Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Green Zone Girl
Barbara Bodine, former US Ambassador, University of California Regent, and lecturer at Princeton, is perhaps best known as the hatchet woman who as ambassador to Yemen denied a visa to FBI Commander John P. O'Neill while he was hot on the trail of Al Qaeda suspects involved in plotting 9/11. Bodine, who then answered to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, went on to assist with money laundering in Baghdad's Green Zone as post-invasion contractors lined up at the Pentagon PX. Indeed, Santa Barbara Barbara has had an illustrious Foreign Service career.
