And you thought it couldn't get any funnier, right?

The ethics committee told Wolfowitz he could not directly supervise Riza, who also worked at the bank, after he arrived in 2005. He said, however, that the panel declined to oversee her job transfer and compensation, instead ordering him to handle those tasks.

“Its members did not want to deal with a very angry Ms. Riza, whose career was being damaged as a result of their decision,” Wolfowitz said in his response to the investigating committee's report. “It would only be human nature for them to want to steer clear of her.

”Wolfowitz added that the chairman of the ethics panel thought that “due to my personal relationship with Ms. Riza, I was in the best position to persuade her to take out-placement and thereby achieve the 'pragmatic solution' the committee desired.”

So Wolfie threw his own body on the, you know, grenade....

Link: Bank Rebukes Wolfowitz On Ethics - washingtonpost.com