WP: Wolfowitz Promises Changes in Leadership (but won't resign)

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Wolfowitz Promises Changes in Leadership
World Bank Chief Won't Resign, Lawyer Says

By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 24, 2007; Page A12

World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz met yesterday with senior
managers to promise unspecified changes in his leadership and to
appeal for their help, even as he hired a prominent defense lawyer
to represent him.

"I want to make sure his rights are fully protected," said Robert
S. Bennett, whom Wolfowitz retained on Saturday. On Friday, the
World Bank executive board named an ad hoc committee to
consider "conflict of interest, ethical, reputational, and other
relevant standards" in judging Wolfowitz's performance, including
his role in setting the terms of a pay and promotion package for
his girlfriend, a bank employee.

"He is not going to resign," Bennett said after meeting with
Wolfowitz this weekend. "His mood is just fine. . . . He feels
people are trying to interfere with his job to get at world poverty,
and he wants to get this thing behind him so that he can
concentrate 100 percent of his effort."

Bennett said the process should slow down and give Wolfowitz"
an opportunity to present his side. . . . It would be grossly
unfair to him and it would not speak well of the World Bank if
they rush to judgment without giving us a reasonable time to
put together an appropriate presentation."

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301744.html

[Donnachaidh]

1. He's going to learn how to hide his ethically challenged decisions better.

That's the only change that will happen. :sarcasm:

[Botany]

2. Ah, Paul the changes that the bank wants is your ass gone.

[CJCRANE]

3. Time for the comb-sucker to go n/t

[TwilightGardener]

4. So neither he nor Gonzales will step down--the ARROGANCE

of those involved in this admin, even after deceit and corruption are exposed, is stunning. This tells us that they feel they are quite safe, maybe even immune--Chimpy will protect them. We can do absolutely nothing about this criminal enterprise, I am convinced.

[marmar]

5. "So neither he nor Gonzales will step down--the ARROGANCE"

Exactly..... Gonzo, Wolfie - don't go away mad. Just go away.