Douglas Feith

Doug Feith
Official portrait, 2001
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
In office
July 16, 2001 – August 8, 2005
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byWalter B. Slocombe
Succeeded byEric S. Edelman
Personal details
Born (1953-07-16) July 16, 1953 (age 70)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Georgetown University (JD)

Douglas Jay Feith (/ˈfθ/; born July 16, 1953) served as the under secretary of Defense for Policy for United States president George W. Bush, from July 2001 until August 2005. He is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank.

Feith has been described as an architect of the Iraq War.[1][2] In the lead up to the war, he played a key role in promoting the claim that the Saddam Hussein regime had an operational relationship with al-Qaeda (even though there was scant credible evidence of such a relationship at the time). A Pentagon Inspector General report found that Feith's office 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."[3][4]

  1. ^ "Feith Regrets Not Pushing 'Law and Order' in Iraq". NPR. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  2. ^ DeParle, Jason (May 25, 2006). "Faculty's Chilly Welcome for Ex-Pentagon Official". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference washingtonpost2007 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Landay, Jonathan S. "Pentagon office produced 'alternative' intelligence on Iraq". McClatchy DC. Retrieved April 21, 2019.

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