CEO met 27-year-old on gay fetish site, not a walk in the park
Times (UK) May 1, 07 9:59 PM CDT
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The chief executive of U.K. energy giant BP stepped down unexpectedly today, after a court ruled he had lied about details of his relationship with a 27-year-old man, and the House of Lords decided he couldn't keep a tabloid from printing them. Lord Browne of Madingley lavished the student with gifts, and allegedly even gave away trade secrets.
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Wall Street Journal May 1, 07 6:07 AM CDT
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Besieged World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz suggested for the first time that he would resign his post—but only if he is first cleared of wrongdoing in ordering promotions and pay raises for his girlfriend Shaha Riza, reports the Wall Street Journal . A committee of the bank's board, investigating the charges, heard from Wolfowitz and Riza yesterday.
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Politico Apr 26, 07 7:39 AM CDT
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John McCain joins the chorus calling for Alberto Gonzales to resign. In an interview after officially launching his campaign in New Hampshire, McCain told the Politico that the attorney general could no longer usefully serve the president. "I reached that conclusion a long time ago," he said, "I just haven’t been asked.”
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Bennett comes to neocon's aid as former World Bank staff call
for resignation
Washington Post Apr 24, 07 7:32 AM CDT
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Paul Wolfowitz has hired Robert Bennett, Bill Clinton's counsel during the Paula Jones affair, to guide the besieged World Bank president through his own budding scandal. Bennett immediately dismissed talk of Wolfie's resignation, even after dozens of former staffers placed an ad in the Financial Times calling on him to quit.
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Even Republicans turn on AG as he tries to defend US attorney decisions
National Review Apr 20, 07 9:53 AM CDT
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Senate Republicans turned on Alberto Gonzales yesterday, leaving little political wiggle room for the embattled A.G. Even the most mild questions from Republicans— including traditional Bush allies—about the U.S. attorney dismissals yielded embarrassing results for Gonzales, who came across as strangely disengaged from the department he runs.
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Bipartisan criticism peppers AG's Senate testimony on U.S. attorney firings
Washington Post Apr 19, 07 4:53 PM CDT
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said under oath today he had only limited involvement in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys and "did not do anything improper." Testifying before clearly hostile lawmakers, he spurned calls that he step down, saying, "The moment I believe I can no longer be effective, I will resign."
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Gonzales demanded hard line on hardcore
Salon Apr 19, 07 11:40 AM CDT
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Several of the U.S. attorneys axed by Alberto Gonzales may have been forced out because they failed to crack down on pornography, Salon reveals. Gonzales and his staff pressured attorneys to pursue adult obscenity cases, even if it meant yanking prosecutors away from, say, terrorism. Some who resisted got a pink slip.
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Slate Apr 19, 07 8:19 AM CDT
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Unflappable contrarian Chris Hitchens casts a sympathetic eye at beset World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz. Cries for Wolfowitz's resignation have crescendoed since revelations that he had a hand in getting his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a big promotion at the poverty-fighting organization last year.
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Leaked testimony insists any
mistakes made weren't actionable
Los Angeles Times Apr 16, 07 6:59 AM CDT
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Alberto Gonzales will finger chief-of-staff Kyle Sampson as the point man on the U.S. attorney firings but won't cop to any major wrongdoing, an advance copy of his congressional testimony tomorrow reveals. He admits only to lesser sins—withholding "dignified" treatment from pink-slipped U.S. attorneys, for instance—and says it was Sampson who cherry-picked attorneys to ax and suggested potential replacements.
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Neocon World Bank president says he
won't resign
Wall Street Journal Apr 16, 07 6:52 AM CDT
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Embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is hanging tough in the face of a crescendo of calls for his resignation after improperly promoting the interests of his live-in girlfriend. In a weekend of maneuvering, the bank's development committee offered no shelter, issuing a vague but harsh statement that the organization" adhere to a high standard of internal governance."
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Dowd on Wolfowitz: Where's the apology
for Iraq?
New York Times Apr 14, 07 1:44 PM CDT
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The spectacle of Paul Wolfowitz clinging to his post at the World Bank after using it to promote his girlfriend is catnip to Maureen Dowd, an arch critic of the neocon cabal that cooked up the war in Iraq: "You will not be surprised to learn, gentle readers, that Wolfie in love is no less deceptive and bumbling than Wolfie at war."
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It would be perfect
for Gonzales, says
law professor
Newsday Apr 13, 07 1:54 PM CDT
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Impeachment isn't just for presidents—it would suit Alberto Gonzales just fine, says law professor Peter Shane, and it would be an excellent way to restore constitutional checks and balances. The grounds for impeachment go beyond the questionable dismissal of U.S. attorneys, he writes.
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E-mails may have covered attorney firings
Washington Post Apr 13, 07 8:11 AM CDT
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Four years of emails from Karl Rove that are being sought in a congressional investigation are missing and may have been deleted by Rove himself, the Republican National Committee acknowledged yesterday. The RNC operates the server for non-official e-mail accounts Rove and other White House players use for political business; critics say they are also improperly used to circumvent documentation laws.
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World Bank staff boos his apology for pushing girlfriend's promotion
Washington Post Apr 13, 07 6:41 AM CDT
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World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz faced mounting pressure to resign last night as details emerged over his role in ordering a promotion and pay raise for an employee with whom he is romantically involved. Wolfowitz apologized at a press conference and again to a gathering of bank staff members, where he was greeted with boos and chants of "resign, resign."
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