Circling The Wolfies

Our bitter vengeful baying-for-blood World Bank correspondent is back with more gems about the one man band of incompetence, racism, nepotism, sadism and downright pathetic idiocy that is Paul Wolfowitz.
He has filed this report from the frontlines of The War on Neoconservatism:

Oh, the tangled web we weave… when we are corrupt megalomaniac bastards unaccustomed to accountability and the uniform application of ethical standards.

To summarize:

1) Wolfie arranged extraordinary (and extraordinarily out of line) compensation packages for his political and physical lovers, and then tried to blame it on the Board of the World Bank. For full report click here, go to posting of 4/13 “GAP Points Out Bank Board Given Wrong Information”, and see second link.

2) The World Bank Staff Association (and the Financial Times, and others) have called for Wolfie’s resignation.

3) His girlfriend, Shaha Riza, took a leave of absence from the Bank (before Wolfie was president) to work as a subject expert for a US defense contractor in Iraq without disclosing the employment to the relevant Bank authorities, in violation of Staff Rules.

4) The relatively new Managing Director of the World Bank appointed by Wolfie, Juan Jose Daboub, former government official of El Salvador (and founding member of the far-right party ARENA, which has well-documented relations with 80’s civil war death squads) and active Opus Dei member, personally directed the removal from the Madagascar Country Assistance Strategy and the Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Strategy all references to the phrase ‘family planning’. Apparently, he felt the need to overturn decades of official policy because family planning falls ‘under the purview of UNFPA’. Read The Emails here.

5) This last point isn’t yet under discussion by the Board as reflective of Wolfie’s ethics, but it should be (and will be investigated by the WB Ethics Committee)… Wolfie has another major conflict of interest because he personally, in his capacity as Deputy Secretary of Defense, approved multi-billion single source contracts to Halliburton, and then, in his capacity as President of the World Bank Group, sits on the International and Advisory Monitoring Board, which is to oversee the appropriate use of precisely those funds.