[quote]Wolf at the Door

By Al Kamen
Friday, January 7, 2005; Page A17

There was buzz early in the week that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz had seen President Bush and informed him that Wolfowitz would be leaving and that Rummy wanted a `big-time` corporate type to be the new deputy.

We quickly rounded up the usual suspects to see if this was true, but they only said things like: "There may be something there," or, "You'll just have to be patient," or, when asked who might know, suggested we call Newt Gingrich.

Pentagon spokesman Lawrence T. Di Rita waxed thusly: "As far as I know, he has no plans to leave his job. But I also know that everybody -- the president, the vice president, Secretary Rumsfeld, a whole lot of other people in this administration -- think he's an enormous talent. So I wouldn't be surprised, particularly at this point in time where there's movement in the administration, if people are scratching their heads and thinking if there's someplace else his talents could be applied." (No, not poll watcher in downtown Fallujah. There is an opening at the United Nations, however.) If Wolfowitz were, in fact, leaving the Pentagon, we were advised that it probably would not be for a while.

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