Apr 14 2007
Mea Culpa On Wolfowitz
Personally, I would not mind seeing Wolfowitz get booted for his preferential treartment (and insane salary) for his lover. But there is one thing which has changed my mind on this – the World Bank authorized the action with full knowledge.
But FOX News has analyzed more than 100 pages of internal bank documents dating to 2005 that paint a far more complex portrait of the case – and suggests that the bank’s own ethics committee had known the terms of the settlement with Riza for at least a year.
The documents show that while Wolfowitz did indeed dictate the lucrative terms of Riza’s salary to the bank’s human resources chief, he also took steps to try and determine if what he was doing was right – seemingly trying to navigate his way through an arcane bureaucracy with a maze of unusual rules and procedures.
The documents also show that, while many board members have claimed that they only learned the details of Riza’s case – and salary hike — this week in newspapers, the board’s Ethics Committee has been fully aware of all the details since early 2006, when it conducted a probe and determined that the allegations “did not appear appropriate for further consideration.â€
OK, that is a much different story (and the news media should now be taken to task for inaccurate reporting – except that is their highest standard they can achieve it seems). If Wolfowitz went through the effort to get the move blessed and it was blessed that is something the World Bank is responsible for letting happen. His lover should still be let go – there is no place for this stuff at work. And Wolfowitz should be reprimanded. And the World Bank should be investigated for other incidents of the same or similar kind. I am sure it is rife with them. Time to clean house, and maybe Wolfowitz is the perfect person to do the job as part of his punishment.
ohh much better, gotta remember that
Mike:
I don;t think it is fair to say Bush is the lesser of evils. I do know that people on the right treat Bush like he is not a “real” conservative, but they are the only ones who think so. The left and the Democrats sure as hell think he is a right winger. They preach it all the time.
Terrye
You have to take into perspective that W for a while dealt with the Texas legislature where people tend to have a different code of worth and honor.
It didn’t transfer well to national politics.
But then Texas had to deal with the cut and run dems who bussed themselves out of the state to avoid a quorum vote one time, so all things can come into play at a given moment.
Terrye,
Are you stating that Bush is a REAL conservative???
HUH?
Let’s see Bush as a REAL conservative:
1) Amnesty for Illegals
2) Perscription Drugs
3) Kennedy Bill for a Bigger slush fund for our Broken/Corrupt dept. of Education!
Just to name a few!
I don’t know how you can sit there with a Straight Face and imply that Bush is a REAL conservative??
“Real Conservatives” are out of power and on the sideline. They keep making the big mistake that purity is power…
Not to the rest of us conservatives. BTW, I supported Bush and would even without 9-11.