- War Captives Could be Held if Acquitted (March 23, 2002)
...es drew little criticism from Congress. During the briefing, Haynes and Douglas Feith, undersecretary for policy, said it was possible that someone could be acq... - Secret Talks With Iranian Arms Dealer (August 8, 2003)
...st two Pentagon officials working for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith have held "several" meetings with Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian middle... - CIA Finds No Evidence Hussein Sought to Arm Terrorists (November 16, 2003)
...nued to defend that position. Last Thursday, Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith defended the administration's prewar position at the Council on Foreign Re... - Perle's War Fever (August 1, 2002)
... Richard Perle, a former defense official in the Reagan administration and Douglas Feith, a longtime colleague of Perle's who is a planning official at Defense. Th... - Air Strikes Raise Tensions Over Iraq (September 30, 2002)
... a duty to allow those missions to go on," said Undersecretary for Defence Douglas Feith on a visit to Rome. "Iraq has no right to be firing at the aircraft th... - US Seeks New Afghan Aid Amid Criticism of Reconstruction (July 27, 2003)
...aid resulted from "a comprehensive, strategic update on Afghanistan," said Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, who confirmed accounts of the progr... - United States Cool to UN Vote on Iraq (August 2, 2003)
...deologically opposed to some type of new U.N. resolution is not accurate," Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, said yesterday. But when presse... - US, Israel Discuss Joint Anti-Terror Office (June 29, 2002)
...stration will back the effort but confirmed that Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith met with Mr. Landau and Gen. Tzur on Thursday. "We don't discuss closed... - Lack of Planning Contributed to Chaos in Iraq (July 12, 2003)
... Pentagon planning group, directed by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, the department's No. 3 official, included hard-line conservatives who had... - Pentagon May Eliminate New Office of Influence (February 25, 2002)
..."Meet the Press." Distancing himself from the office, which reports to Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy, Mr. Rumsfeld said he would lea... - A Deliberate Debacle (December 12, 2003)
...he clandestine meetings last summer between Pentagon officials working for Douglas Feith, under secretary of defense for policy and planning — and a key player in... - Serving Two Flags (February 28, 2004)
...he China Commission and, with the support of DOD Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith, he has since 2001 been employed as a consultant for the Office of Specia... - Building a Better Bomb (May 1, 2002)
...ging weapons policy without consulting Congress, Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith assured them that the design teams will work only on a "straight modificat... - Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad (February 19, 2002)
...quests for an interview. General Worden has close ties to his new boss, Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy, that date back to the Reagan a... - Rumsfeld's Personal Spy Ring (July 16, 2003)
...l Wolfowitz, and directly overseen by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. Together, the top three Pentagon civilians make up the most hawkish, neoc...
Douglas Feith
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Douglas Feith has served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for President George W. Bush since July 2001.
His responsibilities include the formulation of defense planning guidance and forces policy, Department of Defense relations with foreign countries and the Department’s role in U.S. Government interagency policy making.
Politically, Feith has been associated with the Cold War "neoconservative" school of thought. As an ardent defender of Zionism and a strong advocate of close relationship between the United States and Israel, Feith has drawn critics who view his views as anti-Arab.
Previous to his appointment, Feith spent fifteen years as the managing attorney of the law firm of Feith & Zell, P.C., located in Washington, D.C.
From March 1984 until September 1986, Feith served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy.
Before becoming Deputy Assistant Secretary, Feith served as Special Counsel to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle.
Feith transferred to The Pentagon from the National Security Council at the White House, where he worked in 1981-82 as a Middle East specialist.
Feith's writings on international law and on foreign and defense policy have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The New Republic and elsewhere. He has contributed chapters to a number of books, including James W. Muller, ed., Churchill as Peacemaker; Douglas J. Feith, et al., Israel’s Legitimacy in Law and History; and Uri Ra’anan, et al., eds., Hydra of Carnage: International Linkages of Terrorism.
Feith holds a J.D. (magna cum laude) from the Georgetown University Law Center and an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College.