[lbo-talk] WP on Wolfowitz's girlfriend as part of a pattern

[Michael Pollak]

For me, there were two especially juicy new tidbits in this story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041401564.html?referrer=emailarticle

(1) that he did exactly the same sort of salary thing for the two 
unqualified cronies he famously brought with him to the Bank, as well as for 
himself, establishing this as his MO (the secondment aspect, which is the 
only different thing about the Riza case, is also the only part that isn't 
news); and (2) that part of why this became an ethics problem in the first 
place was that he never recused himself.  What a surprise -- he lied!  And 
not only did he lie in a classically Bushit way -- I recuse myself but I 
still want to maintain "professional contact" i.e., control her personnel 
fate -- he actually wrote it in CAPITAL LETTERS just so no one should miss 
it.

What a paradigmatic piece of work.

Michael