Game Theory at the World Bank
I wondered what Robert Bennett, Mr. Wolfowitz’s lawyer, would have said if he were allowed to speak at the two-hour meeting of the World Bank’s board. Below, he tries to get the message across via the Washington Post: call off your smear campaign and its false charges, or we will start making some true charges of our own, and you’ll regret it (more politely, but I am sure just as definitely). He who lives in a glass bank shouldn’t throw stones.
Bennett indicated that he is prepared to launch a major counteroffensive if the “rush to judgment” against Wolfowitz is not slowed down. “Let’s open up all the deals for people at the bank, deals that members of the board have for their staff . . . if that’s where they want to go,” he said in an interview.
The board barred Bennett and Riza’s attorney Victoria Toensing from speaking during yesterday’s sessions. “One of the points I would make, if they let me talk, which they won’t,” Bennett said before the session, “is they’ve simply got to de-escalate this thing.”