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Posted on 11/14/2004 5:33:29 AM PST by MidTown_Doc
Kofi Annan’s New Sex Scandal
You would think that with managing the Oil for Food scandal, working to undermine U.S. foreign policy, pushing for global taxes and advocating a sweeping restructuring of the Security Council, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan would be going out of his way to avoid creating more problems for himself and the world body.
Not so much.
On October 28, a report from the U.N.’s in-house watchdog revealed that Annan personally dismissed sexual harassment charges made by an American female U.N. staffer against the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, overruling the independent U.N. investigative panel that had backed the woman’s claims.
According to spokesman Fred Eckhard, the Secretary General "found the allegations unsustainable on a legal basis." An Agence France-Presse wire story reports that when "pressed to explain what that meant, a visibly irritated Eckhard replied: ‘Legal basis, legal basis, legal basis.’"
(Is it just us, or does this sound an awful lot like "no controlling legal authority?" Maybe Eckhard attended the Al Gore school of public relations.)
In response, Edward Patrick Flaherty, the attorney representing the accuser, told The New York Times, "This demonstrates that there are two sets of rules at the U.N., one for the protected class and one for the rest. [The High Commissioner] is part of that class. My client is not."
That sounds about right. The first class, of which the High Commissioner is a distinguished member, includes those U.N. employees and officials who engage in nepotism, corrupt activities and abusive behavior. The second, apparently shrinking class, includes those U.N. employees who work hard trying to pursue the world body’s ideals and objectives.
It’s increasingly clear that, like his allegedly lecherous colleague, Kofi Annan is part of the corrupt class. In this case, Annan went to a great deal of trouble to pardon a senior U.N. official who, at least according to the U.N.’s investigative panel for such matters, was guilty of sexual harassment and was quite possibly a repeat offender.
Previously, the senior U.N. official in charge of the U.N.-Iraq Oil for Food program allegedly took bribes from Saddam Hussein’s regime. Meanwhile, Annan’s son helped an outside contractor win a lucrative Oil for Food contract from the world body.
The stories out of the United Nations are sounding like a broken record, with one report of corruption following another. The U.N. leadership increasingly appears to be little better than a multinational kleptocracy. And it’s clear that no matter how Herculean the efforts of the committed, hard-working U.N. employees, the world body is doomed to fail in anything — and everything — it pursues.
side line editorial comment of the writer: "...Annan went to a great deal of trouble to pardon a senior U.N. official who, at least according to the U.N.’s investigative panel for such matters, was guilty of sexual harassment and was quite possibly a repeat offender."
Time to scrap the entire U.N. as a complete, utter and total failure.
It is a den of American-hating socialist thugs and thieves. Nothing more. Nothing less.
When one thinks of sexual harassment charges, Bill Clinton's name definitely comes to mind.
bttt
I was also wondering where all the talk of Clinton moving into the UN was festering? You almost wonder......
If Kerry got into office, this coupled with the oil for food would have given him incredible leverage to quietly force Annan out of office.
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You stole my thunder. I was going to suggest that this latest sex scandal is just the opening salvo in the Internationalist's drive to recruit Disgraced President Knee-Pads as Kofi Cup's replacement.
It does not serve the United States, it only attempts to put the rest of the world on an equal footing.
Pathetic when France ran to all those small African countries appealing to them to vote against us with regards to the Iraq war.
I thought residents of the permanent members of the Security Council were prohibited under the U.N. Charter from ever serving as Secretary General (not that Clinton ever let anything like the law or rules stand in his way).
Just a story about another New York crime family.
WJC: Been there, done that. BFD.
GWs Revenge!!! LMAO
The UN should be in Brussels, with all the other crank, corrupt Euroweasel institutions like the World "Court", and we should be reclaiming some very valuable real estate.
In addition to getting some unruly and unprosecutable "diplomats" (spies?) out of the US, we should not shoulder the burden of their costs or military support either. We have work to do in the WOT that they will not do.
This High commisioner has no name? Bobo Bomumdo?
Here's a thought: why don't we (the US) declare Kofi Annan persona no grata and boot his butt out of the US? His residence here is a courtesy and not a requirement. As the head of the UN, we don't have to allow him to stay here and, if he can't come to the US, the UN would have to go to him.
Maybe that's the way to get the UN out of the us and the US out of this odious, stinking pile of decaying fish.
duh........
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