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Mnpaul

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37. Office of Special Plans

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 09:52 PM

Oct 2014

Feith was criticized during the first term of the Bush administration for creating the Office of Strategic Influence. This office came into existence to support the War on Terror. The office's aim was to influence policymakers by submitting biased news stories into the foreign media.

Feith played a significant role in the buildup to the Iraq war. As part of his portfolio, he supervised the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, a group of policy and intelligence analysts created to provide senior government officials with raw intelligence, unvetted by the intelligence community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_J._Feith

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CORRECTION: US Did Find Chemical Weapons in Iraq... The Ones They Sent There [View all] Octafish Oct 2014 OP

just read the article gabeana Oct 2014 #1

Perhaps the institutional memory at NYT is defective. Octafish Oct 2014 #3

I didn't make a new Facebook friend sharp_stick Oct 2014 #2

Lots of chemicals. Rumsfeld was a private citizen on a public errand for Reagan cough Bush... Octafish Oct 2014 #6

A small correction Mnpaul Oct 2014 #27

That was actually my favorite joke/riddle from 2003-2004 Proud Public Servant Oct 2014 #4

Absolutely. As a Sales Rep for War Inc., Donald Rumsfeld is Death's Henchman. Octafish Oct 2014 #13

Business Week 2002 A US gift to Iraq Deadly viruses madfloridian Oct 2014 #5

..."It was a very innocent request, which we were obligated to fulfill," recalls Monath. Octafish Oct 2014 #14

We always knew this. Baitball Blogger Oct 2014 #7

Which makes the New York Times failure to publish all the more grievous. Octafish Oct 2014 #8

Someone should counter their revisionism with an op that provides facts. Baitball Blogger Oct 2014 #9

War is just another form of corporate socialism. CJCRANE Oct 2014 #24

Yep. K&R. Rummy's pal Doug Feith is cited in another overlooked article from December 1986, Sir. bobthedrummer Oct 2014 #10

Generals don't call Feith the dumbest fucking guy on the planet for nothing. Octafish Oct 2014 #16

Yet that "dumbest fucking guy" Feith set up the Office of Special Plans with Paul Wolfowitz, which bobthedrummer Oct 2014 #19

If I remember correctly Mnpaul Oct 2014 #28

The Niger memo is notorious for many reasons, it was a fabrication used along with other lies to in- bobthedrummer Oct 2014 #33

Office of Special Plans Mnpaul Oct 2014 #37

The Office of Strategic Influence/OSI was headed by former USAF Brig. Gen. Simon Peter Worden bobthedrummer Oct 2014 #38

Ding ding we have a winner malaise Oct 2014 #11

Remember John KOKAL. Octafish Oct 2014 #20

K & R !!! WillyT Oct 2014 #12

Indeed, Sir: Pretending This Is Some 'New Information' Is A Sick Joke The Magistrate Oct 2014 #15

True, Sir. The new angle is how it will help justify further warmongering via ISIS... Octafish Oct 2014 #25

Trying To Use Derelict Chemical Munitions, Sir, Is Pretty Much A Self-Correcting Problem The Magistrate Oct 2014 #26

The Bush Administration had quite a fantasy program going... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2014 #17

The Real World. Octafish Oct 2014 #39

Don't you just love suicides where the body has been moved? Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2014 #40

Octafish, I found 2 more articles from 2002 from USA Today. madfloridian Oct 2014 #18

You mean George W Bush would not say the unvarnished, whole truth about something? Tell us all about blkmusclmachine Oct 2014 #21

Thats why they were so adamant about being able to find them madokie Oct 2014 #22

Octafish Diclotican Oct 2014 #23

I think I would get a lot more sleep if you didn't keep posting this schtuff. rhett o rick Oct 2014 #29

War Ichingcarpenter Oct 2014 #30

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Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast Oct 2014 #32

Time to arrest the whole damn lot of the military industrial complex and the BFEE. Initech Oct 2014 #34

K&R woo me with science Oct 2014 #35

bttt n/t bobthedrummer Oct 2014 #36