Check out who's representing Wolfowitz's girlfriend...

[sabra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/washington/17wolfowitz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Unusual Trip to Iraq in ’03 for Wolfowitz Companion

WASHINGTON, April 16 — The Defense Department directed a private contractor in 2003 to hire Shaha Ali Riza, a World Bank employee and the companion of Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense, to spend a month studying issues related to setting up a new government in Iraq, the contractor said Monday.

The contractor, Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC, said that it had been directed to hire Ms. Riza by the office of the under secretary for policy. The head of that office at the time was Douglas J. Feith, who reported to Mr. Wolfowitz.

After her trip to Iraq, Ms. Riza briefed members of the executive board of the World Bank on efforts to rebuild after the American invasion and specifically on the status of Iraqi women, according to Ms. Riza’s supervisor at the time.

Victoria Toensing, a lawyer representing Ms. Riza, said this evening that Ms. Riza went to Iraq as a volunteer and took a leave of absence from the World Bank, paying for her own benefits while she was on leave.

[Ian David]

1. Victoria Toensing

Victoria Toensing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Victoria Toensing is a lawyer and partner with her husband, Joseph diGenova, in the Washington law firm, diGenova and Toensing. Her practice specializes in white-collar criminal defense, regulatory inquiries, and legislative advocacy. She claims "particular expertise in high-profile, media-driven matters requiring special legal and press skills." She has appeared as a legal commentator on several networks such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC

Toensing graduated from Indiana University (where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority) in 1962 with an education degree; she taught high-school English until she entered law school. She received a J.D. from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 1975, embarking on a career in the U. S. Attorney's office. In 1981, she became Chief Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where she helped draft the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.

In 1984, she joined the Reagan administration as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General, where she headed the "Terrorism Unit," the first working group in the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute terrorism-related crimes. As part of her work in the DoJ, she managed the government's legal efforts during the terrorist hijacking of TWA Flight 847, the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, and the takeover of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. She also supervised S&L fraud cases, prosecuted nuclear industry regulation cases, securities fraud, and fraud and bribery in the banking industry. In 1988, she entered private practice.

Victoria and her husband Joseph have represented Republican Representative Dan Burton.

Involvement in Monica Lewinsky Scandal

Toensing and her husband made regular appearances on television claiming that they were the target of investigations by Clinton Administration.<1>

Involvement in Valerie Plame Scandal

Being one of the key people to help draft the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, Toensing has been retained by a number of media organizations to give commentary on the Plame Affair. In March 2005 Toensing authored an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Matt Cooper and Judith Miller, two journalists who were subpoenaed in the Valerie Plame investigation for refusing to reveal information obtained from confidential sources.

In the brief, she argued that "there exists ample evidence in the public record to cast serious doubt as to whether a crime has even been committed under the Intelligence Protection Act in the investigation underlying the attempts to secure testimony from Miller and Cooper." She also contended that Ms. Plame didn't have a cover to blow, citing a July 23, 2004 article in the Washington Times which argued that Valerie Plame's status as an undercover CIA agent may have been known to Russian and Cuban intelligence operations prior to the article (by Robert Novak) that revealed her status as a CIA employee.

Plame did have formal covert status in the CIA as she stated under oath.<2> and was confirmed by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. However, regardless of her formal status, the statute requires that the government take "affirmative" action to protect the agent's identity and that the government itself not have revealed her identity. Waxman, the committee's chairman, introduced into evidence a memo from the CIA Director, General Michael V. Hayden, affirming her covert status. This latter piece of evidence rendered the rebuttal testimony by the Republicans' witness, Victoria Toensing, irrelevant.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Toensing

[panader0]

2. It's a regular can of worms with those people

They all seems to be entwined somehow.

[tanyev]

9. The aspens turn in clusters because their roots connect them.

[catmandu57]

3. She's toast then

After watching this witch's performance at the Plame hearing, I wouldn't think she would be employed at all. The rats certainly hang together don't they?

[CatWoman]

4. Will Vicky try to tell us that Riza was "covert"?

that is, according to Vicky's "description"?

[Hamlette]

10. No, not covert. She was a volunteer and since Vicky wrote the definition of volunteer

she must be right.

Vicky also wrote the law about volunteers in Iraq and that law says a volunteer is someone who is paid to go to Iraq.


Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean?

[CatWoman]

23. LOL

Good one, Hamlette :)

:hi:

[GliderGuider]

5. Well now, isn't that cozy?

It's so nice to have friends, you can always count on them to stick up for you...

[Snotcicles]

6. Did anybody leak her name to the press like they did Plame?

Oops, wrong side of the aisle.

[xultar]

7. WTF is there to defend. Munchkin and the tramp have nothing to defend.

They are both whores.

[Annces]

8. Toesing to the rescue

She has no shame.

[Phredicles]

11. Anyone representing Wolfowitz's wife?

I'm still wondering why the press is so reticent about his having both a wife and a girlfriend.

[dancingme]

14. Howard K Stern?

maybe :evilgrin:

[rasputin1952]

34. Doesn't count when your an R...only works against D's...

These people have no shame whatsoever. They cannot comprehend hypocrisy, it is beyond them...:grr:

[aquart]

12. Iraq? I thought she went to the State Department

with a tax-free salary and a job manning a non-existent foundation.

[bobthedrummer]

17. All of the above and a bag of chips, aquart-it leads to other things

the SAIC aspect was noted last week, btw-this crosspost is from a valuable thread started by Fridays Child looking at Karl's shop et al.

"Elizabeth CHENEY was also a 'colleague' of Wolfowitz's partner Shaha Ali Riza"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x548152#651509

[peacetalksforall]

13. How many contradictory statements in one short article can there

be? Why did Toensing go out of her way to say she paid her own benefits? By beneifits she must mean insurance, plus? If she was traveling for the World Bank, why would she pay her own benefits? If Toensing is obfuscating and really means her expenses, why would she have to do that if she traveled for the World Bank? If traveling for the U.S. who paid? This stinks. It's necessary to find out where Wolfowitz was during this period to figure it out. Looks like the arrogance and presumption is showing again. A presumption that they would never get caught.

And he's not divorced, yet?

[Hamlette]

15. my guess is the ex is loving this story

the bastard gets exposed INTERNATIONALLY for the ass he was/is.

When did he divorce?

But, as Colbert pointed out last night, he wasn't having sex with the girlfriend because they were not married so it was impossible for them to be having sex.

[peacetalksforall]

16. One bio says he has been separated since 199 x? date. Don't

remember the year.

[madokie]

18. victoria should to be needing the services of a lawyer herself

[Sapere aude]

19. Those rats really stick together don't they. The make money for each other.

I'll be very happy when we get a Dem Pres and a Dem Congress so we can cut off their gravy train. How much of the treasury has gone to these folks from Cheney on down I wonder.

[formercia]

22. Out of one pocket and into another..

http://www.publicintegrity.org/bop2004/report.aspx?aid=273

Registered Lobbyists Appointed to Bush's Transition Teams and Their Activity
--snip--

Justice Joseph E Digenova Digenova & Toensing 520,000
Justice Victoria Toensing Digenova & Toensing 260,000

--snip--

[formercia]

20. Remember Passportgate?

http://consortiumnews.com/2005/112405.html


To investigate Passport-gate, Sentelle recruited a fellow Reagan appointee, former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, to act as the independent counsel. DiGenova was named in a sealed order on Dec. 14, 1992.
Though diGenova’s appointment was made under court seal, an order that barred disclosure of the investigation, diGenova promptly alerted the Bush White House. According to a White House phone log, diGenova called presidential counsel Boyden Gray at 2:40 p.m. on Dec. 16. DiGenova left an “urgent” message which read: “Not at liberty to give subject b /c of court order.”
When I asked diGenova about the unusual message, he said he called to inform Gray that a subpoena for White House records would be forthcoming.
DiGenova also recalled that he had contacted Gray only after word of the appointment had appeared in the Washington Post. I informed diGenova, however, that the Post story didn’t break until the evening of Dec. 17, more than a day after the phone call.

[peacetalksforall]

25. I hope someone will be able to write an xx volume expose of

the way these people have worked together along with their crimes. But, as of today, there they are - invited onto corporation tv to sound so wise and officious with an attitude that says it all - we are lawyers and we know it all and we are doing this for you.

[trof]

21. I love it when they 'lawyer up'. n/t

[Me.]

24. So Let's See, She Sleeps With Wolfowitz & Hires Toensing As Her Lawyer

Her judgment is beyond bad and she shouldn't be let anywhere near a job that has anything to do with governance.

As to the divorce question, I don't believe there has been one though NBC last night described him as such. He and his wife separated in 2001. Wonder if the scum pays child support for his 3 kids?

[Jacobin]

26. So, Wolfowitz's GF had to lawyer up?

:rofl:

:rofl:

These people slay me, they really really do.

And this doofus still thinks he should head the world bank?

:rofl:

[Morgana LaFey]

27. We shoulda been able to guess, huh?? nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

28. Ewww... sticky vickie. Yuck -- I would be OK never having to

look at that ugly mug again. :puke:

[geardaddy]

29. I swear to God that there's more political incest

in this group than the crowned heads of Europe.

Are any of these cronies suffering from hemophilia?

[Stinky The Clown]

30. Oh good gawd ...... Witch Victoria

[grasswire]

31. EXCELLENT catch --- thanks

My skin is crawling at the thought of Toensing's voice.

[Disturbed]

33. Why did she have to employ an Attorney?

Did she do something wrong?

[MoonRiver]

32. That's one mean and angry looking loser.

Wolfowitz must be desperate. Oh, yeah.

[rasputin1952]

35. Wolfie isn't some great looker either...he'd scare buzzards off

a corpse...:scared:

[MoonRiver]

36. Lol, agreed!

Guess they're a match made in hell. Maybe they can be given a jail cell together.

[rasputin1952]

37. W/fireproof bags for their little noggins...

:7

[bobthedrummer]

38. kick