After the Enronesque rip-off of UNSCAM, any other CEO would be packing his bags. Especially if his lieutenants and son were involved. So why isn't Kofi Annan packing his bags, and what makes the U.N. different? Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN, Chair of U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee member) wants to know. His indictment of the supposed "internal investigation" by Paul Volcker is devastating.
To add to the pressure, the Oil for Food Accountability Act has been introduced in the House and Senate. It proposes witholding U.S. dues to the U.N. until the President certifies that the U.N. in really cooperating in the UNSCAM investigvation. The media attention this would aim at the U.N. would make the law's passage a good thing all by itself.
Meanwhile, Clinton pardon-recipient Marc Rich may be up to his old tricks - he's being investigated in connection with UNSCAM. This time, maybe they can keep him in jail.
There are considerable discussions taking place on this and related issues at TCP, LGF, Jihad Watch, Roger L. Simon, and the Belmont Club.
See my post on Roger's site that has links to some of these discussions:
The UN Oil for Food scandal is just the tip of many connected icebergs
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This is all a big bunch of BS. The UN and the IAEA can go stick their heads where the sun doesn't sign and for that matter the French government too!!
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Last I heard, the internal investigation is headed by Volker but run by a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who specialized in government corruption cases in his district. He's been on the job for only a couple of months, so I can't see how Coleman's 'indictment' of the internal investigation can be devestating.
Dingo,
Read the article. The complete lack of power of the investigators, as well as the lack of cooperation from the UN, make Coleman's distrust well earned. When the entity being investigated, with a CEO strongly connected to the problem, hires the investigators, has no penalties for noncompliance or misleading the investigators, then has a system where it receives the report and then decides what to release.... no, that isn't even remotely credible by any standard and noting these flaws is indeed devastating.
Would you have accepted that response from Enron?