douglas feith

Feith Interrogated About Interrogation Methods

Jul 17, 2008
In this clip from Thursday's House Judiciary Committee hearing about prisoner interrogation methods at Guantanamo Bay, former Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith gets into a tense round of questioning with Rep. Keith Ellison about what former Attorney General John Ashcroft did or didn't tell him about interrogation vis-à-vis the Third Geneva Convention.
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Douglas Feith Defends Bush on ‘Daily Show’

May 14, 2008
Is some of what we now consider common knowledge about the run-up to the Iraq war wrong -- for example, that we were deceived about the U.S.'s reasons for invading Iraq? Former Pentagon official Douglas Feith, who has been harshly criticized for his involvement in that process, thinks so -- and he has a new book to make his point. Here he faces Jon Stewart and his "Daily Show" audience to talk about it all.