Wolfowitz is being critiqued for having affairs, while married, twice: formerly with someone who was his subordinate, and now (if confirmed to the World Bank) to someone who will be his employee.
If Wolfowitz' personal consensual relationships are his undoing, it won't be the first time. Recall the Boeing CEO recently fired for having relations with his employee; Clinton impeached for relations with an employee. Where are the Clinton haters now who said that his personal conduct necessarily undermined his capacity for being a trustworthy public official? If I had more time, I'd pull up the WSJ editorial pages of the mid 1990s for some juicy quotes.
This from the Daily Mail (a London tabloid, of uncertain trustworthiness):
According to one Republican Administration insider, Clare was so upset by rumours about the affair that she wrote to then President Elect Bush, saying if the story were true it could pose a national security risk.
It's interesting that this story appears in the British press. Are stories about Wolfowitz's personal affairs outside the bounds of American media inquiry? Perhaps they should be, but they surely didn't have qualms about investigating private affairs from 1992 to 1999.
[revised on March 29th]