Posted on 04/19/2007 4:25:11 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
The future of Paul Wolfowitz, the embattled President of the World Bank, was in further jeopardy last night after it emerged that the White House was drawing up a list of candidates to succeed him.
Most prominent on th list is Ashraf Ghani, the man credited with overhauling the economy of Afghanistan after September 11, The Times has learnt. Such an appointment would mark the first time a nonAmerican has held the position in the 60-year history of the global lender.
Senior officials in the US Administration have noted that the White House is softening the tone of its support for President Bush’s former Deputy Defence Secretary. They pointed yesterday to the silence of the Treasury Department and Henry Paulson, the Treasury Secretary, as an indication of the Administration’s attempt to distance itself from the man it parachuted into the job in 2005. Mr Wolfowitz appeared yesterday before a meeting of the World Bank’s 24-nation board, which is investigating whether he broke any rules in arranging a high-paying job at the US State Department for his partner, Shaha Riza, in 2005.
Publicly, the Administration continued to give him support yesterday. Dana Perino, Mr Bush’s spokeswoman, said that the board should be allowed to complete its inquiry. “As we’ve said before, the President has confidence in Paul Wolfowitz,” she said.
However, the multilateral lender increasingly appears paralysed by the allegations of scandal. This week Graeme Wheeler, one of Mr Wolfowitz’s two deputies, called for him to resign.
(Excerpt) Read more at business.timesonline.co.uk ...
“As we’ve said before, the President has confidence in Paul Wolfowitz,” she said.”
“Wolfie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
And supposedly he was drawing up a list of candidates to immediately replace Gonzales...whenever the story first came out, which I believe was over a month ago. And Gonzales is still there.
Yeah, and I think I heard that Cheney was leaving at least 10 times.
Please file under “W’ for Wishful Thinking.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.