Wolfowitz Back in Bush Administration
Paul Wolfowitz is back in a prestigious international relations advisory post with the Bush administration, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports. He'll chair the 18-member International Security Advisory Board, which "advises the Secretary of State on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters." Wolfowitz is a lightning rod, so it's no surprise that the move is garnering criticism: Although ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 3, 2007 08:20
McCain Rally Features On-Duty Soldiers
Several uniformed troops spoke at a John McCain "No Surrender Tour" rally in apparent violation of military regulations. Seven on-duty Army personnel participated in a campaign event for Senator John McCain earlier this month in Londonderry, N.H., in an apparent violation of a Pentagon directive against partisan political activity, two military officials confirmed this week. The Sept. 14 rally at ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 29, 2007 09:51
Zoellick To Head World Bank
Following up on Steven Taylor's post from this morning, the International Herald Tribune and others are reporting that former U.S. trade negotiator and deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick will replace Paul Wolfowitz as the president of the World Bank. Zoellick appears to be highly qualified for the position, and his apparent support from the bank's European shareholders, developing-world clients, and ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 29, 2007 18:07
Zoellick, Paulson, and Lugar Top World Bank List
Eager to put the embarrassment of the Paul Wolfowitz brouhaha behind him, President Bush "will have a candidate to announce soon, allowing for an orderly transition that will have the World Bank refocused on its mission." AP reports that, "Among those mentioned as a possible replacement for Wolfowitz were former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, who was Bush's ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 18, 2007 09:21
Wolfowitz to Resign Today
Kirit Radia and Brian Ross report that Paul Wolfowitz will resign as president of the World Bank later this afternoon. World Bank officials say the bank's board is completing an "exit strategy" that will allow World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz to resign this afternoon and "still save some face" over the issue of his efforts to seek a promotion and ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 16, 2007 13:32
Wolfowitz Threatens Reciprocity
According to a "key witness" in the investigation into the propriety of his getting his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a new job with guaranteed pay raises and top performance reviews, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz threatened, "If they [screw] with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to [screw] them too." The quote, sanitized for sensitive readers, is doubly amusing given ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 15, 2007 15:02
Wolfowitz World Bank Scandal a Non-Scandal?
Christopher Hitchens believes that Paul Wolfowitz and, by extension, Shaha Riza, have been "slimed" as a result of the "eagerness for prurience, the readiness for slander, and the utter want of fact-checking" of the press corps. Indeed, not only did they do nothing wrong but they acted extraordinarily honorably. Anyone in Washington who cares about democracy in the Muslim world ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 18, 2007 09:48
Paul Wolfowitz World Bank Scandal
Paul Wolfowitz's tenure as president of the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (better known as the World Bank) appears about to end after a scandal over preferential treatment of his girlfriend. The bank's staff association and the Financial Times are calling for his resignation, which I suspect will coon be forthcoming. AP's Jeannine Aversa has the basic details: At issue are ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 13, 2007 09:45
Libby Trial: Voir Dire Resumes
Judge Walton got things going at precisely 9:30. I'll live blog the morning's voir dire below, posting anything particularly newsworthy separately. The first candidate is a young white guy who admits to having worked against Bush (letter writing campaigns for MoveOn.org) but says he can be fair. His impressions based on the news accounts he read was that he was "surprised ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 22, 2007 10:01
Right and Wrong on Iraq
Andrew Olmsted concludes his discussion on the recent blogospheric meme about whether people who opposed the Iraq War for the wrong reasons deserve any credit with a formulation that is both correct and amusingly Rumsfeldian: Some people were right about Iraq for the wrong reasons. Some were wrong for the right reasons. Some were right for the right reasons, and ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 17, 2007 13:06
