...to
emerge today was a Financial Times piece looking at the
professional/working history of Paul Wolfowitz and Shaha Riza. It covers
the links between the two when the Iraq War started (Wolfowitz directed a defense
contractor to hire her); how they shared a political vision for the Middle East;
and the various brouhahas in the current Bank situation.
--Dylan
Blaylock
This is all quite unfair. The report of the experts against Wolfowitz acuses him of not being aware of the Staff Rules and Code of Conduct.
Not only are these thousands of pages long each, no staff member of the Bank has ever read them! If the rules were to be applied as zealously to every staff member and mamanger decision, half of them would loose their job.
Ultimately things work by convention, and if the ethics committee gives the go ahead, ahead you go. Period.
The ad hoc groups shold have also investigated the actions of ethics committee.
Frankly, this is all a political manouver by disaffected staff who did not want changes to status quo. Pathetic.
I think it will stop short if Bush threatens to nominate John Bolton as successor.
Posted by: Mike | May 17, 2007 at 02:16 PM