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  1. A conversation with former Pentagon official Douglas Feith
    A conversation with former Pentagon official Douglas...

    with Douglas Feith on Feb 16, 2007

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Douglas Feith is the former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for President George W. Bush, a position he held from July 2001 until he resigned August 8, 2005. He is now on the faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he teaches a course on the Bush administration’s antiterrorism policy.

Feith first entered government as a Middle East specialist on the National Security Council under Ronald Reagan in 1981. He transferred to the Pentagon in 1982 to work as Special Counsel for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security. Feith was promoted in 1984 to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy and, when he left the Pentagon in 1986, he received the highest Defense Department civilian award, the Distinguished Public Service medal. Upon leaving the Pentagon, Feith established the Washington, DC law firm of Feith & Zell, which represents defense corporations Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Feith also served on the board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and he has been honored by the Zionist Organization of America.

Feith is co-founder of the organization One Jerusalem to oppose the Oslo peace agreement. He is also Director of Foundation for Jewish Studies. His writings on international law and on foreign and defense policy have appeared in ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘Commentary’, ‘The New Republic’ and elsewhere.

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