The War Pimp ... by Karen Kwiatkowski

[RedEarth]

LRC columnist Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D. , a retired USAF lieutenant colonel, has written on defense issues with a libertarian perspective for MilitaryWeek.com, hosted the call-in radio show American Forum, and blogs occasionally for Huffingtonpost.com and Liberty and Power

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The War Pimp

The DoD Inspector General, after over fourteen months of diligent and surely difficult investigation, has concluded that the Office of Special Plans, and Doug Feith as Under Secretary for Policy,

…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 committee and… presented these to senior decision makers.

I’m happy to say it didn’t take me fourteen months to figure that out. I’m happy to say that it didn’t take most of us who worked in the Under Secretariat for Defense Policy, Near East and South Asia directorate fourteen months to figure it out. We saw the CIA and DIA intelligence, we understood the region, and we watched Doug Feith, Abe Shulsky, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Ahmad Chalabi, Bill Luti and a handful of others in and around the upper echelons of the Pentagon create a preferred alternate universe, and then foist it on an unsuspecting country.

We knew Scooter before the world did.

Doug Feith retired a year and a half ago – and has been quietly embarrassing Georgetown ever since. Now he’s back in the news, sputtering and whining and becoming really quite angry.

Here’s what he says now:

We weren’t creating alternative intelligence, we were just "criticizing" the CIA. Isn’t that a good thing?

The CIA had it wrong anyway, so what’s the problem?

It wasn’t illegal, according to the IG report….

It’s not a crime, it’s just criticism.

The government should be doing more of it, and it is misguided …that intelligence people should not be allowed to raise questions about – policy people should not be allowed to raise questions about intelligence.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski174.html

[Mr Rabble]

1. Kick for Karen.