Pentagon Looks At Wolfowitz Paper Trail
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is reviewing a 2003 contract that went to a World Bank employee and companion to Paul Wolfowitz, then the no. 2 official at the Defense Department.
Spokesman Bryan Whitman said yesterday that the department is “having to go back and look at the paper trail” because some people who were with the department at the time of the contract have left.
He stopped short of calling it an investigation.
Mr. Whitman’s comments come after Science Applications International Corp., a large defense contractor, said it was directed to hire Shaha Riza, at the time a communications adviser in the bank’s Middle East Department.
Mr. Wolfowitz, now president of the World Bank, is fighting to keep his job after disclosing that he was directly involved in arranging a promotion and raises for Ms. Riza after he came to the development agency.
