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Wolfowitz Offers to Make Changes
The Washington Post ^ | 19 April 2007 | Karen DeYoung

Posted on 04/19/2007 7:26:02 AM PDT by Kitten Festival

Besieged by rising calls for his resignation, World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz met with the institution's senior management team behind closed doors yesterday to acknowledge problems with his leadership and offer to make significant front-office changes, several knowledgeable bank sources said.

When one participant suggested that Wolfowitz's departure would resolve the problems, Wolfowitz replied that he had no plans to resign and that leaving "under the current circumstances" would not help the institution. Instead, he offered to change his management style and the "structure" of his office. Several officials interpreted that as willingness to remove or limit the authority of two senior aides, former Bush administration officials Robin Cleveland and Kevin Kellems, who have clashed with bank staff members during Wolfowitz's tenure.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: corruption; scandal; wolfowitz; worldbank
He might just win them over if he gets rid of the freakish, screaming Cleveland. Can you imagine what it would be like if a new team came in with Paul, and there was this creepy hatchet woman among them named Robin Cleveland who knew NOTHING about development banking, her ignorance made her rage, she was abrasive and took it out on you, screeching without dignity and then thought you didn't deserve your job while she was pulling in $250K and the boss was going to give her tenure? That alone would be tinder for a staff revolt, way more than the girlfriend scandal, which was just gas in room full of tinder. If Paul can get rid of those two, he might get a vote of confidence from the board. But it also might make him swing leftwing even more to please this board, thinking that's what will please them too. Getting rid of Sceeching Robin is the real thing with them though, so they might say it's ok for him to stay, particularly with Bush continuing to support Wolfie.
1 posted on 04/19/2007 7:26:03 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival

You sound as though you may be closer to this than us. I support Wolfowitz. I think people are trying to railroad him, but you provide some interesting, if not useful, background information.


2 posted on 04/19/2007 7:30:14 AM PDT by Obadiah (Republicans - the battered wives of Democrats.)
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To: Kitten Festival

The whole circus by the anti-american left is about picking apart (and potentially imprisoning) as many “Bushies” and Neocons as possible. DeLay, Libby, Rumsfeld, Bolton are already checked off the list. Now Gonzalez and Wolfowitz the “chief” neocon, are being targetted. They can’t wait to hold hearings on Rove and ultimately impeach Bush/Cheney.

The Democrats and the moonbats have smelled blood since the Plame-thing and now are like rabies.

Therefore Regardless of how well or bad those Bush Administration fellas have done their jobs... we have to fight and stick to our guns. No backing down. No resignations. No apologies.


3 posted on 04/19/2007 7:36:36 AM PDT by SolidWood (Islam is an insanity cult that makes everyone act Arab)
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To: Kitten Festival

The only “change” he needs to make is to get his tail out of there and off overly-generous taxpayer support. Like McNmaara, he was a disaster at the Pentagon, like McNamara, he’s an incompetent disaster at the World Bank.


4 posted on 04/19/2007 7:43:51 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Kitten Festival

Executive Summary:

“Look, I’ll lay off the necessary reforms if you just let me keep my lucrative, tax free job with all the first class travel to world playgrounds.”

Maybe he’ll soon be following Robert McNamara’s example and write a book saying that he knew the Iraq war was wrong back in 2004 but was swept along by an arrogant President.


5 posted on 04/19/2007 7:50:39 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: Kitten Festival

I do not support Wolfoputz. I don’t trust his bedding Muslim chicks. And ugly ones at that. He is a Jew. His mother would be spinning in her grave.


6 posted on 04/19/2007 8:01:01 AM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

I really don’t think he could do, any better. Looks, passed him by a long time ago.


7 posted on 04/19/2007 8:09:29 AM PDT by Capt_Hank (btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
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To: SolidWood

Intriguing analysis, I think there is something interesting about the impact of the plame thing.


8 posted on 04/19/2007 10:00:19 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Capt_Hank

Cripes, why is everyone focusing on their looks? Neither are that bad-looking, they are average-looking, no better or worse than most of us, and it’s a signal they got their jobs because they are smart. What annoys me is their entitlement behavior.


9 posted on 04/19/2007 10:11:09 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival

Well, as my late father would say, “You could place both of them out in a corn field, and crows would bring back corn, they had stole, three years ago.”


10 posted on 04/19/2007 10:16:37 AM PDT by Capt_Hank (btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
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To: Kitten Festival; the Real fifi

Why should we believe you know what you are talking about?

Clearly you have an agenda here...why?


11 posted on 04/19/2007 10:21:54 AM PDT by woofie
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To: SolidWood
“Therefore Regardless of how well or bad those Bush Administration fellas have done their jobs... we have to fight and stick to our guns. No backing down. No resignations. No apologies.”

Oh Yeah.Kool Aid is refreshing, isn't it!

12 posted on 04/19/2007 10:26:57 AM PDT by Rottweilerson (If you want a friend...Feed any animal.)
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To: montag813

“I do not support Wolfoputz. I don’t trust his bedding Muslim chicks”.

Oh come on! If they love each other, why should ethnicity stand in the way? It wasn’t that long ago that some in my family were scandalized when my oldest (Lutheran) aunt married a Catholic man and converted. They stayed married for over 60 years, until he died. They were a wonderful couple. (I say that even though we had VERY divergent political views).


13 posted on 04/19/2007 12:42:51 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: Kitten Festival

I take it he hasn’t resigned or been booted.


14 posted on 04/19/2007 6:13:49 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: the Real fifi
With Bush drawing up a new list, it sounds like he's hanging by a thread. There's news about the Danino guy, he says Wolfie froze him out when he warned him about the dangers of his overly generous Shaha pay package. It's here. Meanwhile, the GAPsters are claiming that Shaha was no volunteer for SAIC, as Victoria Toensing said earlier, but got paid quite a bit of money.
15 posted on 04/19/2007 6:18:29 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival

The Gapsters seem to be stretching—Time and materials figure is substantially higher for the other two consultants and materials costs seem more likely. Toensing has no reason to lie and wouldn’t. In the end it would be harmful to her client.


16 posted on 04/19/2007 6:52:17 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: the Real fifi

I note that the World Bank hired outside counsel (Dunn & Crutcher) to review the terms and like the ethics committee found no impropriety. With further regard to the Gapsters:”WASHINGTON - The Pentagon’s inspector general looked into the Defence Department’s 2003 order for a contractor to hire the girlfriend of then-Pentagon No 2 Paul Wolfowitz, but found no violation to warrant a deeper probe, defence officials said today.

A 2005 investigation by the inspector general found that Shaha Riza, Wolfowitz’s companion and a World Bank employee, was qualified to serve as an expert to carry out a study related to Iraq, investigation results show.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Wolfowitz may have recommended Riza for the job, but she was also recommended by others and was uniquely qualified.”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10435186


17 posted on 04/19/2007 6:59:12 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: the Real fifi

I have a hard time believing Toensing would lie, too.


18 posted on 04/19/2007 8:39:32 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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