The Slowmoving Wheels of Oversight Turn

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Ruh-roh, Shaggy. Looks like the IG has received that phone call. I can smell the OSP ballsweat stench from here:

A long awaited Pentagon Inspector General's report into the Office of Special Plans and its activities surrounding pre-war intelligence in the lead up to the Iraq war has been completed, RAW STORY has learned.

According to sources close to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the classified version of the Pentagon IG's report will be released to committee members Friday. Two to three declassified pages may also be concurrently released to the public.

A Senate aide on the committee, while not commenting on particular questions regarding the IG’s report, confirmed that a major focal point involves former Deputy Undersecretary for Defense Policy, Douglas Feith – a keystone of the Administration’s intelligence on Iraq and Director of the notoriously secretive Pentagon Office of Special Plans from September 2002 to June 2003.

Feith announced his resignation in January 2005, a week after the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh accused him of working with Israeli officials to select potential targets for a preemptive Iran strike.

It remains unclear how objective the Inspector General’s report will be, given that the Pentagon was tasked with investigating itself. It’s also uncertain just how much light two to three declassified pages will shed on questions surrounding what many consider a rogue Pentagon intelligence unit created to feed White House information favoring a case for war.

For his part, Feith says he has not been privy to the IG's findings.

I “haven't seen a copy of the IG report,” Feith wrote in an email to RAW STORY in the early hours Wednesday. “I requested a copy but the IG's office chose not to provide one.”

Asked about his thoughts of the Office of Special Plans in a three point email, Feith - who now teaches at the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service – responded, “I'll save my thoughts on question three for another time.”

Repeated attempts to reach the IG's office in time for publication proved fruitless. In the past, the IG's office responded to questions by saying the IG was conducting a “review,” not an “investigation.”

Either way, the Pentagon has told the Intelligence Committee to expect the report Friday.

In a fair world, there are about 1,000 Administration cronies and criminals who would hang for their role in the debacle that is Iraq. I don't expect that kind of justice, but a nice long list of sentences for fraud and theft would be a good start to putting down the hyenas and bloodsuckers that are infesting the Republican party. Pass the popcorn, this could get good.

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