Foundation for the Future Enrichment of Neocon Girlfriends

The US has apparently invested $35 million into the Foundation for the Future, but nobody at the Department of State seems to know what it does, where it’s office is located, or how to contact it by telephone. Its website doesn’t even list Shaha Riza as either an employee or consultant, and certainly not as a member of the Board of Directors, although she’s the only person that works in the rented office of a Think Tank. Yet because of Paul Wolfowitz, she’s earning $220K per year, paid by the World Bank, doing whatever it is she does for the Foundation for the Future under the auspices of the Department of State.

I need a job like that… excellent pay, no supervision, only one meeting a year, free office space… oh, wait… no, I can’t sleep with Wolfowitz even for that much money. I do have -some- scruples, you know.

Is he picking his nose here?

Here is the interesting exchange highlighting that no one seems to know how to make a call to the Foundation for the Future — (does Shaha Riza have an office or phone extension wherever this office may be?):

QUESTION: But is Ms. Shaha a consultant or a fulltime employee of the board? What is her status?

MR. CASEY: My understanding is she is an individual seconded by the World Bank as an advisor to the board of directors of the Foundation for the Future.

QUESTION: So her official title is advisor or consultant?

MR. CASEY: My best understanding is advisor to the board, yeah.

QUESTION: So what does she do as the advisor? I mean, does she help advise on grants, or do you know what her job is?

MR. CASEY: I do not have a job description for her, no. Again, I think that’s a question you could ask some of the board members.

One question beyond the Wolfowitz-Riza Scandal is how many “consultants” does the Department of State (or other Departments like DoD, DoE, and others) have along these lines?

Clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com