Paul Wolfowitz, the president of the World Bank, is calling the movement for his removal a “smear campaign” and has told a special bank panel that he acted in good faith when he arranged for his girlfriend’s pay raise and promotion.
When addressing the panel, Wolfowitz said, “I acted transparently, sought and received guidance from the bank’s ethics committee and conducted myself in good faith in accordance with that guidance.”
Who are these people on this ethics committee who gave him the advice that this would not be a conflict of interest? Fifth-graders?
President Bush is standing firm on Wolfowitz being innocent until proved guilty, stating Wolfowitz “ought to stay. He ought to be given a fair hearing.”
If Wolfowitz’s actions aren’t found to be at least ethically questionable, I don’t know what could be anymore.
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You know, considering how lax Bush is on security it’s no surprise a foreigner can get high security access in the State Department. I’m not saying his girlfriend is a spy but since when do we let non-citizens in bypass security issues and let them in the State Dept.? Well, Bush is weak on terrorism and national security issues so I shouldn’t be surprised.
Wolfowitz is still yet another example of the CEO mindset that prevails in the Bush machine. They operate as if government is noting more than a corporation with the ethics governance of ” ethics policy is only for those who get caught”. The entire Bush machine’s philosophy is do anything your goal requires and demand no accountability. They have no understanding of ethical governance as a public servant.
Ethical violations? Why we should be welcoming Wolfie and his girlfriend with flowers.
Shaking my head…
Technically, if it were to appear in Court there would be no wrong doing. And since the committee/board cleared the salary action, there doesn’t appear to be an ethical violation either.
It does look like a smear campaign. Not saying I like favoritism in the work place, but it happens and if its legal, there’s not much to be done about it. Smearing someone’s name is just as bad and in this case worse than the so-called offense.
“Technically, if it were to appear in Court there would be no wrong doing.”
That’s because being stupid isn’t a crime. If it were, Bush would have been out of office years ago.
Can Wolfowitz lead when no one trusts him?
Hugo Chavez is severing all ties with the world bank and IMF.
Smart move. All the other countries that have been bankrupted by these insidious new forms of colonialism should do the same.
There Republican goes again, standing on technicalities. “No controlling legal authority,” anyone?
Given that Republicans generally have birthed a world in which appearance IS reality (Bush looks like a strong President, therefore he IS a strong President, all evidence to the contrary), it comes across as pathetic for Wolfowitz to cry “smear” and act like the victim. Moreover, the finding Republican cites comes from Robert Bennett’s report–hardly to be taken as definitive or impartial.
I’ll wait for the board commitee’s finding, thanks. But nice job spinning nonetheless, Republican.
When Paul Wolfowitz was appointed to the World Bank by Bush I said that “The Rat had just been put in charge of the Cheese” so it surprising that he’s started to eat?
There’s no accounting for how many of his buddies are receiving money which will never be paid back.
The US funds billions to the World Bank and we’re always in open season to be screwed by you know who.
Nothing new there.
Ed Friedemann,
So, to coin a phrase, does that make Wolfowitz and his Neocon ilk a bunch of “cheese eating corruption rodents?”
ED and CF2K I can remember how loudly you yelled over the oil for milk scam ran by the UN. I also remember you screaming about the billions Finestein gave her husband in no bid contracts when she shared the committee in charge of this. I can certainly share your outrage about nothing being done about this. I think the Dems are just to busy with the investigation of the AG and also their chase for Rove. It is disgraceful how he just keeps staying one step ahead of them. We can only hope for justice in this case.
Ah, hubris nets another one. Wolfie was thinking with his other head, as so often happens.
Dump him.
CF2K
Whatever name you can scrape off the bottom of the garbage pail is probably too good for that bunch.
Why Dennis would you dump Wolfie and not yell to dump Bill, or Barney Frank, or any number of other men that let themselves be led down the garden path by that same leader? It’s just sex don’t give it another moments thought.
Oh Ed you had better be careful what you scrape off the bottom of that bucket. You just might scrape off someone you know and love. The truth isn’t all out yet.
Prime Minister Omert of Jew-land-only, said to “fire one thousand cruse-missiles at Iran over a ten day period”
That asshole wants us to pay for the missiles and the price of gasoline that that will cause.
Thoughtful little bastard, now isn’t he?
And as if hostilities will stop there?
I’m not making this shit up.
Yeah, it’s all bill clinton’s fault.
as usual
yawn
No racism or bigotry there, now is there?
It doesn’t matter who let this shit get out of hand, it just matters who gets it fixed.
Ed you are by far the most racist and bigoted I have ever had the opportunity to blog with. Bar none. You and I could not be further apart. I saw what the Palestinians did. I heard them turn down half of the land that Israel now owns. Israel won it fair and square and offered some of it back. The Arabs own way more land than the Israelies. Now why don’t they offer a home to the Palestinians.
Your name calling doesn’t change facts. Start with Dir Yassin and work your nasty little deal to present day { and leave-out the lying, that’s getting old and tiresome }.
Ed you are right I should not have let myself become angry enough to call you names. My apologies for that.
That doesn’t change the facts you are blind to with your rage. Palestians don’t have a home because the Arabs don’t want them to have one. They want to keep the battle with the Jews alive and the Palestinians are they way of doing this.
I’m not blind to anything. You don’t have the facts straight. Propaganda is not factual, and your answers reek with Zionist propaganda.
There is a straightaway answer to the Middle East problem and the Jews don’t want anything to do with anything which interferes with their Zionist goal.
That is the problem, none other.
The problem lies on BOTH sides. Israel needs to vacate the Territories entirely; all settlements must be abandoned (with a few exceptions below). The IDF aldo must leave Palestine and be replaced with a robust peace-keeping force. NATO and others have offered such forces; they must NOT be US. This will allow for the nation-building that needs to take place in Palestine.
The exception mentioned above would involve land swaps to allow for settlement blocks that are contiguous to Israel to become part of Israel.
This has been outlined in the “Geneva Plan” pushed by many on both sides; including many former Shin Bet in Israel.
I’ve seen no evidence yet that Wolfie’s girlfriend is incompetent. Maybe we should keep her and dump Wolfie.
There don’t need to be any Jewish only “settlements” in the West Bank or Gaza passed the green-line.
When Jews steal money from banks they don’t get to keep some of it.
The Geneva Conventions are emphatic about land occupied after war, and the rule of International Law trumps Israeli aggression.
You raise a valid point Ed. My idea (shared by others on BOTH sides) would be for a land swap to accomodate them. I think Marwan Barghouti has endorsed this. It is called compromise.
Ben, Compromise is a good thing except when dealing with those assholes after all the misery they’ve caused.
That list goes on forever and is getting longer today.
Screw their ” One drop of a Jews blood is worth more than one thousand Palestinians lives” which is often repeated by MK ’s in the Knesset.
What would we do if one of our congressmen repeated that bigoted remark?
Google “fingernail of a Jew” and see how many hits you get.
ED FRIEDEMANN HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD. ISRAEL IS A RACIST SOCIETY AND IT IS LAUGHABLE TO REFER TO IT AS A DEMOCRACY. IF A U.S. SENATOR OR CONGRESSMAN EVER SAID THAT THE BLOOD OF ONE ETHNIC PERSON IS EQUIVELENT TO A THOUSAND PERSONS OF ANOTHER ETHNIC GROUP….THEY WOULD BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE THAT SAME DAY AND YET THIS IS STATED DAILY IN THE SUPPOSEDLY DEMOCRATIC ISRAELI KNESSET.