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Contractor says was told to hire Wolfowitz friend »

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The U.S. Defense Department ordered a contractor to hire a World Bank employee and girlfriend of then-Pentagon No. 2 Paul Wolfowitz in 2003 for work related to Iraq, the contractor said on Tuesday.

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  • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)DoseASpinoza
    DoseASpinoza
    April 18, 2007, 1:11 p.m.

    "A spokeswoman for Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, said the Defense Department's policy office directed the company to enter a subcontract with Shaha Riza, under which she spent a month studying ways to form a government in Iraq."

    That explains a lot. One of the primary Iraq war architects had his girlfriend spend a whole month figuring out how to set up a new government in a hostile country. Then we sent in the tanks.

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