Ex-Oil-for-Food Prober Called to Testify Before Congress

FOX News ^ | 4/29/05 | Jonathan Hunt and Per Carlson

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NEW YORK — A former senior investigator on the Independent Inquiry Committee (search) who thinks the panel has gone too soft on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (search) in its Oil-for-Food investigation has been called to testify before Congress next week.

Rep. Chris Shays (search), chairman of the House Government Reform's Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, issued a subpoena to Robert Parton (search) on Thursday. Parton on Wednesday night handed over documents relating to the investigation after he was issued a subpoena by another panel, the House International Relations Committee, on April 29.

"He [Parton] did decide to leave his work because he didn't agree with the findings of the report" regarding who is to blame in the $64 billion scandal released by the IIC in March, Shays told FOX News on Friday.

Parton and another IIC investigator, Miranda Duncan (search), left the panel headed by Paul Volcker (search) in mid-April. They accused the IIC of downplaying Annan's role in the scandal in an interim report released by the panel last March.

"The whole reason why the Volcker report was taking place was to bring confidence to the U.N. ... we would learn the good, the bad and the ugly. The bottom line is, we don't really have confidence in that report," Shays said.

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Subpoenas are in. Let's see if the U.N. crooks try to throw up any roadblocks now...

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PS: The date on this story is today 5/6, not 4/29. Whoops.

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Parton's lawyer is Lanny Davis. Bet that ain't a coinkydink...

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Yup Volcker is trying Dipimm to prevent this guy from testifying, as far as Ldavis as aawyer bob bennett and company represent kofia. and a fun time will be had by all.