Wolfowitz to Return to Bush Administration As Policy Advisor With Access to Classified Information

Wolfowitz to Return to Bush Administration As Policy Advisor With Access to Classified Information

An Old Face Resurfaces
The Bush administration has offered the former World Bank president a new public service position.

By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
Dec 10, 2007 Issue

Don't ever say the Bush administration doesn't take care of its own. Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank—amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend—he's in line to return to public service. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters. The 18-member panel, which has access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters. "We think he is well suited and will do an excellent job," said one senior official.

Wolfowitz, now a visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, will replace former senator Fred Thompson, who quit over the summer to run for president. Although officials declined to say how Rice came to choose him, Wolfowitz began his government career in the 1970s in the State Department as an arms-control expert; he forged a relationship with Rice during the 2000 presidential campaign, when they both served as top foreign-policy advisers to the then candidate Bush. But his selection has raised more than a few eyebrows within State because he'll be providing advice on some of the same issues that critics say the administration got spectacularly wrong when Wolfowitz was pushing the case for the Iraq War at the Pentagon. (One of the department sources called the appointment "amazing.") At least Wolfowitz, who did not return calls seeking comment, will have like-minded company: other panel members include Robert Joseph, the former National Security Council official in charge of Iraq WMD intelligence, and ex-CIA director James Woolsey, both strong allies during the Iraq debate.

The sources said Wolfowitz has already accepted Rice's offer to fill the part-time position, though it won't be announced until the completion of a standard check for conflicts of interest. But he won't have to worry about any complaints from pesky Democrats. The position doesn't require Senate confirmation.

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think you got rid of them and they keep popping up.

for bobo's Center for Excellence.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2386942&mesg_id=2390244

Maybe one or two billion dollars tops???????????

Hey Nancy Pelosi .... bush & Cheney know you will not do shit and
will keep on murdering, stealing, spying, & lying.

Doesn't anyone ever get penalized for being WRONG in this admin?
They just put the crap back on the cracker and serve it again! :eyes:

I hear Rumsfeld is available, too. Unless, the Frenchies nabbed him with that Torture Subpoena.

Ole Comb Licker is off to destroy something else in his path.

Wonder what the damage will be this time?

"Heckuva Job, Comb Licker"

That he has plenty of conflicts of interests, it's a pre-requisite for working in Dubya's Treehouse.

In Addition to being a Crony...the man knows crap to be an advisor....Crap I tell ya...

...does stand-up comedy about the fact that he got us into war over WMDs that never existed.

President Bush at 2004 White House Correspondents Dinner

If Bush was running a Football team...his choice of assistant coaches would bring them a zero and 12 season...

BushCo has been the WORST of the WORST.....

Aided by the GOP who sucked from the gitgo...made it even Worser than Worse

The Worst Administration in the WORLD and all of HUMAN HISTORY....

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel...At least Wolfowitz, who did not return calls seeking comment, will have like-minded company: other panel members include Robert Joseph, the former National Security Council official in charge of Iraq WMD intelligence, and ex-CIA director James Woolsey, both strong allies during the Iraq debate.

that one. Won't go away.

Whose turn is it to come back next? Perle? Asscrotch?

I kept thinking of cockroaches in the kitchen. You just spray and spray and spray, but they still got away.:smoke:

Like roaches, they will survive.

in nicely with rudy and his then girlfriend scandal.

...they pull out something like this. They have to dig ditches to keep lowering the bar.

Waxman needs to stand up to the plate and announce that he'll hold public hearings into Wolfie's role in espionage and DoD falsification of Iraq and Iran WMD intelligence.

But, he won't.

a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board,

A kick cuz I still can't get over that sentence. Unbelievable. Not only is there no accountability, these cockroaches are still gainfully employed by us and responsible for our wellbeing. Condi is worse than Brownie was.

their salaries... Obviously they need him since Cheney is out sick

http://campusprogress.org/newswire/2255/the-return-of-paul-wolfowitz">The Return of Paul Wolfowitz





Campus Progress
December 4, 2007






The Bush Administration loves to recycle its war criminals.


This will unleash a fury.