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.

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.

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

Former Deputy U. S. Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz called it " a very successful tactical operation " and said " such strikes are useful not only in killing terrorists but in forcing al-Qaeda to change its tactics ".

In 1977, during the Carter administration, Wolfowitz moved to the Pentagon.

'" Other areas where Wolfowitz disagreed with the administration was in his opposition to attempts to open up dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and to the sale of Airborne Warning and Control System ( AWACS ) aircraft to Saudi Arabia.

" In both instances ," according to Mann, " Wolfowitz demonstrated himself to be one of the strongest supporters of Israel in the Reagan administration.

From 1989 to 1993, Wolfowitz served in the administration of George H. W.

" 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.

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.

From 2001 to 2005, during the George W. Bush administration, Wolfowitz served as U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defense reporting to U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

The September 11 attacks in 2001 was a turning point in administration policy, as Wolfowitz later explained: " 9 / 11 really was a wake up call and that if we take proper advantage of this opportunity to prevent the future terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction that it will have been an extremely valuable wake up call ," adding: " if we say our only problem was to respond to 9 / 11, and we wait until somebody hits us with nuclear weapons before we take that kind of threat seriously, we will have made a very big mistake.

Wolfowitz was the sole representative of the Bush administration to attend, speaking alongside Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

" Nevertheless " as the administration geared up for conflict with Saddam, Chalabi was welcomed in the inner sanctum of the Pentagon " under the auspices of the OSP, and " Wolfowitz did not see fit to challenge any of Chalabi ’ s information.

" 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.

In addition to Richard Perle, neoconservatives Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Charles Horner, and Douglas Feith were former Democratic aides to Jackson who, disillusioned with the Carter administration, supported Ronald Reagan and joined his administration in 1981, later becoming prominent foreign policy makers in the 21st-century Bush administration.

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.

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.

During President Jimmy Carter's administration, Ross worked under Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz in the Pentagon.

At least five members of George W. Bush's administration were Quill and Dagger members: Stephen Friedman, Stephen Krasner, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, and Carol Kuntz.

Among the signatories to Project for the New American Century's original statement of Principals is George H. W. Bush ’ s Vice President Dan Quayle, George W. Bush's defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, his Vice President Dick Cheney, and his brother Jeb Bush.

Instead, Wolfowitz advocated a unilateralist policy, claiming that the U. S. did not need China ’ s assistance but that the Chinese needed the U. S. to protect them against the far-more-likely prospect of a Soviet invasion of the Chinese mainland.

Wolfowitz soon came into conflict with Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who had been Kissinger ’ s assistant at the time of the visits to China.

According to Peter J. Boyer, Wolfowitz ’ s appointment to Indonesia was not an immediately obvious match.

But Wolfowitz ’ s tenure as Ambassador was a notable success, largely owing to the fact that, in essence, he went native.

During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Wolfowitz ’ s team co-ordinated and reviewed military strategy, raising $ 50 billion in allied financial support for the operation.

After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Wolfowitz and his then-assistant Scooter Libby wrote the Wolfowitz Doctrine to " set the nation ’ s direction for the next century.

Wolfowitz stated, " We ’ re clearly moving into a different phase, where our priority in Afghanistan is increasingly going to be stability and reconstruction.

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.

According to the London Sunday Times on March 20, 2005, despite their cultural differences, " Riza, an Arab feminist who confounds portrayals of Wolfowitz as a leader of a ' Zionist conspiracy ' of Jewish neoconservatives in Washington ... who works as the bank ’ s senior gender co-ordinator for the Middle East and north Africa ... not only shares Wolfowitz ’ s passion for spreading democracy in the Arab world, but is said to have reinforced his determination to remove Saddam Hussein ’ s oppressive regime.

The relationship created further controversy over Wolfowitz ’ s nomination to head the World Bank, because the bank's ethics rules preclude sexual relationships between a manager and a staff member serving under that manager, even if one reports to the other only indirectly through a chain of supervision.

The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz after U. S. Supreme Court rulings in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Rasul v. Bush s: Combatant Status Review Tribunal ( fact sheet of October 17, 2006 ) and were coordinated through the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants.

Paul Wolfowitz, the military analyst for the United States Department of Defense under Ronald Reagan, had formulated a new foreign policy with regard to Iraq and other " potential aggressor states ", dismissing " containment " in favor of " preemption ", with the goal of striking first to eliminate threats.

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.

The Chinese were now pushing for the U. S. to end arms sales to Taiwan, and Wolfowitz used the Chinese incentive as an opportunity to undermine Kissinger's foreign policy toward China.

On March 30, 1982, The New York Times predicted that " Paul D. Wolfowitz, the director of policy planning ... will be replaced ," because " Mr. Haig found Mr. Wolfowitz too theoretical.

" Dewi Fortuna Anwar, a foreign policy adviser to B J Habibie, Suharto's successor as head of state ( 1998 – 1999 ), stated " that Wolfowitz was a competent and popular envoy.

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.

Perle, with fellow neoconservative Paul Wolfowitz, played a supporting role in the ballistic missile defense project in the 1980s known as “ Star Wars ” Perle was influential in creating several organizations and think-tanks in order to pressure public opinion and sway policy makers on ballistic missile defense.

From 1981 to 1982 Wolfowitz was appointed head of the policy planning staff in the State Department.

With the right connections and support of his close allies Wolfowitz and Perle, Feith was able to attain the position of undersecretary for policy in the Pentagon in 2001 of which he resigned in 2005.

PNAC brought together prominent members of the ( George W ) Bush Administration ( Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz ) in the late 1990s to articulate their neoconservative foreign policy, including sending a letter to President Bill Clinton urging him to invade Iraq.

During his brief stint at the defense policy planning staff, Cohen had worked under Wolfowitz but this was the first time they were in extended contact.

The story reported that the FBI had uncovered a spy working as a policy analyst under Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.

Barlow brought a legal action for wrongful dismissal that received considerable attention, including from the United States Congress, where he was defended by Paul Wolfowitz, who said " there have been times on that issue when I specifically sensed that people thought we could somehow construct a policy on a house of cards that the Congress wouldn't know what the Pakistanis were doing " and that the retaliation Barlow had faced was " wrong ".

Wolfowitz had also served as foreign policy advisor to Bob Dole during the 1996 U. S. presidential election.