Pentagon (Rumsfeld) agrees to probe Feith's role in Iraq intel

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17307877.htm

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Pentagon's inspector general has agreed to review the prewar intelligence activities of former U.S. defense undersecretary Douglas Feith, a main architect of the Iraq war, congressional officials said on Thursday.

News of the Defense Department probe comes at a time of bitter political debate over whether President George W. Bush misled the American people with prewar intelligence. The increasingly biter dispute has pitted the president and his top advisers against lawmakers including some from Bush's own Republican Party.

Democrats have accused Feith of manipulating information from sources including discredited Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi to suggest links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, which masterminded the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Bush and other top administration officials cited alleged ties between Iraq and al Qaeda as a justification for military action. But the Sept. 11 commission later reported that no collaborative relationship existed between the two.

Feith is known for a 1996 paper he co-authored and presented to President Clinton advocating the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The letter was also signed by Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and others. http://www.thedubyareport.com/iraq2.html

Rumsfeld would do better to probe his own ass.

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Feathers fly at 6:00. Stay tuned

Once again, the Bushistas investigating themselves. I'm sure we will get the straight scoop from an internal investigation inside the Pentagon. Then Rumsfeld can concoct a whole new mess of lies and call the investigation over and done with and accuse the Dems and the rest of America of being unpatriotic and "irresponsible".