Contractor: Pentagon ordered hiring of Wolfowitz pal
Reuters
04/17/07
The Pentagon ordered a U.S. contractor to hire a World Bank employee and girlfriend of then-Pentagon No. 2 Paul Wolfowitz in 2003 for work related to Iraq, the contractor said on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, said the Defense Department’s policy office directed the company to enter a subcontract with Shaha Riza, under which she spent a month studying ways to form a government in Iraq. Wolfowitz, now president of the World Bank who has led a drive against corruption in developing countries, is under fire, including calls for his resignation, for agreeing to a high-paying promotion for Riza when he took over the bank post. A Pentagon spokesman said he had no information about the contract or SAIC’s statement...
https://tinyurl.com/25rwzo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Contractor Was Told to Hire Wolfowitz Friend
The US Defense Department ordered a contractor to hire Shaha Riza - a World Bank employee and girlfriend of Paul Wolfowitz - in 2003 for work related to Iraq. Wolfowitz, a key Iraq war architect who left the Pentagon in 2005 to become president of the World Bank is already under fire for overseeing a high-paying promotion for his girlfriend.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041807N.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shaha+Riza
04/17/07
The Pentagon ordered a U.S. contractor to hire a World Bank employee and girlfriend of then-Pentagon No. 2 Paul Wolfowitz in 2003 for work related to Iraq, the contractor said on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, said the Defense Department’s policy office directed the company to enter a subcontract with Shaha Riza, under which she spent a month studying ways to form a government in Iraq. Wolfowitz, now president of the World Bank who has led a drive against corruption in developing countries, is under fire, including calls for his resignation, for agreeing to a high-paying promotion for Riza when he took over the bank post. A Pentagon spokesman said he had no information about the contract or SAIC’s statement...
https://tinyurl.com/25rwzo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Contractor Was Told to Hire Wolfowitz Friend
The US Defense Department ordered a contractor to hire Shaha Riza - a World Bank employee and girlfriend of Paul Wolfowitz - in 2003 for work related to Iraq. Wolfowitz, a key Iraq war architect who left the Pentagon in 2005 to become president of the World Bank is already under fire for overseeing a high-paying promotion for his girlfriend.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041807N.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shaha+Riza
rudkla - 18. Apr, 16:07
