Posted on 04/16/2007 9:44:35 AM PDT by Wuli
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
The World Bank released its files in the case of President Paul Wolfowitz's ethics on Friday, and what a revealing download it is. On the evidence in these 109 pages, it is clearer than ever that this flap is a political hit based on highly selective leaks to a willfully gullible press corps.
Mr. Wolfowitz asked the World Bank board to release the documents, after it became possible the 24 executive directors would adjourn early Friday morning without taking any action in the case. This would have allowed Mr. Wolfowitz's anonymous bank enemies to further spin their narrative that he had taken it upon himself to work out a sweetheart deal for his girlfriend and hide it from everyone.
The documents tell a very different story--
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Note to Paul : Never dip your pen in the bank’s ink well.
Bump. Good post.
This is a duplicate thread. There’s already at least one on this.
You said — “Note to Paul : Never dip your pen in the bank’s ink well.”
It would appear that the bank dipped its own pen in its ink well...
Note from the article —
“The paper trail shows that Mr. Wolfowitz had asked to recuse himself from matters related to his girlfriend, a longtime World Bank employee, before he signed his own employment contract. The bank’s general counsel at the time, Roberto Danino, wrote in a May 27, 2005 letter to Mr. Wolfowitz’s lawyers: ...”
[ ... ]
“Ms. Riza was on a promotion list at the time, and so the bank’s ethicists also proposed that she be compensated for this blow to her career. In a July 22, 2005, ethics committee discussion memo, Mr. Danino noted that “there would be two avenues here for promotion—an ‘in situ’ promotion to Grade GH for the staff member” and promotion through competitive selection to another position.” Or, as an alternative, “The Bank can also decide, as part of settlement of claims, to offer an ad hoc salary increase.”
Five days later, on July 27, ethics committee chairman Ad Melkert formally advised Mr. Wolfowitz in a memo that “the potential disruption of the staff member’s career prospect will be recognized by an in situ promotion on the basis of her qualifying record . . .” In the same memo, Mr. Melkert recommends “that the President, with the General Counsel, communicates this advice” to the vice president for human resources “so as to implement” it immediately.”
So..., there we have it...
Regards,
Star Traveler
your post is a duplicate of post 4 - please check for posts requesting posters not to post duplicate posts before posting duplicate requests not to post duplicate posts.
I don’t get too bothered by duplicate posts. What really gets to me is duplicate posts requesting posters not to post duplicate posts. ;-)
Hope I was not rude. If you look to your right, there’s a section called ‘editorials’ and you can look down the side of it. I always look there to see what’s already up. Please don’t feel bad, I’ve done duplicate posts myself by mistake, it happens to everyone.
No you were not rude at all.
I appreciate the notice that I missed something, because then I have missed the comments to the earlier post as well.
My problem was that I never start at the FR “Home” page.
The initial link for FR that I chose all the time is my http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse
link in my browser’s history.
Thanks for pointing me to check the Home page links on “topics” as well.
Of course, when using those links one must assume that someone who posted an “editorial” also indicated “editorial” as a topic for that post when they set it up.
Thanks for your help.
I am not worthy!!!
LOL! This is precisely why I don't get involved in these issues of being beat to the punch...
In thee War on Duplication, I believe it is the duty of us all to fight Satan Xerox.
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