It's a Small World After All 04-20-07 mpg Wolfowitz Backed Friend for Iraq Contract in ’03 Some quotes...."WASHINGTON, April 19 — Paul D. Wolfowitz, while serving as deputy secretary of defense, personally recommended that his companion, Shaha Ali Riza, be awarded a contract for travel to Iraq in 2003 to advise on setting up a new government, says a previously undisclosed inquiry by the Pentagon’s inspector general." "The inquiry, as described by a senior Pentagon official, concluded that there was no wrongdoing in Mr. Wolfowitz’s role in the hiring of Ms. Riza by the Science Applications International Corporation...." That's right SAIC hired her....also known as spook central, the US's plumbers,  or the retirement home of the CIA.  Heck just look at it's name....it's CIA'S spelled backwards.  See also.....SAIC Corp Watch search list .  By the way guess who was a SAIC board member....Robert Gates of course. Oh but it gets better.... And...."Earlier this week, a spokeswoman for SAIC said the company was told to contract with Ms. Riza by an official in the office of the under secretary of defense for policy, then headed by Douglas J. Feith." Yep, that's THE Douglas J Feith, the master of "yellow cake" (Down Karl, down boy),  the man who claimed there was a connection between Saddam and al-Qaida and who was also a contributor to the now infamous document called "a clean break", a polemic which openly advocated war as a policy for the Middle East. After reading this, a person might be forgiven if they began singing  "it's a small world after all". - mpg PS: Congratulations to the NYT for printing an article which actually connected some "dots".