23 April 2007

Rizagate - the plot thickens

On Friday the World Bank broadened the scope of its investigation into the affairs of the Bank's President Paul Wolfowitz to include the employment contracts of a number of neo-con advisers that he brought into the Bank when we took over. In fact things are going so bad for poor Wolfie that he's Bill Clinton's former lawyer. There isn't a dress somewhere that we are about to find out about is there? Does anyone know the whereabouts of Linda Tripp?

There are a number of folks who are defending Mr. Wolfowitz and by extension Ms. Riza, saying that he did all that he could do when he was hired by revealing his romantic relationship with Ms. Riza and arranging for her secondment (with a considerably improved wage packet) to the US Department of State. Why has no one suggested that, if he wished to continue his relationship with Ms. Riza, and truly loved and respected her that he refuse the job and look elsewhere for employment? Surely that would have been the correct thing to do instead of trying to have his cake etc etc.

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