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Special Plans: The
blogs on Douglas Feith and the faulty intelligence that led to
war
Selected
and with an
introductory essay
by Allison Hantschel (Athenae of First Draft)
Here’s
a story of espionage, think tanks, power brokers, a crazy drunk
named Curveball, and Douglas Feith—the Undersecretary of
Defense for Policy whose Office of Special Plans oversaw the
enormous manipulations and failures of intelligence that led
to the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq.
- “Special Plans offers invaluable insight into a key figure
behind the propaganda campaign that swayed Americans to support
Bush’s Iraq War. Douglas Feith didn't get much coverage
in the mainstream press because he was ‘just’ an undersecretary
in the Defense Department. But this collection of blog entries
about Feith reveals that he was much, much more than that. This
book is a testament to the fact that the new Internet media delivers
needed information that the mainstream press no longer
covers in detail.”
—Mark
Karlin, Editor and Publisher
BuzzFlash.com
- “The blogosphere is that rough, raw
and personal reporting, complete with elements of gossip and
imagination. Mainstream media is establishment media, the kings'
notices to the serfs. I think Allison's investigation into how
well or how poorly the truth was reported in the run-up to Iraq,
within the blogosphere and by the mainstream media, is not only
important, but points us into a new place that may in fact lead
us to fewer wars rather than more wars.”
—Karen
Kwiatkowski, Op-EdNews.com
Contents
Preface - Foreword - Table of Contents
Part One: The Distinguished Undersecretary (introductory essay
by Allison Hantschel)
(view
pages 1–7)
Part Two: The Blogs on Douglas Feith, the Office of Special Plans
& the Project for a New American Century
Afterword
About
the Bloggers
- “If you wonder how we
got into this mess, this book gives you the answer by following
the career of the man Tommy Franks called, “The dumbest
[expletive] guy on the planet.” The editor has pulled together
some of the most informative and entertaining writing of the
past five years to track the central role of Douglas Feith, a
bureaucrat whose stunning ineptitude is a microcosm of the greater
global incompetence of the Bush administration.”
—David
Terrenoire,
author of Beneath a Panamanian Moon
- “Many bloggers . . .
have a great talent for honing a complex topic down to its essence.
Athenae certainly does. I feel like I have a reasonable amateur's
hold on the subject now, which I think is the point of the series.”
—Jeanne
d'Arc,
Body
and Soul
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