Reply #4: Feith is a real piece of work

[soothsayer]

Here's some aljazeera stuff about him from earlier this year:

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But like Cheney, the undersecretary is no stranger to extreme conflicts of interest himself.

Before his political appointment, Feith's own website stated that he “represented a leading Israeli armaments manufacturer in establishing joint ventures with leading US aerospace manufacturers for manufacture and sale of missile systems, to the US Department of Defense and worldwide.”

His own biography says that he specialises in "technology transfer, joint ventures and foreign investment in the defense and aerospace industries."

Feith has also been quoted as saying: "it is in the interest of the US and Israel to remove needless impediments to technological cooperation between them" - an incredible admission for an official in his position.

The Israeli commentator Akiva Eldar even observed in a Haaretz column (26 April 2002) that Feith was "walking a fine line" between his loyalty to American governments and Israeli interests.

"I also noted his close association with the pro-Likud groups, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and his law firm's international work promoting the Israeli arms industry," James Zogby said of Feith in May 2001.

more http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/64473AA3-A99B-44D7-B009-EC7E0D235A44.htm