Employees of the World Bank have been “expressing concern, dismay, and outrage” regarding favoritism shown by the bank and the Bush administration towards the one-time girlfriend of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, according to an internal memo circulated within the bank by the World Bank Group Association, which represents the rights of the bank’s 13,000 employees.
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I found the whole New Yorker piece well worth a read.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/09/070409fa_fact_cassidy
Pablo
Thanks for the link. I hadn’t seen the full article – it is, as you say, well worth reading in full.
Owen
It’s a wonderful irony. Paul Wolfowitz makes corruption the centre-piece of his time at the World Bank and then this. How exactly does Mr Wolfowitz think corruption happens? It’s countless little acts like this one. Well done to the staff for making a noise. It’s a disgrace.
If you are interested in following this in more depth, please see http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3227.aspx which seems to be rather well informed from the inside, including links to comments on the internal Staff Association website…
It’s instructive to reflect on the fact that Wolfowitz predicted a cakewalk in Iraq and noted that there was no history of ethnic conflict in that country. He must be equally clueless when it comes to personal relationships. This is certainly a case of conflict of interest. Too often the Bushies have shown that power in the public realm is little more than the opportunity to promote self-interest or the interests of friends and family members. If they were blood relatives, the word would be nepotism. If not, then really bad judgment.