Turmoil Grows for Wolfowitz at World Bank (NYT)

[struggle4progress]

By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Published: April 13, 2007

WASHINGTON, April 12 — Paul D. Wolfowitz’s tenure as president of the World Bank was thrown into turmoil on Thursday by the disclosure that he had helped arrange a pay raise for his companion at the time of her transfer from the bank to the State Department, where she remained on the bank payroll.

In a chaotic day of revelations and meetings at a normally staid institution, Mr. Wolfowitz apologized for his role in the raise and transfer of Shaha Riza, his companion, to a few hundred staff members assembled in the bank building atrium, only to be greeted by booing, catcalls and cries for his resignation.

Earlier, the bank’s staff association had declared that it was “impossible for the institution to move forward with any sense of purpose under the present leadership.” The association had helped spearhead an investigation into Ms. Riza’s transfer and raise, details of which came into the open in the last 24 hours.

The events injected a new ugliness into what had already been a bitter rift between Mr. Wolfowitz and many of the bank’s employees, who have questioned his suitability for the job as a former deputy secretary of defense and architect of the Iraq war, and have challenged many of his policies at the bank, especially those cracking down on corruption in which he suspended aid to several countries without consulting the board. ~snip~

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/world/13wolfowitz.html?hp

[rurallib]

1. Throw another one on the barbie

God, how I love the smell of roasting neocons all day

[jeff30997]

2. Bwahahaaaah! Excellent !

They're all falling like flies! Hey Wolfie! Catch the comb! Yeah,good boy!

[Erika]

3. Wolfie being immoral?

I thought he only licked combs as an abberation. Just another W appointee. Morals mean nothing to the GOP when it comes to harvesting the buck.

[spindrifter]

4. This behavior certainly speaks to Wolfie's anti-

corruption knowledge. Wow. How cunning to get a whopping raise and mandatory "outstanding" ratings on your job evaluations.

[Supersedeas]

10. Corrupt cronies in charge of finding corruption in their political enemies--sound familiar?

[opihimoimoi]

5. OMG...Yet ANOTHER ONE...OMG.....Bushies Cronies are finding ways to alert us of the FALLIBILITY

of Leaders choosing their friends for high position...especially when their credentials are weak at best....

Bushies Fort is ON FIRE...its reached a CONFLAGATION LEVEL

[ClassWarrior]

7. More than that, it's the failure of conservative ideology itself.

NGU.

[la la]

6. maybe she offered

to buy him some better socks----or darn the old ones!

yeah, I know- who darns socks anymore?

[Penndems]

8. "The transfer and a subsequent raise eventually took her to a pay of $193,590 from $132,660,

tax-free because of her status as a diplomat,. . ."

:wtf:

A "consultant to the foundation, the Foundation for the Future," is NOT a "diplomatic position". Consultants are not diplomats. That distinction is held for Ambassadors and Foreign Service Officers. No real diplomat that I know makes that kind of money, unless they're overseas working in a dangerous environment.

LOL, this Administration can come up with more bullshit answers than Carter's has liver pills.

[Erika]

9. The bank employees protested his position n/t