Season Of The Witch Hunt

A few liberal commenter's have taken exception to my not having posted on the whole DOJ affair. While I reserve the right to post on whatever I want to, or not do so - the fact is, I see it as nothing but another witch hunt ala the Libby deal and I refuse to pimp that garbage.

The fired individuals were employed at will and subject to being removed for any reason, including political disagreement. Rather than pursue legislation that might help this nation, like passing a decent supplemental for Iraq. as always, the Democrats are putting politics before their national duties and acting as the traitors that they are in large part.

Now in looks as though the World Bank is having a bit of a with hunt, too.

But FOX News has analyzed more than 100 pages of internal bank documents dating to 2005 that paint a far more complex portrait of the case – and suggests that the bank’s own ethics committee had known the terms of the settlement with Riza for at least a year.

The documents show that while Wolfowitz did indeed dictate the lucrative terms of Riza’s salary to the bank’s human resources chief, he also took steps to try and determine if what he was doing was right – seemingly trying to navigate his way through an arcane bureaucracy with a maze of unusual rules and procedures.

The documents also show that, while many board members have claimed that they only learned the details of Riza’s case – and salary hike — this week in newspapers, the board’s Ethics Committee has been fully aware of all the details since early 2006, when it conducted a probe and determined that the allegations “did not appear appropriate for further consideration.”

The documents paint a more sympathetic picture of Wolfowitz and his efforts to deal with the situation than what’s been revealed in the press thus far. And they shine a light on the bank’s board as having far more knowledge of the case than members have let on in off-record talks with the media.

They also raise the specter of whether politics is driving at least some aspects of the scandal – as Wolfowitz and the board have long had a tense and sometimes acrimonious relationship over such vital issues as how to deal with corruption among bank borrowers who are also the institution’s membership.

Comments

[scarshapedstar]

A witch hunt? He's already admitted wrongdoing and taken "full responsibility".

Of course, these days, that means nothing. Sure as hell doesn't mean you resign. Just means we, uh... I don't know, look at you funny, or something.

[LOL]

Dan, you're really not very different from Riza, so I can see why you're sympathetic. Cashing large checks for vital lip-service. I guess it beats having to get a real job.

[LOL]

and please Dan, just imagine -if you will for just one minute- that Wolfowitz was a Democrat. How would you react? Why don't you tell me that

[Dan Riehl]

How would you react?

If he were doing something to clean up the incrediblly serious corruption at the WB, I'd support him. But then, if he were doing that, he wouldn't be a Democrat. It was a dumb move politically, but he appears to have taken it through the ethics committee. I've yet to see anything say she wasn't qualified.

[Dan Riehl]

I'll add, I also wont be outraged if they toss him out. While he may not be corrupt, he's obviously stupid.

[LOL]

well it seems the bank is investigating it. And don't lie to us Dan, if it was a Democrat, you'd be all about tossing him out, and then some.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=azArNTu_2_Nc&refer=home

Bank's investigating it, so more will come.

" Pay Increase

Riza was given a 36 percent raise that the Staff Association, which represents 13,000 employees, says is twice as large as bank rules allow."

I feel sorry that you are forced to support Conservatives no matter what. But you wouldn't want to lose your wingnut welfare checks. Might have to get a real job.

[Phoenix]

",,, he's obviously stupid."

Yeah. For going through all the proper channels to get it right and then thinking all was well. He was stupid to think doing the right thing would keep him from the hounds. He'd been better off getting caught getting a blowjob in his office.

[BobInStamford]

If he gets fired, he will have more time to look for all of those pesky WMDs that he was warning you idiots about.

Surge on!!!

[Phoenix]

Bob in Stamford had a little goat
His fleece was shreds and nappy
But Bob was first to sing and gloat
My pet's butt makes me so goddamn happy!

[benrand]

What has Fatbody Berger fessed up to?

Oh, I forgot, we need to forget about what he did. "Scooter" Libby lied about something inconsequential.

Maybe he'd have been better off if he was banging interns in the middle of the day.

[vetter]

Shorter Scarp: Uh, i had a thought here a while age
Shorter lol: link(to nonsense, link, link, link to obtuse antti-Americanism) **because I can!!**
Shorter lol: "not very different," "just imagine," and "wingnut welfare checks"
SURGE ON, assmonkeys!
Check and mate.

[Buzzy]

I just took a poll and nobody cares what the World Bank does. If Wolfie was smart he'd just give every female employee a 36% raise and then ask the DEMs why they hate women so much. I mean its not like they don't have all the money in the "world"... right?

[daveinboca]

Wolfowitz is being hounded for reasons having nothing to do with anything except left-wing politics of hatred in DC and the hatred of fifty Muslim nations in the World Bank for a Jewish man with a Muslim girl-friend. Just hatred of Jews, which quaintly used to be called anti-Semitism, but is now all the rage in the EU. Gotta blame somebody, and it's not PC to blame the actual perps.

[bloodrage bob]

this is the part where all the liberals who defended bubba & vernon jordan "helping out" poor hooverina lewinski all jump and in decry the "politics of personal destruction!" vis-a-vis wolfowitz.

not to do so would of course be indicative of *enormous* hypocrisy on their part. on that everyone agrees. let's listen in on their outraged cries now, shall we?

(crickets chirping)(tumbleweeds blowing down deserted streets)

hmmmm. whatever can we infer about liberals from their troubling silence, class?

[Buzzy]

But BB can't you see that it's different... somehow. Oh yeah, Wolfie didn't lie about it or try to hide it.

[LOL]

i dont remember clinton taking tax dollars to give lewinsky a fat check for all her blowjobs.

You're right to point out the events are similar

the difference is cons have to pay for it

[Purple Avenger]

I remember tax dollars, millions of them, being spent on the flap that ensued, and a wag the dog war being launched to distract the public's opinion.

[BobInStamford]

"Bob in Stamford had a little goat"

You mean like My Pet Goat - the book the stuttering male cheerleader was reading on 9/11 and was determined to get through? You have quite a hero you patriots have there.

Best wishes with that SURGE of yours. Carry on, heroes!!

[Purple Avenger]

"You mean like My Pet Goat"

Been to Ennumclaw WA lately Bob?

[templar knight]

"You have quite a hero you patriots have there".

Huh? Bob must have been hooked up with his goat while attempting to post. Phoenix, you inspired Bob. Someone, call the Humane Society, and I'm not sure which animal they should save first, Bob or the goat.

[BobInStamford]

Templar Knight, patriot, oil baron and father of children in PRIVATE SCHOOL.

[Zifnab]

"If he were doing something to clean up the incrediblly serious corruption at the WB, I'd support him. But then, if he were doing that, he wouldn't be a Democrat."

You could have just said IOKIARDI, Dan. Saves bandwidth. But this pretty much says it all. Wolfwitz is clean. He has to be. Because he's a Republican. If he was a Democrat, he'd be guilty. He'd have to be, because he's a Democrat. Dan will go into apoplectic shock on Harry "Land Shark" Reid and Obama-Osama Bin Saddam Hussien for taking extended lunch breaks at the capital, then insist a money-for-sex scandal at the World Bank didn't happen after the guy accused of the crime has already confessed.

I'm reminded of the CEO at Ford who got a $25 million bonus while his company was running in the red, because his contracted stated he automatically met his first quarter goals without actually meeting any first quarter goals. Republicans have a "contract with America", and that contract states they're automatically cleaning up corruption, even if they aren't actually cleaning up corruption. You can't argue with them, you can't oppose them, and you certainly can't run against them, because they're under contract - a contract that says they're always right.

What a great way to run a business. Now I can see why the American Car Industry and the American Government Industry have been doing so amazingly well these last few years.

"Bob must have been hooked up with his goat while attempting to post."

And, truly, the best arguement that can ever be thrown at in a debate is "Oh yeah... well... you have intercourse with four legged animals!"

[LOL]

yeah, wag the dog war, against osama, we should have never sent missiles at his bases in sudan

[Phoenix]

IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT!

I found Bob's picture. http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/chat_roomers.jpg

dang.... oooooh, dang.....

[BobInStamford]

Hey, real funny - for some fat lady who posts crap on 4th rate bulletin boards late on Saturday nights. You must be having a heck of a birthday. Go talk to your cats.

Surge on!

[Phoenix]

hahaha... Thanks, Bob. I think it's real funny, too. I like those panties you have on.

I'm not fat. 5'5", 127 pounds. No cats. Having a great birthday, thanks. :)

[Phoenix]

Oh... what you don't know is what I do before I sign on late on Saturday nights. heh....

[LOL]

I'm sure you are having a great birthday, that's why you're posting here.

[templar knight]

Phoenix, after looking at BobinStamford's picture, I think he ate the goat, and used the hide for his man panties. Must have been one hell of a big goat! Oh, surge on, Bob.

[Zifnab]

"yeah, wag the dog war, against osama, we should have never sent missiles at his bases in sudan"

Between Sadam and Darfur, I'm beginning to think Republicans have some sort of illness where they physically can't see the country. Or maybe they're running on the "What happens in Sudan, stays in Sudan" policy. Or perhaps they just spell Sudan differently than the rest of us (Ira-something-something, either a "q" or an "n", I can never remember).

Either way - Republicans = worst. foreign. policy. analysts. evar!

[Hard Right]

"Either way - Republicans = worst. foreign. policy. analysts. evar!"

Um yeah, Carter and Clinton were geniuses. Zif you'll say anything regardless of how stupid it is to TRY and be an asshole. Like in life, you've failed again.

Phoenix, good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read your rhyme.

[Peach]

I read the report on the Wolfowitz - which details all the compliance and determinations of no wrong doing. In any event it's apparent LOL hasn't learned of it. Also, if we could just get Diane Feinstein to exhibit one ounce of this transparency on all of her war profiteering the left might have a point.

[bloodrage bob]

whaaaat?? what's this?? a liberal has *finally* noticed the ongoing genocide in darfur, and is (quite tepidly) suggesting the formation of an exploratory committee to schedule the nominating process for delegates to elect candidates to consider a date to discuss the possibility of designating a meeting place to someday get around to discussing the genocide?

y'all crack me up, ziffy. 500,000 darfurians dead - yes, that's a fairly accurate number. the government of sudan doesn't publish fatality stats, for some reason - and the liberal democrats, heppful fren' to de po' black man, FINALLY start to make some noise.

this is actually an improvement, i guess: back when *800,000* rwandans were butchered on bubba's watch, while he resolutely sat on his ass and refused to do anything, ("hey! they're *only* mere africans!", bubba was quoted as saying.)(american media refused to publish the quote), back then, you liberals had....*nothing at all* to say about it.

now, since bush is president, you see this as another fine opportunity to bash him, huh? a few quick questions for the liberal idiots:
1) why should the US intervene? haven't you liberal idiots been telling us for 4 years now that "interfering with another nation is WRONG!"?
2) are you racist liberals suggesting that black/african/muslim sudanese can't be allowed to run their own country? that we have to step in and run it for them? how racist can you guys BE????
3) if we should commit US troops to help the darfurians, they'll be fired upon by the black/african/muslims currently committing the genocide. we can expect the genociders to use the classic african/muslim tactic of "bravely hiding behind women & kids while they shoot". will you squeal like bitches when our guys return fire, necessarily killing the innocents the african muslims PLACED INTO the line of fire?
4) or will you want out guys to "not shoot back and hope for the best", as you're insisting they do in iraq?
5) why should bush do this when you've told us that doing things like this is a violation of the Prime Directive? are you saying you can be trusted not to stab him (and the troops) in the back by whining at the top of your lungs about every single casualty?
6) yeah, right.

[Hard Right]

NO blood for oil! BB, you forgot to mention that the Chinese have oil interests there. If we go in it's only to steal the oil or help China rape them economically. You liberals have no shame!

[templar knight]

*crickets chirping*