The White House said on Wednesday that President Bush still had “full confidence” in World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, who faces a storm of criticism for helping arrange a high-paying promotion for his girlfriend.“We still have full confidence, the president has full confidence in President Wolfowitz,” White House spokesman Tony Fratto told reporters.
Wolfowitz, a key Iraq war architect who left the Pentagon in 2005 to become president of the World Bank, played a role in dictating the terms that his girlfriend, bank employee Shaha Riza, would be offered to take an outside assignment.
The bank’s board is examining Wolfowitz’s role in helping to arrange the promotion and the bank’s staff association has called for his resignation.
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