Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Weasel Defense Coming Apart

The friends of Paul Wolfowitz must be smashing beer cans against their foreheads by now:
Paul Wolfowitz yesterday backed away from earlier claims that the World Bank's ethics committee had been kept informed of his handling of the pay and promotion of a colleague with whom he was romantically involved.

The president of the bank said in a letter to a special committee investigating allegations against him that earlier assertions that the bank's board was kept informed referred to an anonymous e-mail it had been sent by an angry member of staff.

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