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| Evidence of a Coverup, Investigative Hindering at the UN |
| 2004-05-05 |
| Brutally EFL Remember, folks: this is the same organization that Kerry and many, many others, including Bush wish to take on a bigger role in Iraq, and whom Kerry wants to turn over the security of our troops and intelligence operations. Imagine, Kofi’s cousin getting $5 million in his banks account in exchange for security details on a US installation. Can we start moving the UN somewhere else, please? I hear Paris in nice this time of year and I am equally certain Islamic terrorists in Eurostan would love to have a crack at Kofi and the gang. In the letter to Saybolt, dated 12 days later, the message had become tougher and yet more detailed, telling the company that any requests for information not already public should be relayed to the U.N., including "the reason why it is being sought." The letter to Saybolt also made specific mention that if U.N. internal audit reports are asked for, "we would not agree to their release." These would be the same internal audits that the U.N. Secretariat--which administered the Oil for Food program--did not share with the Security Council and has refused to provide to Congress. In other words, in the interval between March 19, when Mr. Annan finally conceded in the face of overwhelming evidence that the program might after all need investigating by independent experts, and April 21, when former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker was appointed to head to the investigation, Mr. Annan’s office explicitly reminded these two crucial contractors, which worked for the Secretariat’s Oil for Food program checking the imports and exports involved in more than $100 billion worth of Saddam’s oil sales and relief imports, to keep quiet. Your leftist enablers/allies in the USA like to do the same thing when it appears they are about to get caught, Kofi. You both deserve one another Mr. Annan’s reaction when confronted with the Saybolt letter was to explain that "we are protecting all the material for the investigation that’s been handed over to the Volcker group," as well as to say he himself had no knowledge of the letter: "This is news to me." Mr. Annan’s office has since defended such letter-writing on grounds that "this is standard procedure" and "an institutional response." According to Mr. Annan’s spokesman, Fred Eckhard, "To protect our name and our documentation, we put in every contract with a supplier that documentation relating to UN business can only be released to the United Nations, unless otherwise authorized." To describe Kofiesque logic: we didn’t do it and given the chance we’d do it again. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 I am wondering about that Cayman Islands bank account for "Annan & Son, Consulting" |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-05 11:26:22 AM |
| #2 Screw that -- send the Cincinnati police. They're being blamed for shooting a that had a through-and-through head wound from a gun held against the skin, while the guy was sitting in a car alone with the doors closed and the windows up. Read the story. (Annoying quote from the chief of police, but, hey, he's a politician.) |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-05-05 11:16:36 AM |
| #1 Send in the NYPD to toss the joint. Be messy about it, and maybe accidentally shoot a couple of diplomats, just to let 'em know we're not happy. |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-05-05 11:02:43 AM |