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Douglas Feith? The Office of Special Plans?
This book lays out the backstory of the intelligence used
to justify the War in Iraq. Featuring the blogging of Americablog.com,
Bad Attitudes, The Crisis Papers, Daily Kos, and many others.
Selected and with an introductory essay by Allison Hantschel,
Athenae of First Draft.
Here’s a story of espionage, think
tanks, power brokers, and Douglas Feith—the Undersecretary
of Defense for Policy whose Office of Special Plans oversaw
the enormous manipulations and failures of intelligence that
led to the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq.
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“Special Plans offers invaluable
insight into a key figure behind the propaganda campaign
that swayed Americans to support Bush’s Iraq War.
Douglas Feith didn’t get much coverage in the mainstream
press because he was ‘just’ an undersecretary
in the Defense Department. But this collection of blog
entries about Feith reveals that he was much, much more
than that. This book is a testament to the fact that the
new Internet media delivers needed information that the
mainstream press no longer covers in detail.”
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—Mark Karlin, Editor
and Publisher
BuzzFlash.com
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“If you wonder how we got into
this mess, this book gives you the answer by following
the career of the man Tommy Franks called, “The dumbest
[expletive] guy on the planet.” The editor has pulled
together some of the most informative and entertaining
writing of the past five years to track the central role
of Douglas Feith, a bureaucrat whose stunning ineptitude
is a microcosm of the greater global incompetence of the
Bush administration.”
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—David Terrenoire,
author of Beneath a Panamanian Moon
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