You probably haven't heard of the office of the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict (ASD SO/LIC), it is "a civilian office tasked with oversight of the Pentagon’s special-operations forces"
The "office oversees several functions: information operations, counternarcotics, stability operations and the so-called “special operations/combating terrorism."
In 2001, Douggie Feith tried to shut down the office - probably because he was also running special-ops out of OSP and wasn't particularly fond of oversight. Thankfully, Warner shut down the attempt to shut down the office, although Feith presumably found some other way to skirt the oversight.
Mr Edelman now has Feith's old job, and they are trying to shut down the office again.
Apparently the "DoD [the Department of Defense] has no convincing argument right now” to shut it down, and "Many lawmakers would be unwilling to go along with the idea — especially at a time when special-operations forces are growing and have primary responsibility in the war on terrorism."
Hopefully the Senate Armed Services Committee will put up a fight again, and hopefully they'll win again, and hopefully someone will ask why the neocons want to shut down the office.
I'm not hopeful
via athenae, who literally wrote the book on Feith. she asks
"Seriously, I'm asking. Is there a crap decision made by this administration that doesn't have Doug Feith's fingerprints all over it?"
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