Posted on 12/06/2009 6:42:46 PM PST by Nachum
Here's a poser: Suppose a public official is accused of recommending his girlfriend for a promotion, though he was the one who first flagged the potential conflict of interest and officials had refused to let him recuse himself from decisions about the woman. Should he lose his job?
That's precisely what happened in 2007 to Paul Wolfowitz, who was run out of the World Bank on the pretext that he had given his girlfriend a raise. In fact, Mr. Wolfowitz had made bank officials aware that his girlfriend already worked at the bank before he accepted the job as president, and bank officials had raised no objection to the job change that removed his girlfriend from any direct reporting to Mr. Wolfowitz. The ethical uproar was a politically convenient excuse, fanned by the media, to oust Mr. Wolfowitz when his real offense was that he was too hard on corruption.
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Who has that “Their corruption doesn’t count” graphic?
and why are the cowadrly GOPers not screaming about this??? can’t blame the rat-wingers for this crap- they get away with it and are never taken to task by “our” party...
Sen. Tim Johnson’s (D-SD) son was recently appointed US District Attorney for South Dakota. A coincidence?
Never heard that before.
My, who does control the present controls the past controls the future.
Nostradamus has been replaced by Orwell
msm only cares about republican scandals.
Or - Wilbur Mills (D-Ark., Chairman of something or other at the time) and Fannie Fox - in Washington, DC, no less!
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