NYT: Controversial Pentagon Official Is Stepping Down (Douglas Feith)

[ItsThePeopleStupid]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 - Douglas J. Feith, the Pentagon's top policy official who became a lightning rod for issues including intelligence on Iraq and information warfare, said Wednesday that he would resign this summer.

Mr. Feith, who as under secretary of defense for policy represents the department at high-level government meetings on national security, becomes the most senior Pentagon official to announce his departure in President Bush's second term.

In a telephone interview Wednesday night, Mr. Feith said that after the November elections, he told Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that he wanted to leave this summer, after four years in the job, to spend more time with his family. He said he had not decided what he would do next.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/politics/27military.html?hp&ex=1106888400&en=865c2077e38741a5&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Kagemusha]

1. Spend more time with his family, huh.

Guess he didn't feel the need to come up with a better excuse.

Which was, 'Rice got her way and I couldn't run State for her under her nose.'

[paineinthearse]

2. Not LBN

At least 2 threads started yesterday. One has the DoD press release.