Another U. N. Scandal in the making...

[self_evident]

The agency, which aims to coordinate and improve weather reporting around the globe, is small by United Nations standards, with just 350 employees and an annual budget of roughly $75 million.

To me, this is the real scandal. The UN has a 350 person, $75 mill a year weather agency? And it's considered small?

[blanknoone]

That can happen because often there is a swift rotation of international staffers.

"Hassan was very close to the man who was then our secretary general," he said, referring to Godwin Olu Patrick Obasi of Nigeria. Mr. Obasi had run the meteorological agency for more than 20 years, and Mr. Hassan had boasted of being close to him. "They were always together, so we knew that if you annoyed Muhammad Hassan, you were annoying the big man," Mr. Ngwira said.

So when the turnover isn't too fast to be accountable it is too slow?

[blanknoone]

Fred Eckhard, the spokesman for Secretary General Kofi Annan, said that while the specialized agency was in the "U.N. constellation," it operated independently of the Secretariat in New York. "They are responsible for cleaning up whatever might have gone wrong there," he said.

Proof that the top is denying its responsibilities and deliberatly creating a climate of corruption...on our dime.

[Fedora]

Thanks!

[BushisTheMan]

Kofi must go!

[RobertMorrow]

Go to: http://www.getusout.org/un/index.html . Then go lobby at http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm .
The United Nations is a corrupt disgrace and it is time for the USA to WITHDRAW from and defund the United Nations. Please tell your senators, congressmen and everyone you know to support Representative Ron Paul’s bill H.R. 1146 which would WITHDRAW the USA from the United Nations, prohibit US funds going to the UN and prohibit US troops serving under UN command. H.R 1146 is the American Sovereignty Restoration Act.

[BushisTheMan]

If it were anybody's bill but Ron Paul's, I might.