WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008 War Policy with Douglas Feith: Chapter 3 of 5 Why was the CIA’s pre-war intelligence about Iraq so faulty? Simple, says Feith. According to a congressional report, “the CIA did not have . . . a single agent dedicated to the WMD issue in Iraq before the war. Not one.” Making matters worse, the CIA neither offered the president alternatives to his Iraq policy, nor did it wholeheartedly support that policy once it was implemented. PERMALINK About Douglas Feith Douglas Feith is a professor at Georgetown University and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2001 to 2005 he served as undersecretary of Defense for policy, reporting directly to the secretary of Defense. He is the author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (Harper, 2008).

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