Doug Feith's duplicity...grounds for Qui Tam (Fed. False Claims Act) lawsuit?

If your son or daughter returned from Iraq with their life shattered by permanent debilitating injuries, or, God Forbid, if they did not return from Iraq at all, you must be reading with growing angst of the actions of one Douglas Feith: the Neocon Likudite who --knowingly and intentionally it appears-- seeded patently false information into intelligence reports which induced Congress to support Bush's splendid little war in Iraq.

Qui tam is a provision under the False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq.), which allows for a private individual, or whistleblower with knowledge of past or present fraud on the United States federal government to bring suit on behalf of the government. Its name is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase “qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hoc parte sequitur,” meaning “he who for the king as well as for himself." This provision allows a private person, known as a “relator,” to bring a lawsuit on behalf of the United States, where the private person has information that the named defendant has knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false or fraudulent claims to the United States. The relator need not have been personally harmed by the defendant’s conduct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-9765%28199105%2943%3A5%3C1061%3ATFCAQT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5&size=LARGE

Unlike Wolfowitz, Libby and even Cheney, who generally provided the blustery rhetorical framing for the war, Feith appears to have deliberately sown false information into the Congressional reports, according to the Pentagon's Inspector General:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/A_devastating_condemnation_of_OSP_and_0208.html

Granted, bankrupting Douglas Feith will not begin to compensate you or your family for your losses, but it may, in the fullness of time, convince future public officials to avoid lying to Congress and sending our troops into harm's way to advance their petty, arrogant, and wrongheaded political fantasies.

are a shitload of offenses that fit the definition of the deceit, lies, and subterfuge of these guys.

But also trying to understand the laws and legal grounds for a lawsuit I can never really get passed the fact that they seem to be immune from legal actions due to their positions in the federal government.

When I look at the RICO statutes and see Dick Cheney's name on a number of fantasized indictments. You know that he deserves it. You know that he fits the definitions and requirements. And you know that it will never happen.

are a shitload of offenses that fit the definition of the deceit, lies, and subterfuge of these guys.

But also trying to understand the laws and legal grounds for a lawsuit I can never really get passed the fact that they seem to be immune from legal actions due to their positions in the federal government.

When I look at the RICO statutes and see Dick Cheney's name on a number of fantasized indictments. You know that he deserves it. You know that he fits the definitions and requirements. And you know that it will never happen.

edit: Is this place buggy today or something? I got three different error messages trying to make this post originally.

Joseph Schmitz deserve a closer look.

And Scooter Libby's background in Middle East warplanning deserves a look too.

The plans were there all along, from the '70s, just substitute "Iraq" for "Saudi Arabia" in this article

Document reveals Nixon plan to seize Arab oil fields
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/02/MNG8G427D61.DTL

I can live with that while he waits for trial in the Hague.

Since his work while at the pentagon was fradulent you might be able to collect on the salary paid to him during that time.

Qui Tam usually provides for triple damages...

Unfortunately, this is now public knowledge and as su ch would not qualify for Qui Tam. A Qui Tam law suite requires knowledge that is not generally available to the public.