You know how they say that some stories just write themselves? Well, sometimes other people write the stories about those stories, and then they tell you those stories, and together, they write another one.
Cliff Schecter told me this one:
Where Lies, Neo-Cons, Scandals and Crime Intersect...
You always find Vickie**
It's hard to tell if she only represents her "friends," or purposely goes looking for the stinkiest, most mired-in-Neo-Conservative-Mud cases she can find.
What's the case?
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.
And who's Vickie?
Victoria Toensing, a lawyer representing Riza, said this evening that 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.
The next part of the story was written by DHinMI, who reminded me that Wolfowitz just did what the "administration" accused Valerie Plame of doing -- that is, setting up a "boondoggle" for the significant other.
And we know how Vickie Toensing hates her some boondoggles!
THIS GRAND JURY CHARGES JOSEPH C. WILSON IV with misleading the public about how he was sent to Niger, about the thrust of his March 2003 oral report of that trip, and about his wife's CIA status, perhaps for the purpose of getting book and movie contracts.
[...]
· Wilson has claimed repeatedly -- including on MSNBC's "Countdown" on July 22, 2005 and at the National Press Club on Oct. 31, 2005 -- that he was sent to Niger because of his "specific skill set" and not because of his wife. But Senate intelligence committee documents indicate that Plame suggested his name for the trip, as did a State Department report and a CIA official who briefed the vice president's office.
She hates 'em, unless she's gettin' paid to defend 'em, that is. Cha-ching!