Wolfowitz’s lawyer points fingers.
By on Apr 28th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Wolfowitz’s lawyer points fingers.
A World Bank committee investigating President Paul Wolfowitz has nearly completed a report “concluding that he breached ethics rules when he engineered a pay raise for his girlfriend.” The bank’s board will consider the report on Monday. Wolfowitz’s laywer, Robert Bennett, charged, “The board, through these unreasonable and unfair actions, can’t create a fake crisis and say he has to leave because he’s hurting the bank. They’re the ones who are hurting the bank. Even those people opposed to Mr. Wolfowitz will see how outrageous this is.”
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Pot, meet kettle.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:16 pmWolfowitz is a loser AND a total fraud. The american people need to get a hold of him after the World Bank is finished with him and place him on trial, along with his PNAC buddies, who hatched the plan filled with lies to engage us in this endless, amoral, and illegal war. The people are after Wolfie’s hide.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:18 pmPresident Bush has voiced “full confidence” in Paul Wolfowitz. But as history has shown, there is no more certain confirmation of the criminality, ethical-wrong doing or imminent departure of a Bush team player than the President’s expression of confidence in him.
For the details, see:
April 28th, 2007 at 1:19 pm“President Bush, Confidence Man.”
I can’t find the link, but didn’t Wolfowitz say he’d abide by thier recommendation??
Can they kick him out since the jerk won’t go willingly??
April 28th, 2007 at 1:22 pmIt would appear the rove or cheney hand picked the reich winged attorney for this gas bag….2008 can’t get here soon enough for me…Blessings All
April 28th, 2007 at 1:23 pmBush is also confident in himself, so his endorsements aren’t worth much. Bush and his cronies, including Wolfowitz, have been using the world as their own playground and piggy bank. It’s way past time to clear the bushes.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:26 pmBennett is the most willfully lying attorney in the US. The board of the bank must fire Wolfowitz > PERIOD.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:33 pmOne thing you will NEVER hear a neocon say: “I was wrong, and I accept responsibility for my mistakes.”
April 28th, 2007 at 1:35 pmThat is some serious spin! I got dizzy just reading it.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:40 pmArthur C., True enough, the closest they come is “Mistakes were made”…
On an unrelated Note: Sen. McCain keeps saying all week that the War was mismanaged. I sent a polite email saying I agree with him, but would like to know what he’d have done or will do differently.
So far, not even an automatic reply!
April 28th, 2007 at 1:41 pmNo, Mr. Bennett, they won’t. Your representation at this point in a CEO’s employment is absurd. Mr. Wolfowitz knows he has no legitimate management reason to remain, and can do nothing to undercut the authority of his board to fire him for cause. You are mounting a public campaign as a preliminary, open form of negotiating a severance package. That includes encouraging Mr. Bush to fight the Bank’s board to show that he cannot be intimidated. Because like Mr. Cheney, you know that Mr. Bush thinks the whole “reality based” world is intimidating.
Mr. Wolfowitz should resign; no responsible CEO would stay. He has lost the support of his entire careeer staff and his board of directors.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:44 pmRobert Bennett: “Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”
April 28th, 2007 at 1:45 pmU.S. has lost global standing
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The United States has lost its global standing during George W. Bush’s presidency and needs a Democratic commander in chief to restore America’s place in the world, Democrats running for the White House said Saturday.
“We are today internationally and domestically a nation that is no longer a leader,”
What their perception is that America is a bully and we only care about our short-term interests,” Edwards said. “The starting place is to end the bleeding sore that is the war in Iraq
HERES SOME ADVICE SEND AT LEAST CHENEY TO JAIL AND WE MIGHT CONSIDER AMERICA BEING ON A PODIUM – UNLESS YOU CAN JAIL MASS MURDERING OIL THIEFS THEN STAY OFF THE PODIUM FOREVER
April 28th, 2007 at 1:48 pm100% of the time everyone is wrong except the neocons?
What is that saying about when the whole world is crazy but you?
April 28th, 2007 at 1:50 pmDear Mr. Bennett,
April 28th, 2007 at 1:50 pmHa ha ha ha ha ha ha …….pause for breath………ha ha aha ah ha ha ah ha hha ha HA HA ha ha haha haha ……….shaking head….tears…..ha ha …………..HA.
Robert Bennett: Nuh uh.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:52 pmi quote, ‘kill all the lawers’…………….
April 28th, 2007 at 2:09 pmCheck out what Naomi Klein has to say about Wolfowitz in The Nation: Here.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:27 pmHis point is that the board was aware of the girlfriend’s outrageous pay package (and actually asked him to do it – one person in particular). The idea is that the board is negligent – and it is – but that overlooks the problem; the board is composed of political appointees not nonpartisan staffers…
Those that let him craft the package should go as well. Wolfowitz should leave because of this AND because he long ago turned the entire bank against him (and his policies).
April 28th, 2007 at 2:59 pmWhat an idiot. No wonder the world hates us now.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:59 pmWolfowitz can’t handle taking responsibility for his actions and he got caught doing something obviously wrong that also happens to be a clear firing offense. His departure seems inevitable. So what is really at the root of his intransigence? Sure, Wolfowitz is a megalomaniacal narcissist like his boss Bush, and certainly he feels above the law, but there is a deeper reason for it all: Wolfowitz is a crybaby, just like all the other whining crybabies in the Republican party these days. He won’t go to his room, so the adults will have to carry him there kicking and screaming. Just like Bush will have to be carried kicking and screaming from the White House.
April 28th, 2007 at 3:33 pmwhat on EARTH is you basis #19, for those ridiculous claims?
The board was NOT aware and did NOT approve of the package.
Wolfowitz LIED about that…that is one of the bases for the board’s and others’ insistence that he be gone.
There is no evidence whatsoever that anyone on the board knew, authorized, approved or had anything whatsoever to do with the obvious favoritism that went into this outrageous package of benefits.
Puhleeze….get your facts straight.
or are you just another paid detractor?
April 28th, 2007 at 3:45 pmBennett- people don’t want to hear you whine about your fucking client. Hacks like you no longer hold the public’s trust. Let’s just say that your opinion is as well respected as that of the White House, and just as (yawn) insightful.
April 28th, 2007 at 4:56 pmNeo-cons and their apologists are on the way down- the toilet has been flushed, we’re just waiting for the anticipated results.
The neocons are so reliable. That is their quality. No matter what, you can reliably count on them to lie, steal, cheat and, when they are finally held accountable (as rarely as that happens), to leave the room, not with dignity or any display of self-respect, but dragged by the feet kicking and screaming.
April 28th, 2007 at 6:01 pmIt would appear the rove or cheney hand picked the reich winged attorney for this gas bag….2008 can’t get here soon enough for me…Blessings All
Comment by Sharon
Robert Bennett also served as Clinton’s attorney, so I don’t know how reich-wing he is. I would venture to say that his political ideology depends on how much money a client can pay him.
April 28th, 2007 at 6:25 pmComment by truthfairy #17
…what a fu*king idiot…
…after you did…
…who’d defend your stupid a*s?
April 28th, 2007 at 8:23 pmIf I had pulled that crap on my job I would have been fired!
April 28th, 2007 at 9:40 pmAh yes, pg 36, Rethug playbook…
“When caught with your hands in the cookie jar, belligerantly accuse your opponents of doing exactly what you’ve be caught doing, whilst simultaneously blaming them for your behavior.”
Really, isn’t it time to jusr RICO the friggin’ lot of ‘em?
April 28th, 2007 at 10:15 pmFAKE CRISIS?????
April 30th, 2007 at 9:59 am#28 Not a fake crisis!
April 30th, 2007 at 1:55 pmMr. Wolfowitz took the job knowing that his lady friend already worked at the bank! He knew this would cause a problem, and it did. So he had Ms. Riza transferred to the state department– and raised her salary as well. Some seemingly intelligent people are really as dumb as dirt, aren’t they?