1 posted on
04/28/2004 5:31:56 AM PDT by
Stultis
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To: Stultis
Let's move on, nothing to see here...
BUMP
2 posted on
04/28/2004 5:34:06 AM PDT by
tm22721
(May the UN rest in peace)
To: Stultis
If C-Span doesn't come through, a live webcast (during the event only) will be available at the committee's website. You might also consider calling the committee or Henry Hydes office to see if they can coordinate getting C-Span on this event:
http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/
Committee on International Relations
U.S. House of Representatives
Henry J. Hyde, Chairman
CONTACT: Sam Stratman, (202) 226-7875, April 27, 2004
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For IMMEDIATE Release
Alleged Abuses & Oil-for-Food Program
Hyde Schedules Wednesday Oversight Hearing on Issues
of Accountability and Transparency in U.N. Program
BACKGROUND: In a March report on Iraqi assets stolen by Saddam Husseins regime, the General Accounting Office (GAO) doubled to more than $10 billion its estimate of alleged theft and illegal oil smuggling from the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program. At issue are allegations of malfeasance ignored, and even condoned, by U.N. officials responsible for the program. Since its inception in 1996, more than $64 billion of Iraqi oil was sold to finance the purchase of food, medicine, and other humanitarian relief efforts for the Iraqi population. To ensure that the program operated under international standards, inspectors were employed by the U.N. to oversee the program. Throughout its seven-year life, the Oil-for-Food Program underwent frequent changes to cope with methods employed by Saddam Hussein to circumvent these safeguards in order to enrich himself and his cronies, including demands for kickbacks from companies wishing to do business with Iraq. Last week, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan named Paul Volcker, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to lead an independent investigation of the program. In Iraq, the finance ministry has begun a separate inquiry, with the help of international auditing firms, in an attempt to locate stolen assets.
WHAT: Full Committee Oversight Hearing: The United Nations Oil-for-Food Program: Issues of Accountability and Transparency
WHEN: 10:30 a.m., Wednesday April 28
WHERE: Room 2172 Rayburn House Office Building
WITNESSES: Joseph A. Christoff, Director, International Affairs and Trade, U.S. General Accounting Office; Howar Ziad, U.N. Representative, Kurdistan Regional Government; Michael Soussan, Former Program Coordinator, U.N. Oil-for-Food Program; Danielle Pletka, Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute; Claudia Rosett, Senior Fellow, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; and John G. Ruggie, Professor, Harvard University.
3 posted on
04/28/2004 5:34:33 AM PDT by
Stultis
To: Stultis
bu,p
To: Stultis
I mean bump 8^)
To: Stultis
The corruption of the UN is so apparent but so un-PC. It won't be covered.
The reason is that the corruption of the media, their lack of honest principle, exceeds even that shown by paid off UN functionaries and EU criminals.
6 posted on
04/28/2004 5:36:33 AM PDT by
KC Burke
(Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
To: Stultis
http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations Live webcast of meeting (Only available during event. Check Committee schedule.)
9 posted on
04/28/2004 5:42:48 AM PDT by
OXENinFLA
To: Stultis
John Kerry must be giving another of his rousing speec.... Zzzzzzzz!
11 posted on
04/28/2004 6:07:35 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Stultis
I think that the major media is not owned by Americans but by Europe and the meddle east. The same with a lot of the stocks on the stock market.Why do you think that every time that something happens in Europe or the middle east that they don't like and is in America's earnest that the stock market goes down and causes a lot of concern and talk to back off. The same with a lot of our politicians who are owned by lobbyist with middle east, European, or other special interest groups.
13 posted on
04/28/2004 6:11:30 AM PDT by
AIC
To: Stultis
Maybe Brian Lamb got some kickbacks, (it's a joke Brian).
14 posted on
04/28/2004 6:15:23 AM PDT by
boomop1
To: Stultis
Look, felony perjury is not impeachable, oral sex is not sex, advocating the cessation of infanticide is 'violence against women', and taking pay-offs from a murderous dictator to ignore his activities is not corruption! When are you people going to get with the pogrom?!?!
15 posted on
04/28/2004 6:16:07 AM PDT by
HenryLeeII
("The war on terror is not a figure of speech, it is an inescapable calling of our generation." -GWB)
To: Stultis
How do you know they do not have cameras scheduled for the Hearing?
To: Stultis
This is a UN issue; CSPAN mission is coverage of US political process.....
To: Stultis
I called and complained. The woman informed me they would not be broadcasting these hearings and it was a *programming* decision. I was transferred to where I could leave a *comment*.
So much for C-Span being after the truth, eh?
31 posted on
04/28/2004 9:01:17 AM PDT by
TheStickman
(If a moron becomes senile how can you tell?)
To: Stultis
To: Stultis
Oh well it just figures , doesn't it? This story of the UN corruption must be brought to the attention of the American people. They have to understand that , there is no UN to turn our troubles over too. They are corrupt and they cowered, ran out , when things got tough.
36 posted on
04/28/2004 11:44:47 AM PDT by
fly_so_free
(Never under estimate the treachery of the democrat party-Save USA vote a dem out of office)
To: Stultis
I've also been watching for a rerun of VP Cheney's Westminister speech - nothing! I sent them an email today.
40 posted on
04/28/2004 12:53:24 PM PDT by
CyberAnt
(The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
To: Stultis
C-span2 had some kind of liberal Democratic Congressmen and Senators lovefest on a bit ago...arranged at tables like they were having a hearing rather than a free media bonanza.
Hitlery, et al, were there nodding their heads in solemn agreement with whichever one was getting free face time at the moment.
Yuck!
To: All
Is CSPAN biased? Cuz whenever i've seen it, and grant you that isn't often, i've noticed how the hosts bend over backwards not to impose their own opinions into the discussion.
To: Stultis
This is on C-SPAN's schedule for tomorrow. Obviously not the actual hearings, but it's a start. Maybe they'll show the full hearings later. The time is EDT:
07:45 am 0:45 (est.) LIVE Call-In Iraq Oil-for-Food Program C-SPAN, Washington Journal Nile Gardiner , Heritage Foundation
43 posted on
04/28/2004 3:42:35 PM PDT by
Brandon
To: Stultis
I detest C-Span...Steve, the punk, and Brian Lamb are totally left wing.
44 posted on
04/28/2004 4:09:39 PM PDT by
Ann Archy
(Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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