In this final segment of the Uncommon Knowledge interview with the author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith insists that President Bush got the main thing, the need to wage war on terrorism, just right, but that the CIA got everything wrong. Would he abolish the CIA if he could? “That’s a suggestion I would take very seriously.”
Douglas Feith on President Bush, the CIA, General David Petraeus, and Feith’s old boss, Donald Rumsfeld.