The real story behind the Wolfowitz resignation

This month's National Review reports that Paul Wolfowitz's resignation as president of the World Bank- widely reported by the MSM as due to a cushy job he arranged for his girlfriend- had nothing to do with that at all. In fact, Wolfowitz insisted on- and received- an ethical clean bill of health from the Bank's directors as a condition of resigning; the hiring was completely appropriate.

Wolfowitz, NR reports, was forced out for two reasons: his insistence on accountability in the use of Bank funds by corrupt Third World governments, and his role in the events leading up to the War in Iraq.

The whole affair seems to be an even bigger spin job than Scooter Libby being sent to jail for having a failure of memory about revealing a matter that was never a secret to begin with.