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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 07:43 AM
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E-Mails Show WOLFOWITZ Girlfriend Recommended By Elizabeth Cheney (Interesting?)
Wolfowitz’s tenure faces fresh test
By Eoin Callan and Krishna Guha in Washington and Hugh Williamson in Berlin

Published: May 10 2007 02:01 | Last updated: May 10 2007 02:01


The report said Mr Wolfowitz told Pentagon investigators he enlisted the help of a World Bank employee with whom he had a “close personal relationship” in “activity supporting the war” in Iraq when he was deputy secretary of defence.

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Although Ms Riza is thought to be the bank employee referred to in the Pentagon report, the name has been blacked out in a copy of the report obtained by the Financial Times.

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Bank officials said the board was also assessing possible conflicts of interest in 2003 when Ms Riza entered into a contract with a company that provides logistics, intelligence and advice to the Pentagon.

E-mails show the company entered into the contract at the direction of Mr Wolfowitz and following a recommendation by state department officials, including Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney, US vice-president. The Pentagon investigation was carried out in 2005 as Mr Wolfowitz was leaving the defence department to join the bank.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/39d5004e-fe85-11db-bdc7-000b5df10621.html
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 07:48 AM
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1. ft.com - is that Fortean Times or Financial Times?
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 07:51 AM
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2. Nepotism on Steroids.
There are no victims here but I hope The World Bank kicks Wolfie out on his ear while changing the rules the demand that the USA selects all Presidents. ;)

In between squeezing out pups, Liz Cheney has done her part to trash sections (replace talented people with political hacks) of The State Department. :(
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 09:10 AM
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9. Just one small clarification
There is no formal rule that the USA selects the president of The World Bank Group. There is however, a convention that the US gets to appoint the president of The World Bank Group and Europe gets to appoint the president of IMF.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 07:52 AM
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3. Liz Cheney, also famed! Washington Post columnist. nt
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 08:04 AM
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5. Is it finally Deliverance on the Beltway?
I am really beginning to believe that a mountain holler isolated since 1776 could not be so inbred.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 07:54 AM
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4. I wonder if she was a condition of Wolfie's employment at th WB?
What a tawdry mess this is turning into; the fact that Cheney's name has surfaced not only makes it tawdrier, but seems to be SOP with this bunch.
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silverlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 08:13 AM
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6. She does not have much taste in recommending girlfriends...
Wolfowitz should have none better -

Look who she married!
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 08:16 AM
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7. Corrupt cronies of a feather are flocking together
Edited on Thu May-10-07 08:16 AM by SpiralHawk
honor-free republicons

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elias7 Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 08:29 AM
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8. ah, now her "resignation as his girlfriend" make sense n/t
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 04:12 PM
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10. Elizabeth Cheney has "helped" a lot of folks-including her old law school pal
Edited on Fri May-11-07 04:14 PM by bobthedrummer
Kyle Sampson. Then there is her treacherous role as Daddy's girl in the State Dept. and the shadow government.

Some other interesting friendships (as well as the Liz Cheney-Shaha Riza one) were discussed in Fridays Child thread archived from 3-31-07

"For the record and in keeping with what we know, so far, here are Karl's girls..."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x548152
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