Contractor Was Ordered To Hire Wolfowitz Girlfriend
The scandal and controversy surrounding World Bank President and prominent “neocon” Paul Wolfowitz continues to blossom:
The U.S. Defense Department ordered a contractor to hire a World Bank employee and girlfriend of then-Pentagon No. 2 Paul Wolfowitz in 2003 for work related to Iraq, the contractor said on Tuesday.A spokeswoman for Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, said the Defense Department’s policy office directed the company to enter a subcontract with Shaha Riza, under which she spent a month studying ways to form a government in Iraq.
Wolfowitz, a key Iraq war architect who left the Pentagon in 2005 to become president of the World Bank, is already under fire for overseeing a high-paying promotion for Riza after he took the helm of the poverty-fighting global lender.
Senior Democratic congressmen and other critics have pressed demands for his resignation, saying his actions have undermined the campaign against corruption in the developing world that has been a hallmark of his World Bank tenure.
SAIC said Riza’s subcontract lasted from April 25 to May 31, 2003. She was paid expenses but no salary during her trip to Iraq, at her request, according to the contractor.
Melissa Koskovich, a spokeswoman for SAIC, said the contractor “had no role in the selection of the personnel who comprised the Iraq Governance Group under this contract.”
Defense sources said the Pentagon was reviewing the matter.
Usually these kinds of scandals have a momentum. And Wolfowitz is losing Big Mo. On the other hand, the Boston Globe’s H.D.S. Greenway thinks the problem with Wolfowitz is that he’s too much of an idealist.
Stephen Colbert has named Wolfowitz Alpha Dog Of The Week.
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For those who wish to learn some truth about this subject, try this Clarice Feldman article from the American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/the_wolfowitz_setup_just_say_n.html
also, this LA Times article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-wedgwood17apr17,0,7950703.story?coll=la-opinion-center
Does anyone in this administration have any concept whatsoever of the term “Conflict of Interest”?
Thats the problem Sam, Wolfowitz thinks he’s still working for the administration and forgot other institution have a thing called oversight LOL.
Lol, thats probably more than half true.
Actually, I read today that one reason the European powers that supply the Bank with about 40% of their funding were upset with Wolfie, was that he kept trying to get WB funding for Iraq- and even wanted the Bank to set up a branch- there -hmmm Downtown Baghdad would be a nice spot, I think- near the market where McCain and Graham strolled around on their rug-buying sortee.
jwest – From your first link:
I stopped reading after this nonsense, did Soros set up Wolfie and his girlfriend on a blind date. Corruption and nepotism has nothing to do with Soros. Please supply a less delusional article to defend your neocons. Maybe Fukyama, the ex neocon could suggest a link.