Posted on 10/02/2004 5:04:07 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
NEW YORK — FOX News offered a response to a United Nations letter that raised questions about a series on the U.N. Oil-for-Food program that aired Sept. 19 on "Breaking Point."
The FOX News response follows. To read United Nations' response, click here.
FOX News producers of the documentary “United Nations Blood Money” defended the show against U.N. criticism and stood firmly behind the accuracy and fairness of their “Breaking Point” investigation.
The FOX investigation looked at the ways the $100 billion Oil-for-Food scheme had been fleeced by Saddam Hussein, possibly influenced U.N. Security Council decisions to refuse to wage war against Saddam and might have funneled money to current Iraqi insurgents and perhaps to Al Qaeda.
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I hope they keep doing follow ups.
Hey Dan Rather... Take a look, now that's COURAGE!
It's about time this made it to the mainstream news. It will show people what the actual result of sKerry's "global test" is: corruption and ineffectiveness. This is why Bush couldn't get a big coalition, because Russia, France and Germany were getting billions from Saddam.
Note to Dan: "You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em, ......."
I hope FOX keeps the pressure on them! It was a very good program.
----maybe I'm dreaming but hopefully this could be an October "surprise" breaking for Bush-----???
This has been out all year, the left is figuring that people just don't care. An "October Surprise" needs to be something devestating to sKerry or a definite conclusion to bin Laden's fate.
I wonder why Fox is stomping a mud puddle in the chests of the other media. Could it be that they are actually researching their stories?
Hmmm.
Anan was up to his earballs in the scheme. He should be the one to take the fall. More fun to blame it on Hussein, of course, but Anan IS where the buck is supposed to stop.
Humph.
This is true Journalism. Kudos to Fox News, Brian Gaffney. People, we need to let them know we appreciate them.
Throw in 'Coffee annan and his kid and you are there.
Stories like this will set Fox far apart from the other networks. It's about friggin time!!
Our side NEVER hammers this crap nearly as hard as we should. This type of corruption/criminal activity seems to be happening all the time, with liberals the perps. Sites like Free Republic jump on it, talk radio jumps on it, but our elected officials always let it die, and the libs get away with it, emboldened to get away with worse in the future.
The UN corrupt. Who'd a thunk it.....
Members of the UN ought to be in the dock right beside Saddamn.
They must be deeply saddened by how the world has changed against them. By their view, the US was so very close to co-optation back when Clinton was POTUS. Had Al Gore only carried his own state, or 9-11 had not occurred, they would have by now been ready to complete that process by annointing Clinton the next Secretary General under an auspicious climate, effectively subordinating our highly inconvenient constitution to the ever-expanding nexus of world treaties, while aiming to make us the subservient muscle of their serious initiatives.
Like all political organizations their first priority is for self-preservation. OFF offered them an independent revenue stream that they sorely miss, a Maslovian base to build a new hierarchy upon. They cannot think of growth or consolidation of prior growth while the base has been shaken. So they need to whitewash this investigation, dismiss it as unproven, attack the critics, so they'll be able to launch other programs of this ilk without similar suspicions pestering their efforts, all the while seeking to institute an independent world tax.
When the evil Soviet empire imploded, the UN is where the world socialists looked for a promising new start. It is time for this 20th century forum to be shut down and replaced by a League of Free Nations. Render all of those insidious "world treaties" upon which people derive "international law", without effect virtually overnight, or subject to provisional review by the new League.
Maybe Rather should have concentrated his efforts on a REAL story that they haven't covered worth a damn, instead of humping forgeries as facts.
And they still wonder why Fox continues to kick their ratings butt? LOL! That doesn't take any investigative journalism!
Yes, this is so obvious. It is painful to think that the UN charade continues and not one network besides FOX will look at it. When John sKerry wants to get these nations to the table he'd better bring Theresa's billions, cuz that's why they wouldn't budge before, especially France.
I think the UN should read this article.
Saddam ‘bought UN allies’ with oil
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1291280,00.html
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