Wolfowitz is costing the World Bank $5 million a year in personal security

[kurth]

Wolfowitz hurt bank's reputation, says inquiry
By Tim Shipman in Washington, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 1:29am BST 29/04/2007

World Bank officials investigating Paul Wolfowitz have concluded that he did breach ethics rules when he helped engineer get a promotion and a pay rise for his girlfriend.

The preliminary conclusions of the special panel of the bank's board will intensify the campaign by Mr Wolfowitz's critics to force him to resign as president...

Opponents have stepped up pressure by revealing that Mr Wolfowitz is costing the World Bank $5 million a year in personal security because he is such a prominent target for terrorists.

A senior bank source told The Sunday Telegraph: "It's a huge sum. We shouldn't have to be paying to protect him." A former senior employee added: "When his predecessor, Jim Wolfensohn, went on foreign trips, even to the Middle East, he was invariably met by the local country office driver, who would pick him up in a battered Volvo. Now, everywhere Wolfowitz goes he has to be accompanied by personal protection people."...

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[Fresh_Start]

1. keep him on. eliminate the security detail

problem will take care of itself.

In fact, the first action of the Congress in 2008 should be to eliminate Secret Service protection for former presidents and their family members. Due to the fiscal failure of the Bush administration, the country cannot afford to protect its defectives anymore.

[RL3AO]

5. They did in 1997

all Presidents after Clinton will only receive 10 years of protection.

[AlCzervik]

10. i bet after Jrs. 10 years are up his security per year will be at least double

what Wolfowitz's is. There will be no place outside of Crawford he'll be welcome and hell i bet half of crawford hates him too.

[LiberalFighter]

11. They should take away protection for Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford

They don't IMO need it because who wants to take time to harm them?

In fact, for those that still qualify for lifetime protection the wives (husbands) of Presidents should lose protection 5 years after their spouse dies.

[izzie]

6. Frankly I think they should take a lot away from them all

Why are the people paying for this years after they work for us? These people get rich in their jobs let them do it them self if they really need it. Another thing they should do is take air force one away and have it just for the peoples business. Bush and Clinton used it to much for running for office. The days of the 'Czar' having his own ship is over.

[RL3AO]

7. I dont think you can put a price on any American Presidents life.

[izzie]

8. Well maybe the ex but

for the rest of the people and what they get after they leave it is just to far out. Even in office it is getting silly. If they all had to live like reg. people I think we would see a little brain power being used.

[AlCzervik]

2. he is really over valued, there is now way he is worth 5 mill in security, no

he brings zippidyfuckingdoodah to the table.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. And who makes that $5Mill?

Oh, just someone like Blackwater or whatnot. Because they are part of the whole thing: take those highly-trained Specops killers and make them THEIR highly-trained Specop killers and private army. On the public dime.

Boyee, does Blackwater need investigating.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. They almost got him in Iraq & he never went back there.

He belongs in a zoo.

[IChing]

9. I know I can build a Zoo for him for $5,000,000

and keep all the other creatures like him there for that price.