If your son or daughter returned from Iraq with their life shattered by permanent, debilitating injuries, or if, God Forbid, they did not return from Iraq at all, you must be reading with growing angst of the actions of one Douglas Feith: the Neocon Likudite who --knowingly and deliberately it appears-- seeded patently false information into pre-war intelligence reports which induced Congress to support Bush's splendid little war in Iraq.
In the rightwing parallel universe in which this Administration currently resides, Feith's actions have been met with a "boys will be boys" shrug, and prosecution has been ruled out.
But in the real world, there's Qui Tam, or the Federal False Claims Act.
Qui tam is a provision under the False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq.), which allows for a private individual, or whistleblower with knowledge of past or present fraud on the United States federal government to bring suit on behalf of the government. Its name is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase "qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hoc parte sequitur," meaning "he who for the king as well as for himself." This provision allows a private person, known as a "relator," to bring a lawsuit on behalf of the United States, where the private person has information that the named defendant has knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false or fraudulent claims to the United States. The relator need not have been personally harmed by the defendant’s conduct.
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Unlike Wolfowitz, Libby and even Cheney, who may have issued Feith his marching orders and who generally provided the blustery rhetorical framework for the war, Feith's own fingerprints appear on the smashed cash register of Bush's neocon ambitions in Iraq. According to the Pentagon's Inspector General, Feith was the sole person in the chain of command to have demonstrably sown false information into the Congressional reports.
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Granted, bankrupting Douglas Feith will not begin to compensate you or your family for your losses, but it may, in the fullness of time, convince future public officials to avoid lying to Congress and sending our troops into harm's way to advance their petty, arrogant, and wrongheaded political fantasies.
And in so doing... it just might save our country.