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Senators Accuse U.N. Leader of Blocking Their Fraud Inquiry (OOJ?)
EFL  Leaders of a United States Senate subcommittee investigating allegations of fraud in the oil-for-food program in Iraq have accused Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, of obstructing their inquiry. Sounds suspeciously like Obstruction of Justice. Wonder if Kofi read about Martha Stewart and Frank Quattrone. Those were NYC cases. Turn this baby over to Spitzer for quick results. The senators also complained that Mr. Annan was blocking access to 55 internal audit reports of the program and other relevant documents and refusing to permit United Nations officials to be interviewed by the subcommittee's investigators. The senators said it had taken four months for Mr. Annan to reply to the subcommittee's requests, and when he finally did, he refused to cooperate with the Senate inquiry. "We are concerned that the U.N.'s nondisclosure policy is being used as both a sword and a shield," the senators wrote, "sharing such 'internal records' when it favors the U.N., but then declining to do so when such disclosure could have negative implications." The blunt letter is signed by the subcommittee's chairman, Senator Norm Coleman, Republican of Minnesota, and Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan. I believe this is the first time in Senate history Levin has done anything intelligent Edward Mortimer, director of communications in the secretary general's office, said United Nations officials would "carefully look into what is clearly a very awkward and troubling letter." Why is the letter awkward? If it was troubling you must have had not difficulty understanding it. Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-11 |
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