Posted on 05/15/2004 9:30:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON - The U.S.-backed investigation into alleged abuses of the United Nations' Oil for Food program in Iraq has already collected more than 20,000 files from Saddam Hussein's old regime and hired an American accounting firm to conduct the review.
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show the U.S.-backed, Iraqi-run Board of Supreme Audit selected the Ernst & Young firm this week to oversee the audit of the documents gathered from at least 16 former ministries of Saddam's government.
The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority also is trying to head off a separate investigation launched by former Iraqi dissident Ahmad Chalabi, now an influential member of the Iraqi Governing Council, in hopes that a single, independent investigation will have more credibility.
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That's a whole lot of paper!
Sounds series to me.
Are you trying to spell prisoners or pornographers?
But the media DENY any bias..
They are LIARS, of course.
The media is engaged in WAR against America.
Would it be to our advantage even if this scandal pushed the prison abuse scandal to page 14A of the newspapers and off the news networks? Or would it just be another psychological "I'm so sick of Iraq...." in the minds of the American people and backfire on our cause? Does this make any sense?
Kofi Annan must resign! [sardonic laughter]
I hope a we get to scan through all 20,000 pages. They should be scanned, OCR'ed and put on the internet.
Most newspapers probably will not even mention it. It goes against their preconceived pro Saddam ideology. To them, it's all about nothing to see here, let's move on.
So will some Dems since Marc Rich has already been mentioned as a major league player is the scam. There may even be ties to the Clinton White House.
That would be a shock!
BTW, has anyone suggested that the National Guardsmen who were involved in the prison porno could have intented to sell their work when they got back? Porn, unfortunately, is lucrative, and the way they were carrying on, I am suspicious that one or more enterprising "youths" didn't convince the others that they could make a lot of money.
Anyone think that we could set up a viewing room, and charge the sickos who want to view this stuff so that we can help pay for Iraq? Just joking, this stuff should be shredded.
Chalabi and his backers have given no sign of backing down. This week, they issued a press release accusing Bremer of "stalling on the issue" and "undermining the Iraq Governing Council's efforts to get to the truth."
While Ernst & Young has just begun its work, the Iraqi Board of Supreme Audit already has collected relevant files from numerous former agencies of Saddam's deposed regime, according to documents obtained by AP.
Why doesn't Bremer simply allow Chalabi to continue also to investigate? This smells of cover-up, even though that is not Bremer's presumed intention. Myasbge Bremer is under orders from the poltical guys or the NSC in the White House. If so, shame on them, & they should stay the hell out of it.
Maybe its the State Dept. & the CIA, who have long-standing & well-documented vendettas against Chalabi.
If so, their (State& CIA's) parochial vendetta against Chalabi should be subordinated to getting the TRUTH out (through an Iraqi channel) about the rampant corruption UN Oil for Palaces program, inclduing the subversion of French, Russian & German and other politicians & Business, religious, & political leaders.
Perhaps Bremer thinks further exsposure of the UN's corruption & complicity would undermine the UN envoy's asumption of power in July in Iraq. If so, tough toenails!
That would create more news & more competition, & more URGENCY, both of which are desperately needed in this travesty!
Gee I wonder why?
Oops I should have paid better attention when I previewed, but it was a typo. I meant prisoners of course
FYI
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