Today the second Volcker report was released and Roger Simon has read it so you don't have to:
UPDATE: I have been reading the report. So far I can say this much -- anyone who thinks Kofi Annan is the man to reform the United Nations has the intelligence of a gnat or the morals of Saddam Hussein.If you're unfamiliar with the term "Chef de Cabinet", it basically means he was Kofi Annan's chief of staff. I don't how good he was at that, but good ole Iqbal sure knew how to cover his nether region! And then there's the goods on Kofi's son Kojo's little "business venture" with the Oil-for-Food program including this revelation:
MORE: Reading the report, you come to the conclusion that in a normal (non-UN) situation many of the people involved would quite simply go to jail, but here there is no apparent jurisdiction. An example is the former UN Chef de Cabinet S. Iqbal Riza who directed his assistant to shred many documents concerning Oil-for-Food. His assistant wondered if she should be doing this with so many documents but Mr. Riza told her to go ahead and scrawled his gratitude on the memorandum: "Fine. Thanks. (A heavy task!)" Besides being hugely corrupt, Mr. Riza is evidently something of a nitwit for leaving a paper trail. Riza destroyed three years' worth of documents!
The report indicates that Kojo Annan is no longer cooperating with the committee. According to my sources... and you know who they are if you have been following the posts below... this has been true since November.Gosh! Why would that be?
As for the old man:
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, asked Tuesday if he would resign after a critical report concerning the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq, replied, "Hell, no."I guess ole Kofi's not paying attention. Either that or he's on the "up" part of his mood cycle.
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"After so many distressing and untrue allegations have been made against me, this exoneration by the independent inquiry obviously comes as a great relief," he said.
