"Wolfowitz hires top lawyer to keep job" Hires Clinton Lawyer, Robert Bennett...

[KoKo]

Wolfowitz hires top lawyer to keep job

By Krishna Guha in Washington and Hugh Williamson in Berlin

Published: April 23 2007 22:18 | Last updated: April 23 2007 22:18

World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz has hired Bill Clinton’s former lawyer Robert Bennett as an adviser as the board investigation into the Shaha Riza controversy entered a critical phase.

Members of the seven-man panel of board members are expected to reach a decision this week as to whether Mr Wolfowitz broke bank rules or ethics when he instructed the bank’s human resources chief to offer his girlfriend a large pay rise as part of a secondment package.

Mr Bennett, a partner at Skadden, Arps, is best known for representing former US president Bill Clinton against sexual harassment claims.

Mr Bennett told the FT: “I am engaged by Mr Wolfowitz and will be advising him in this somewhat complex manner.” Mr Bennett, who said he had read the papers relating to the case, said: “I do not believe he did anything wrong, and that he acted in eminent good faith.”

Mr Wolfowitz used a different lawyer, Robert Barnett, a partner at Williams & Connolly, in the original negotiations.

Pressure is piling up on Mr Wolfowitz to resign after the submission of a indictment of his leadership by the bank’s Independent Evaluation Group and an open letter from 42 former top executives calling on him to go. But the bank president still has some supporters in the US, where the White House last week reiterated its confidence in him.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8386dedc-f1ca-11db-b5b6-000b5df10621.html

[randr]

1. What drives these assholes?

You would think the public humiliation would compel them to resign. The disgrace in front of their peers. Their apparent ineptitude of performance.
What the hell are they on?

[KoKo]

3. It's starting to look like it's so vast that all they can do is "cover up."

Their Audacity is astounding. They will make it impossible for any President ever to come in and do anything if they keep this up. And...I for one...don't want another DeLay or Hastert Congress running America.

They've got us between Iraq and a Hard Place...or A "Rock" and a "Hard Place."

They've ruined our Democracy and government. It will be a battle between Grover Norquist, NeoCons and the "Fringe Left" as they and some in our own Dem Party refer to us.

:shrug:

[Vinca]

4. Comb juice. It must be the comb juice.

:rofl:

[MichiganVote]

2. Ok, I take it back. Wolfowicz IS the most arrogant of them all