Mr. Sevan, I Presume
At the United Nations, as a year of many scandals draws to a close, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been trying to stuff some big unanswered questions down the memory hole--with mixed results. N...
Henry Hyde
Don’t Shred on Me
Paul Volcker's findings on Oil for Food have been widely received as the final word on the United Nations relief program for Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Far from it--as Mr. Volcker himself h...
Op-eds
Procurement Scandal: New Conflict of Interest in Annan’s Inner Circle?
Co-authored by: George Russell. United Nations investigators scrambling to discover the extent of a bribery scandal spreading out from the organization’s procurement depar...
Op-eds
The Buck Still Hasn’t Stopped
From the October 3, 2005 issue: The Volcker report on Oil-for-Food is sadly incomplete.
Op-eds
Oil for Enron
Since the Oil for Food program came to an end in 2003, it has been described--accurately enough--as oil for palaces, oil for terror and oil for fraud. Now it turns out the U.N. relief program in...
Op-eds
Galloway Deplores U.S. Probe of U.N.
WASHINGTON - A left-wing member of the British Parliament, George Galloway, named by Senate investigators as having been granted lucrative rights by Saddam Hussein to buy oil under the U.N. oil-f...
Op-eds
Congressional Team and Volcker Committee Wrangle Over Secret Evidence About Annan
The hottest question right now in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal is who has rights to boxfuls of secret evidence concerning the secretary-general of the world body, Kofi Annan. Congressional inves...
Op-eds
Annan’s Son Took Payments Through 2004
One of the next big chapters in the United Nations oil-for-food scandal will involve the family of the secretary-general, Kofi Annan, whose son turns out to have been receiving payments as recent...
Op-eds
Cover Up Culture: When Will the Real Oil-for-Food investigations Begin?
You have to admire the resilience of the United Nations. In theory, the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food relief program for Iraq, which ran from 1996-2003, is now the subject of at least five investigati...
Op-eds
U.N.Reliable – U.N. Investigations Focus on Process, not Substance
"Cover-up" may sound farfetched, given the number of hearings and investigations now zeroing in on the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal. The Iraq Governing Council began its own inquiry back i...