Former CIA Official: Feith’s Claims Are ‘Hogwash,’ He Took A ‘We Have A War To Sell’ Approach
Former CIA Official: Feith’s Claims Are ‘Hogwash,’ He Took A ‘We Have A War To Sell’ Approach
In a recent interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith attacked Paul Pillar, a 28-year veteran of the CIA who specialized in counterterrorism, for claiming that al Qaeda was not working with Saddam Hussein’s secular regime:
FEITH: I think that there were people, there were people in the CIA who had a theory that the Baathist secularists would not cooperate with the religious extremists in al Qaeda. And because they had that theory, when they looked at information that was, that showed, or that suggested that there was cooperation, they were inclined not to believe that information. [...]
One of the main people who was propounding that theory…that the Baathists wouldn’t deal with the jihadists is now out in the private sector, and he’s actually been quite vocal, and has written articles, and his name is Paul Pillar.
Pillar was right; Feith was wrong. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s Phase II report noted that Saddam Hussein “issued a general order that Iraq should not deal with al Qa’ida.”
Asked to respond to Feith’s attack, Pillar told ThinkProgress:
It is hogwash that community analysts, as Feith alleges, were peremptorily dismissing, or “suppressing,” reporting based on some bias on their part about what was or was not possible in Baathist-jihadi relations. In fact, I can’t think of any recent issue on which the intelligence community has exhaustively devoted more scrutiny — at great expenditure of senior as well as working-level time and attention–than this one of Iraqi-al-Qa’ida relations. I can say that confidently, based on intelligence assessments I read and meetings I attended.
Pillar told ThinkProgress that Feith’s office recommended that the CIA’s assessment on Iraq-al Qaeda relations “be ignored. Not challenged, not made the subject of a critical dialogue between policymakers and analysts, but ignored.” Pillar described how he personally witnessed Feith’s dismissive attitude towards intelligence professionals in one White House meeting in the fall of 2002:
When an intelligence officer responsible for counterterrorism politely pointed out that something Feith had just said (and was recommending as a public talking point) about Iraqi-al-Qa’ida relations was not supported by the intelligence, Feith dismissed my colleague’s point as “nit-picking” and quickly went on to the next subject. It was a don’t-bother-us-with-the-facts- we-have-a-war-to-sell approach.
Today, Feith claims he was merely asking “tough questions” and “challenging the CIA” prior to the war.
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Sounds exactly like Cheney’s dismissal of critics’ premises. These guys wouldn’t be connected somehow (PNAC), you know, in, like, maybe, a conspiracy (PNAC) or something, would they (PNAC)?
February 15th, 2007 at 10:38 amThey worship their one and only god — Profit.
February 15th, 2007 at 10:44 amI hope that either Levin or Skelton will subpoena him.
February 15th, 2007 at 10:45 amThe attitude of the neocons is “why are you looking at the things we actually said and the things that we did (even if it was yesterday) instead of just accepting our current version. We don’t need the nitpicky quoting our own words back to us. We don’t need anybody else’s truth, we create our own and the MSM gladly lets us do that. Now let’s get on to Iran.”
February 15th, 2007 at 10:47 amFeith’s BS editorial in the Post is getting even less support from the trolls than that hissy fit posted by Cheney’s daughter a few weeks back, check out the readers comments, very entertaining and heartening
Feith needs a huge cup of STFU!
February 15th, 2007 at 10:48 amPillar also told ThinkProgress that the recommendation from Feith’s office was that the CIA’s assessment on Iraq-al Qaeda relations “should be ignored. Not challenged, not made the subject of a critical dialogue between policymakers and analysts, but ignored.â€
And that needs to be in sworn testimony in a senate/congressional hearing. Feith needs to be hauled up there to answer to this. A thorough Phase II report is fine, but all of the players need to be brought in and put on record. Bush and Cheney won’t, but then they’ll be left having to defend themselves against the overwhelming evidence. We’ll see how many of their people want to go down shielding those two from impeachment.
February 15th, 2007 at 10:48 amANOTHER CROOK :( … enough to P**E !!!!!!!!!
February 15th, 2007 at 10:53 amoh ya….. they serve the people all right
lucky if your $100 is earth $20 by the time
all these political leeches eat it up and don’t
forget there’s 100% profit on whatever you buy
ANOTHER CROOK :( … enough to P**E !!!!!!!!!
February 15th, 2007 at 10:53 amoh ya….. they serve the people all right
lucky if your $100 is worth $20 by the time
all these political leeches eat it up and don’t
forget there’s 100% profit on whatever you buy
RE #2 Well, you know, “peace is trumped by … money”. GWB
February 15th, 2007 at 10:55 amWere there ever to be criminal charges against the architects of the Iraq war, Feith deserves to be among the first charged. Feith, Gaffney, Perle, Wurmser, et al, were complicit in cooking the information to conflate the war against al Qaeda with an attack on Saddam Hussein.
February 15th, 2007 at 10:57 amHe is a neocon nut. Carl Levin better subpoena him a get to the bottom of what his filthy deeds. He is amomg the worst traitors in US history.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:05 amPillar was a Dartmouth classmate of two of the Powerline dudes so they really are having problems attacking him, although Hindrocket seems to be getting used to it.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:07 amthe Daily Show had some great stuff about Feith. The man is a weasel. The best part was a colleague calling him the dumbest man he ever met.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:10 amis his first name barney. put a warden uniform on and the resemblence is remarkable!
February 15th, 2007 at 11:13 amMy favorite part of Feith’s defense is when he thinks that his manipulating CIA intelligence on Iraq was necessary because, as we now know, the CIA intelligence was wrong. But it was wrong because he manipulated it and made it wrong.
Feith is the perfect example of Republican insanity ruining the country.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:24 amI find it incredulous that the leader of this country would admit, while fumbling around to answer a question, that “money trumps peace” with regard to selling weapons and/or technology to Iran.
And we’re waiting for “what” to impeach this freakish clown?
February 15th, 2007 at 11:25 amIs Feith the ‘Frenemy’?
February 15th, 2007 at 11:26 amColbert coined the new term this week, suggesting that Shias & Sunnis may be the ‘Frenemy’ now.
(You’re not sure if they’re for or against us.)
Seems to be some truthiness to this.
From Pillar to Clark to Ritter and on and on, the evidence is OVERWHELMING…
…Everybody in America who’s paying attention to what got us into Iraq knows…
…that Bush, Cheney, Feith, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, and ALL of their right wing propagandist henchmen/women LIED…
…and that they are TRAITORS…
…the question is now…
…whom do “we the people” prosecute, hold accountable, bring to justice?
…there are people on death row right now for FAR LESS crimes…
INVESTIGATE
IMPEACH
INCARCERATE
IMPOVERISH
…AND whatever else they deserve…
February 15th, 2007 at 11:33 amWe need to start by revoking their passports, so they can’t flee the country.
Comment by Spudge_Boy #21
I agree Spudge…
…I don’t think Bushiva or L’il Dick should be allowed to conduct any more “foreign policy” on our behalf…
…Bushiva’s supposed to be going to South America soon I understand…
…Paraguay should be warned that if they allow American fascists to roost there- there will be hell to pay…
…they would be harboring terrorists if they harbored any of the Bushite criminals…
…fire up the Hague’s docket, enter arrest warrants for them all…
…the Patriot Act’s going to come in handy in the coming years…
February 15th, 2007 at 11:52 amImpeachment should be a Feith-based initiative.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:57 amComment by AkaDad #23
I like it…
February 15th, 2007 at 12:11 pmI call that treason, and Feith should be dealt with accordingly.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:12 pmI appreciate all these people coming forward with stories like these but where were they 3,000 lives ago?
February 15th, 2007 at 12:26 pmThat may be only part of the problem. Over at Democraticunderground they have a Youtube that exposes the following.
“a reporter asks the White House Press Secretary about a deal that the Taliban has offered in FEBRUARY OF 2001 to hand over Osama to Saudi Arabia if sanctions are dropped and the White House reply was:
“Let me take that and get back to you on that.”
Obviously, Ari didn’t even know who “Osama” was. Just as obviously, Ari didn’t get back with the press with that vital information.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:28 pm#26 Lynne
I appreciate all these people coming forward with stories like these but where were they 3,000 lives ago?
There were plenty of them, but the MSM refused to report on it and the Republic-controlled Congress refused to act on it. This isn’t the first time Pillar’s spoken out about the doctored intelligence.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pmAll of the Middle East is our Frenemy. Except Issy of course.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:33 pm[...] find the subject of pre-war intelligence (and how it was presented ) quite fascinating. As Think Progress notes, I’m not the only one who thinks the OSP was simply blowing up the balloons for the dog [...]
February 15th, 2007 at 12:42 pmThe former CIA guy is correct about Iraq, but Feith is a Neocon dunce who needs Prozac badly!
February 15th, 2007 at 12:57 pmDallasNE – ‘Obviously, Ari didn’t even know who “Osama†was’.
From what I’ve heard there were plenty of pertinent people who DID know who Osama was at that time…
February 15th, 2007 at 1:10 pmI can’t believe how caviler these guys are about sending soldiers into a unnecessary battle.
They’ll just let soldiers and civilians die so they and their friends can get rich. It’s sickening.
Everyone involved in this needs to be severely punished. Maybe that would prevent this from happening in the future.
February 15th, 2007 at 1:11 pmI appreciate all these people coming forward with stories like these but where were they 3,000 lives ago?
Comment by Lynne #26
Lynne,
To add to chimpeach’s post…
…one must also remember that many in the intelligence community…
…were silenced by the threat of legal coersion as well…
…going public with “classified” information is a legally punsihable offense…
…now that much of the aforementioned intel has been “declassified”…
… it is safe for them to come forward with the truth…
February 15th, 2007 at 1:23 pmHasn’t Feith lied to congress? Why hasn’t he been indicted yet? Feith needs to go to jail.
February 15th, 2007 at 1:37 pmComment by Bluedog49 #34
Bluedog,
The Bushites have been very crafty in their deception…
…we must all remember that…
…many times (more often than not) when the Bushites have been called to testify for this committee or that…
…they have NOT been placed under oath…
…like the oil company crooks who blatantly LIED to a congressional committee chaired by their fellow co-conspirator from Alaska…
…Repulsivescum Senator “Bridge to nowhere” Stevens…
…supposedly “investigating” gouging of consumers by oil companies…
…point is- they’ve protected themselves from perjury and obstruction charges by NOT being sworn-in before testifying…
NOTE: Scooter Libby’s legal predicament
February 15th, 2007 at 1:57 pmHe like so many in power these days, he is a thug!….jon….For an irreverent response to climate change report, see http://EcosystemCollapse.com/ellen.html
February 15th, 2007 at 2:10 pmDear Doug,
“I hope that you die, and your death will come soon,
I will follow your casket by the pale afternoon,
And watch while you’re lowered, down to your deathbed,
And I’ll stand over your grave ’till I’m sure that your dead.”
-from “Masters Of War” by Bob Dylan
February 15th, 2007 at 2:28 pmFeith looks very, very nervous, very jacked on adrenaline, in his public appearances. He overstates his defense in a way that communicates a lot of guilt, and a lot of fear of repercussions.
February 15th, 2007 at 2:38 pm[...] story today at Think Progress is that not only did Saddam not actively cooperate with Al Qa’ida, he wrote an edict [...]
February 15th, 2007 at 2:47 pmI can understand making an error in judgment or even making a few errors in judgment. What I can’t understand is how Douglas Feith is allowed to walk free when he obviously manufactured data and facts to justify a war that has resulted in the deaths of 3100 Americans and the maiming of 30,000+, plus the countless casualties suffered by the Iraqis. Isn’t that a crime? Isn’t it criminal to take advantage of a stupid president and commit Americans to fight a war for the security of Israel and the profits of big oil! I want the heads of Feith, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Libby, Rove, Rumsfeld on a stick.
February 15th, 2007 at 3:12 pmThe big story is so bizaar that it shows how this administration became worse than any rogue regime in history. Think about it. Right under the American flag, robotic fabricators were unleashed and sold the unmaking of America. Not a shot was fired. Nobody goes to jail. No resignations of the truly guilty. Pray that a new government can retrieve what’s been lost. …our democracy.
February 15th, 2007 at 3:20 pmWhy do I get the feeling that Feith is trying to sell us a used car?
February 15th, 2007 at 3:53 pmIn a democracy it is the duty of elected and appointed officials to serve the people. Why is it that Republicans never seem to do this? Why do the Republicans hate democracy? Republicans pretend to be advocates of democracy, but like much of everything they do, they’re lying hypocrites.
February 15th, 2007 at 3:56 pmThe only mystery here is why Feith continues to put his mouth in front of a microphone. The only thing that comes out of it is more stupid.
February 15th, 2007 at 4:57 pmAnyone with an ounce of common sense can see Dougie’s recent rants on CNN and WaPo has been a CYA attempt that is downright ridiculous.
February 15th, 2007 at 6:42 pm#19 big papa
Inquiring minds already know the truth – we’ve known the truth for years now; How loud must we holler before anyone hears?
I am exhausted from writing to newspapers, columnists, and my representatives. My car displays bumper stickers, I participate in marches, I attend local meetings, and yet, even though we now have a little power in government, the wheels are turning so slowly, I can’t bear it. I see a Republiscum on TV and I curse him. I see a Democrat playing it safe and I want to scream. If I didn’t care so much about my country and my children’s future, I would throw up my hands and walk away. It is Bush&Co who will destroy America. That others don’t see it happening, is a source of my despair.
Yesterday, the boy-king spoke — He is “certain” of the source for weapons in Iraq and he will “do something about it.” Equipping the troops on the ground would be a good start. He prefers to widen the war to Iran. Today, he plans to add more troops to Afghanistan. He is merely assembling more bodies in the theater.
Feith and the rest of the neocons deserve to be tried at the Hague. But I don’t see that event coming to pass.
February 15th, 2007 at 7:03 pmHang this lying sack of shit by his tiny balls from the white house fence…the death of thousands I lay at his feet and those of his neocon bastard brethren
February 15th, 2007 at 7:49 pmDoug Feith is a LYING COWARDLY SACK OF HYENA-CRAP VOMIT and the sooner he himself owns up to this, the better for all of us. Feith, TAKE A GOOD LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SAY “I am NOT a liar”–if the mirror doesn’t answer you back “HAH!” I would be very surprised. How the hell can you live with yourself day in and day out, lying, lying lying, lying, lying? Oh, I forgot! Your’re a key member of Bushland Uber Allies–that’s their STOCK IN TRADE, LYING!!!!! So instead of the program “To Tell the Truth,” Feith and his buddies watch “Lie Like Hell and Hope the American People Don’t Punish Me For It”–FAT CHANCE THAT WE WON’T PUNISH YOU BASTARDS–WE WILL HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE AND PUNISH YOU ALL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE RULE OF LAW!!!!!
February 15th, 2007 at 7:53 pmFEITH JUST CLAIMED NO SADDAM-AL QAEDA CONNECTION!!
In yesterday’s L.A. Times, Feith had a letter to the editors claiming he NEVER claimed there was “an operational” link between Hussein’s Iraq and Al-Qaeda.
This guy is slipperier than a greased pig at a homecoming game!
February 15th, 2007 at 8:51 pmWho does Feith really work for?
He appears not to be doing a very good job for the USA.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html
“….The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon’s office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam’s Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.
February 15th, 2007 at 8:59 pm“None of the Israelis who came were cleared into the Pentagon through normal channels,” said one source familiar with the visits. Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith’s authority without having to fill in the usual forms.
The exchange of information continued a long-standing relationship Mr Feith and other Washington neo-conservatives had with Israel’s Likud party.
In 1996, he and Richard Perle – now an influential Pentagon figure – served as advisers to the then Likud leader, Binyamin Netanyahu. In a policy paper they wrote, entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, the two advisers said that Saddam would have to be destroyed, and Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran would have to be overthrown or destabilised, for Israel to be truly safe.
The Israeli influence was revealed most clearly by a story floated by unnamed senior US officials in the American press, suggesting the reason that no banned weapons had been found in Iraq was that they had been smuggled into Syria. Intelligence sources say that the story came from the office of the Israeli prime minister. …â€
Let’s see now – what are Feith’s other areas of interest when he isn’t creating false evidence to dupe the United States with?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
According to the report’s preamble[1], it was
“prepared by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000. The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr.,
Douglas Feith,
Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated.”
Richard Perle, according to a footnote in the report, was the “Study Group Leader”.
“Securing the Northern Border”
“Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon…..â€
“Moving to a Traditional Balance of Power Strategy”
“Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right …..â€
Here is another link about “A Clean Break….â€
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/63/21831
What a coincidence….Israel wanted Saddam out of the picture….Mission Accomplished.
(I always keep forgeting why it is we are in Iraq killing Iraqis)
Now on to Iran……
February 15th, 2007 at 9:04 pmSorry to post so much – but Feith has just been such a busy boy…
How about another time Feith earned his US Taxpayer salary, working hard for the interests of the USA:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0520-02.htm
Pentagon’s Feith Again at Center of Disaster
by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON – Although it will take weeks, if not months, to sort out precisely who was responsible for what increasingly appears to have been the systemic abuse by U.S. soldiers of Iraqi detainees, it should be no surprise if Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith is found to have played an important role.
Feith, who, according to Bob Woodward’s new book, ‘Plan of Attack’, was described by the military commander who led last year’s invasion, Gen Tommie Franks, as ”the f—ing stupidest guy on the face of the earth”, has been at the center of virtually everything else that has gone wrong in Iraq, so there is no reason to think he was very far from this one….â€
Similarly, it was Feith’s office, along with the Defense Policy Group (DPG) whose members Feith appointed, that served as the point of entry and influence for Iraqi National Congress (INC) chief Ahmed Chalabi and his ”defectors” who provided phony intelligence about Hussein’s vast stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Oh yeah – right – Feith liked Chalabi too. Wasn’t Chalabi that other guy that got caught spying on the US, while on the US payroll? What do they call that….uhhhh….Treason?
“…..Evidence of Feith’s involvement in the prisoner abuse scandal rests primarily on reports that have appeared in ‘Newsweek’, the ‘New York Times’, and the ‘Los Angeles Times’…..â€
Oh yeah – another great job Feith – that Prisoner Abuse Scandal sure showed the world what we’re all about!
“…Like his mentor, former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle, Feith has long been a hardliner on foreign policy, arms control issues and Israel.
As a youth, his father, Dalck Feith, was active in pre-World War II Poland in Betar, a militantly Zionist movement and forerunner of Israel’s Likud Party. His parents perished in the Nazi Holocaust, according to the neo-conservative ‘Wall Street Journal’, which last week demanded a public apology from Powell for his reference to Feith’s operation as the ”Gestapo Office….”.
Oh boy….must we now call Powell an anti-semite too?
Shame on Powell – doesn’t he know that slogan is copyrighted?
“…In 1997, Feith argued in ‘Commentary’ magazine for Israel to re-occupy the Occupied Territories and repudiate the Oslo accords, and the following year he signed an open letter to then-President Bill Clinton calling for Washington work with Chalabi’s INC to oust Hussein….â€
Well – just goes to show…sometimes if you just push hard enough – you can get what you want.
But – I’m still wondering….How has all this helped the USA?
February 15th, 2007 at 9:08 pmFrom the HH interview “DF…I think that there were people, there were people in the CIA who had a theory that the Baathist secularists would not cooperate with the religious extremists in al Qaeda. And because they had that theory, when they looked at information that was, that showed, or that suggested that there was cooperation, they were inclined not to believe that information.:
From Feith’s OWN letter to the editor printed in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times: “…my Pentagon office never said there was an operational relationship between Iraq and Al-Qaeda.”
This guy needs to be jailed.
February 15th, 2007 at 9:26 pmThis guy needs to be jailed.
Comment by Shirley Ugest — February 15, 2007 @ 9:26 pm
It’s a shame there is not some way to execute him 3,133 (and counting) times….preferably with shrapnel.
And make his family – and all his future family members work like slaves to pay the trillion dollars this war will cost.
And then of course there is Iraq – will Iraq and it’s people ever see even a token of justice?
February 15th, 2007 at 9:45 pmOr is it just easier to let the depleted uranium finish it’s job and kill them all, before anyone even thinks of having to apologize?
How loud must we holler before anyone hears?
I am exhausted from writing to newspapers, columnists, and my representatives. My car displays bumper stickers, I participate in marches, I attend local meetings, and yet, even though we now have a little power in government, the wheels are turning so slowly, I can’t bear it.
Comment by Marie #47
Marie,
Think back to the latest demonstration in D.C. (and all over the country/world) and you’ll realize that you are not alone…
…there are tens (perhaps hundreds) of MILLIONS of us here in the U.S. alone who feel your anguish and frustration…
…there are millions (here in the U.S.) and tens of millions (worldwide) who participate in the same ways you have…
…If there’s one statement I’ve heard right wingers utter more than a few times that rings true to me it’s that:
“Fighting for freedom ain’t easy”
…Marie we can’t give up because the alternative…
…a corporate owned, soul-less, oppressive, racist, homophobic, mysogynistic, right wing, inbred conned’self-servative America…
…is too frightening to contemplate…
…how long could the world last if all we in America had to look forward to…
…is another Bush/Cheney criminal cabal?
…keep your chin up lady…
…you’re on the right side of the equation…
…you’re fighting a good fight (especially given that you have children, grands etc…)
…and you (and they) will be blessed for your efforts…
…know that Karma IS everything…
I hope that helps…
February 15th, 2007 at 10:34 pmThanks for the encouragement, big papa. I know I am not alone — far from it – I was just feeling pretty low yesterday.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:43 amFeith mentioned something to the effect that in Iraq we now face a strategic alliance of jihadists and former Baathists… Something he envisioned and the CIA had not.
But after four years of war, Iraq has been left wide open for al-Qaeda jihadists to enter. The Sunnis/Baathists and the Shiites are fighting for positions of future control, knowing American troops will eventually leave. One could also assume the only reason the Sunnis/Baathists would fight side by side with the al-Qaeda jihadists (with the US taking the Shiites side), is if their country was in total ruin and they had no other choice.
Did Feith’s theory require as absolute colapse of Iraq’s society to work? Is this why the Americans went into Iraq with so few troops to stabilized it? Or maybe they had enough troops, but never planned on protecting the warehouses full of explosives (which they didn’t).
Did Feith want to create chaos in Iraq, so that it would be a magnet for militants? Thus making Iraq a breeding ground for terrorist, knowing the surrounding countries would somehow get involved and in effect put the US at odds with every country in middle east? Except Israel.
I believe our goverment in past years has lead too many investigations into subjects that don’t matter.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:07 pmYet, I believe an investigation into Wolfowitz & Co. would be money well spent.
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