The report noted that Mr. Wolfowitz broke bank rules and the ethical obligations in his contract, and that he tried to hide the salary and promotion package awarded to Shaha Riza, his companion and a bank employee, from top legal and ethics officials in the months after he became bank president in 2005.

Letter from Paul Wolfowitz to the Minister ( government ) | Ministers of the Member State of the European Union | EU states from December 2001 as part of the US-lobbying campaign against Galileo

James Mann points out: " quite a few neo-conservatives, like Wolfowitz, believed strongly in democratic ideals ; they had taken from the philosopher Leo Strauss the notion that there is a moral duty to oppose a leader who is a ' tyrant.

In 1972, Wolfowitz earned a Ph. D. in political science from the University of Chicago, writing his doctoral dissertation on " nuclear proliferation in the Middle East ".

In 1980, Wolfowitz resigned from the Pentagon and became a visiting professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS ) at Johns Hopkins University.

James Mann points out: " quite a few neo-conservatives, like Wolfowitz, believed strongly in democratic ideals ; they had taken from the philosopher Leo Strauss the notion that there is a moral duty to oppose a leader who is a ' tyrant.

In February 1998 Wolfowitz testified before a Congressional hearing, stating that the current administration lacked the sense of purpose to " liberate ourselves, our friends and allies in the region, and the Iraqi people themselves from the menace of Saddam Hussein.

" with Wolfowitz adding that Iraq was a " brittle, oppressive regime that might break easily — it was doable ," and, according to John Kampfner, " from that moment on, he and Wolfowitz used every available opportunity to press the case.

" Shaha was married at the time and Paul was married ," Candar recalled, and it wasn't until late 1999 — after Riza divorced and Wolfowitz had separated from his wife of 30 years, Clare Selgin Wolfowitz — that the couple began dating.

Wolfowitz initially proposed to the World Bank's Ethics Committee that he recuse himself from personnel matters regarding Riza, but the committee rejected that proposal.

World Bank Group's board of executive directors and staffers complained also that Wolfowitz was imposing Bush Administration policies to eliminate family planning from World Bank programs.

According to Nicole Gaouette, in her report published in the Los Angeles Times on April 19, 2007, Juan José Daboub — the managing director whom Wolfowitz had appointed who has also been criticized for overly-conservative policies concerning climate change and " a Roman Catholic with ties to a conservative Salvadoran political party "— repeatedly deleted references to family planning from World Bank proposals.

*" The ad hoc group concludes that in actuality, Mr Wolfowitz from the outset cast himself in opposition to the established rules of the institution "; and

" By Wednesday, May 16, 2007, The New York Times, reported that " after six weeks of fighting efforts to oust him as president ... Wolfowitz began today to negotiate the terms of his possible resignation, in return for the bank dropping or softening the charge that he had engaged in misconduct ..." After expressions from the Bush administration that it " fully " supported Wolfowitz as World Bank president and its urging a " fair hearing " for him, President Bush expressed " regret " at Wolfowitz's impending resignation.

* Immerman, Richard H. Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz ( 2010 ) pp 196 – 231 excerpt and text search

There was also growing tension between some former PRM members in PKR with the leadership over what was perceived as a growing influence of neoconservatism within the new party stemming from the personal friendship between the party's leader, Anwar Ibrahim and Paul Wolfowitz.

The Office of Special Plans ( OSP ), which existed from September 2002 to June 2003, was a Pentagon unit created by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, and headed by Feith, as charged by then-United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to supply senior George W. Bush administration officials with raw intelligence ( unvetted by intelligence analysts, see Stovepiping ) pertaining to Iraq.

England ( second from left ) at press conference with Paul Wolfowitz, James G. Roche | James Roche and Thomas E. White.

In the mid-1930s, Wolfowitz began his career as high school mathematics teacher and continued teaching until 1942 when he received his Ph. D. degree in mathematics from New York University.

During the administration of George H. W. Bush, Hadley was, " Pentagon aide to Wolfowitz ," serving as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs from 1989 – 1993.

" At that time the official administration line was " containment ", and the contents of Wolfowitz ’ s plan calling for " preemption " and " unilateralism " which was opposed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell and President Bush.

Journalist Walter Pincus points to a passage on page 237 in which Clarke describes a September 4, 2001 meeting of national security principals in which he states Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, " who looked distracted throughout the session, took the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz line that there were other terrorists concerns, like Iraq.

The opposing view, argued by Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a number of influential Department of Defense policy makers such as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, held that direct and unilateral action was both possible and justified and that America should embrace the opportunities for democracy and security offered by its position as sole remaining superpower.

It also contains the notion of military pre-eminence that was reflected in a Department of Defense paper of 1992, " Defense Policy Guidance ", prepared by two principal authors ( Paul Wolfowitz and I. Lewis Libby ) working under then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney.

" Strongly influenced by his father, Paul Wolfowitz became " a soft-spoken former aspiring-mathematician-turned-policymaker ... world views ... were forged by family history and in the halls of academia rather than in the jungles of Vietnam or the corridors of Congress ... father ... escaped Poland after World War I.

In August 1963, he and his mother participated in the civil-rights march on Washington organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. Wolfowitz was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.

In the summer of 1969, Wohlstetter arranged for his students Wolfowitz, Wilson, and Richard Perle to join the Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy which was set up by Cold War architects Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson.

Allen initially rejected Wolfowitz's appointment but following discussions, instigated by former colleague John Lehman, Allen offered Wolfowitz the position of Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State.

During the 2000 U. S. Presidential election campaign, Wolfowitz served as a foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush as part of the group led by Condoleezza Rice calling itself The Vulcans.

As reported by the BBC, Wolfowitz told the crowd that US President George W. Bush " wants you to know that he stands in solidarity with you ".

Sharon Samber and Matthew E. Berger reported for Jewish Telegraphic Agency ( JTA ) that Wolfowitz continued by saying that " Innocent Palestinians are suffering and dying as well.

" According to an unnamed Pentagon source quoted by Hersh, the OSP " was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true — that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States.

Kampfner outlined Wolfowitz ’ s strategy for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which " envisaged the use of air support and the occupation of southern Iraq with ground troops, to install a new government run by Ahmed Chalabi ’ s Iraqi National Congress.

On March 27, 2003, Wolfowitz told the House Appropriations Committee that oil revenue earned by Iraq alone would pay for Iraq's reconstruction after the Iraq war ; he testified his " rough recollection " was: " The oil revenues of that country could bring between $ 50 and $ 100 billion over the course of the next two or three years.

' added that earlier estimates and statements by Mr. Wolfowitz and others ' oozed with uncertainty.

In March 2005, Wolfowitz was nominated to be president of the World Bank by U. S. President George W. Bush.

When this meeting was interrupted by the July 7, 2005 London bombings, Wolfowitz was present with other world leaders at the press conference given by British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

In contrast, Fox News concluded that the new documents might offer Wolfowitz a " new lifeline " in the scandal, because the Bank's ethics committee had launched a review of the Riza compensation case in early 2006 and concluded that it did not warrant any further attention by the committee.

He has been aided by other prominent neoconservatives, including Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith.

According to the book The Chastening, by Paul Blustein, during this crisis, Summers, along with Paul Wolfowitz, pushed for regime change in Indonesia.

Notable people who studied under Strauss, or attended his lecture courses at the University of Chicago, include Hadley Arkes, Seth Benardete, Allan Bloom, Werner Dannhauser, Murray Dry, William Galston, Victor Gourevitch, Harry V. Jaffa, Roger Masters, Thomas Pangle, Stanley Rosen, Abram Shulsky ( Director of the Office of Special Plans ), Susan Sontag, and Paul Wolfowitz ( who attended two lecture courses by Strauss on Plato and Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws at the University of Chicago ).

An article in Business Day on Oct. 9 about journalists who attended a secret meeting in November 2001 called by Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense, referred incorrectly to the participation of Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International and a Newsweek columnist.