After leaving the World Bank in disgrace Wolfowitz returns to Bush administration as WMD adviser

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/03/wolfowitz-returns/

Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that Iraq war architect Paul Wolfowitz has been rewarded with a new position in the Bush administration which will allow him to oversee classified intelligence and inform policies on WMD issues:

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.

Prior to the Iraq war, Wolfowitz established the Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon to skirt the intelligence community and peddle the most egregiously false claims of Iraqi WMD. In a Jan. 2003 speech, Wolfowitz referenced “Iraqi efforts to procure uranium from abroad” despite the fact that the claim had already been discredited by the CIA. A few months after the Iraq invasion was launched, Wolfowitz admitted that claims of Iraqi WMD was used as a political tool to achieve consensus for the war:

The truth is that, for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason {to go to war}.

less a chairmanship of the International Security Advisory Board?

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It wouldn't be anymore ridiculous.

He is afraid of them because they know too much. That's what I think.

They're all in it together. A den of thieves.

TAKE YOUR FUCKING MILLIONS THAT YOU STOLE FROM THE TAXPAYERS AND GO BUY A FUCKING ISLAND AND GO FUCKING AWAY!!

FOREVER!!!

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a lie, as well. So with this emerging track record, it sounds like they've given Wolfowitz a department without a purpose.