White House Insider Forced From World Bank Gig Will Now Head Powerful Arms Control Panel
(AP) Former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz will head a high-level advisory panel on arms control and disarmament, the State Department said Thursday.The move by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice marks a return to government for Wolfowitz, a conservative with close ties to the White House. As deputy defense secretary under President Bush, he was a major architect of the Iraq war.
Wolfowitz was replaced as World Bank chief last June after a stormy two-year tenure. His leadership was undermined by a furor over a hefty compensation package he arranged in 2005 for a bank employee who was also his girlfriend. ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/24/politics/main3750568.shtml
I just don't even know what to say about this deal. Evidently this is the Bush administrations "Good Ole' Boy" system at in all it's glory. And they don't even care who knows. Can we survive another year of this? HT
