ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY

Wolfowitz's main squeeze, Shaha Riza, made some extra money because of the Iraq War. Al Kamen on 4/9/2007 relates that:

...the March issue of Vanity Fair, in an article about huge defense contractor SAIC, says that, in the run-up to the Iraq invasion in 2003, SAIC's "subject-matter experts . . . were expected to lend a hand" to the Pentagon on various matters, such as "business development, . . . the role of women in government, and government reform."

"Among SAIC's subject-matter experts," the article says, "was Shaha Riza, an Arab feminist and communications adviser at the World Bank. Riza also happened to be the girlfriend of Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense."

Unless she got bank permission to do this outside work, that would be a violation of bank rules, according to the Government Accountability Project's international director, Bea Edwards.