Strong Implications
What the Park arrest portends.
Oil-for-Food Programme
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...
Op-eds
The Blow-Up
Annan insults and distracts.
Op-eds
Claudia Rosett Receives the Center for Security Policy’s “Mightier Pen” Award
Washington, D.C. (Dec. 14, 2005) – The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies congratulates Claudia Rosett for receiving the Center for Security Policy's “Mig...
Press Releases
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
New U.N. Scheme: Alliance of Civilizations
Co-authored by: George Russell NEW YORK — After the epic disaster of Oil for Food, one might imagine the United Nations would tread carefully before launching any ne...
Op-eds
Business as Usual
Few outside U.N. circles have heard of IHC Services, a private company that for years was one of hundreds of firms selling goods and services to the U.N. As a rule, the U.N. keeps secret most det...
Op-eds
U.N. Procurement Scandal: Ties to Saddam and Al Qaeda
Co-authored by: George Russell. The scandal engulfing the United Nations Procurement Department (search) now appears to be bottomless. It also shows signs of growing more sinist...
Op-eds
Faking It
Seeing things in the Zawahiri-Zarqawi letter that aren't there.
Op-eds
Frenchmen Fried?
France discovers the Oil-for-Food scandal.
Op-eds
U.N. Procurement Scandal: Secret Information Was Leaked to a Bidder
Co-authored by: George Russell. On the morning of Nov. 6, 2003, an e-mail sped between two business executives at two private firms, bearing an important tip-off about an impend...
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
They’ve Been Partying Long Enough
A scandal-plagued United Nations turns 60.
Op-eds
Talking Their Way Out of the Scandal
United Nations talking points avoid taking responsibility.
Op-eds
Exposé, At Last?
Volcker potential.
Op-eds
The U.N.’s Spreading Bribery Scandal: Russian Ties and Global Reach
Co-authored by: George Russell. NEW YORK — How widespread is the corruption at the United Nations? The multibillion-dollar Iraq Oil-for-Food (search) scandal was jus...
Op-eds
The U.N.-Touchables
If you thumb through the U.N. portion of this pile, however, the real agenda seems to be that once the member states have failed to reach meaningful agreement, Secretary-General Kofi Annan will w...
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
Scratching the Surface
"A single dollar lost to corruption is a dollar too much if you're handling international public monies": With this pious utterance did United Nations chief of staff, Mark Malloch Brown, gre...