel are i n fact correct. Wayne Madsen and Sibel Edmonds have reported that there was a backlash from the career civil servants in the FBI, NSA and CIA when Feith and Wolfowitz were given high-ranking civilian oversight roles in the Pentagon. The career civil servants formally complained and asked these appointments be withdrawn. Seymour Hersh has written an article called "the Stovepipe" which describes how bogus intelligence from Israel was used to amplify and distort the threat posed by Iraq in order to build a case for war.

    You can read about Feith, Wolfowitz, and Ledeen's treachery here:
    "Ten years prior to writing the Commentary piece, Feith had made such a decision on his own. At the time, March of 1972, Feith was a Middle East analyst in the Near East and South Asian Affairs section of the National Security Council. Two months before, in January, Judge William Clark had replaced Richard Allen as National Security Advisor, with the intention to clean house. A total of nine NSC staff members were fired, including Feith, who'd only been with the NSC for a year. But Feith was fired because he'd been the object of an inquiry into whether he'd provided classified material to an official of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. The FBI had opened the inquiry. And Clark, who had served in U.S. Army counterintelligence in the 1950's, took such matters very seriously.....more seriously, apparently, than had Richard Allen.

    Feith did not remain unemployed for long, however. Richard Perle, who was in 1982 serving in the Pentagon as Assistant secretary for International Security Policy, hired him on the spot as his "Special Counsel," and then as his Deputy. Feith worked at ISP until 1986, when he left government service to form a small but influential law firm, then based in Israel.

    In 2001, Douglas Feith returned to DoD as Donald Rumsfeld's Undersecretary for Policy, and it was in his office that "OSP", the Office of Special Plans, was created. It was OSP that originated--some say from whole cloth--much of the intelligence that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have used to justify the attack on Iraq, to miss-plan the post-war reconstruction there, and then to point an accusing finger at Iran and Syria.....all to the absolute delight of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon."
    http://www.counterpunch.org/green02282004.html
    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041004/dreyfuss


  • SteveMTyler, on 05/13/2008, -1/+10I wish they would end this stupid ***** with Canadians not being able to watch clips
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