Syria, too?

More news about someone working for Douglas Feith, from an article in this morning's Boston Globe:

But one congressional investigator said staffers are looking into whether there was an exchange of money between US officials and Ghorbanifar or other Iranians, and whether any proposals for cooperation included seeking assistance from the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a group in Iraq that is seeking to overthrow the Iranian regime but is labeled a terrorist group by the US State Department.

Another Near East policy official, F. Michael Maloof, was stripped of his security clearance a year ago after the FBI linked him to a Lebanese-American businessman under investigation by the FBI for weapons trafficking. A handgun registered to Maloof was found in the possession of Imad el Hage, a suspected arms dealer.

Investigators are seeking to learn whether Maloof's alleged contacts with Hage and a hard-line former Lebanese general, Michel Aoun, may have been part of a back-channel effort to destabilize Syria, which has occupied Lebanon for nearly two decades.

"People are concerned about covert action being conducted by a policy office with no legal mandate to do so," said one Democratic official involved in the Judiciary Committee inquiry. "If the Senate and House intelligence committees in their review only look at the Chalabi relationship but don't look at the office's role in what was in effect covert action to explore regime change in the entire arc of the Middle East, then their inquiry will be a joke."

I don't think we'll be hearing much about Doug Feith, and all the hard-working guys in his office, from the speakers in New York this week. I mean, I didn't hear all of Giuliani's remarks, but I think, "We going to overthrow Syria and Iran, next!" might have made the headlines.

Maybe the guys at the Pentagon Policy Office don't agree with the President that the shining example of democracy we've created in Iraq will magically cause other countries to join Our Side? Or maybe they're just impatient.