Note To Douglas Feith: Lawyer Up

The Bush Torturers™ are starting to feel the international heat. As I wrote 2 days ago, Spain is looking to bring 6 Bush top officials to court over there use of torture. One of the bigger losers of the Bush-era Pentagon was Douglas Feith. A neo-con and well-known supporter of Israel's right-wing Likud Party, Feith has convenient amnesia about his role in bringing America into war, as well as, his key role in cherry picking intelligence to justify said war.

Feith, a survivor of charisma bypass surgery, took Spain's charges lightly, claiming they “make no sense,” adding, “they criticize me for promoting a controversial position that I never advocated.” So how does the Pentagon you work at, where you are #3 in command, shred the Geneva Conventions and introduce torture, yet you play no part in advocating the policies?

Gonzalo Boye, one of the lawyers filing the complaint, responded to Feith, saying, “If they [Bush officials] are innocent, they shouldn’t be afraid” to come to court:

“I would recommend that Mr. Feith first of all read the complaint, and secondly that he get a very good lawyer,” Boye said. “If he is so sure of what he is saying — then the address of the national court is #22 Genova Street, second floor.”

And if past is prologue, look at Feith in 1987 under Reagan:

During his time in the Pentagon in the Reagan administration, Feith was instrumental in getting the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Weinberger and Shultz all to recommend (successfully) to the President not to ratify changes to the Geneva Conventions. The changes, known as Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, would have allowed non-state militants to be treated as combatants and prisoners of war even if they had engaged in practices that endangered non-combatants or otherwise violated the laws of war. Reagan informed the United States Senate in 1987 that he would not ratify Protocol I.

Never advocated?

Source: thinkProgress