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  • Book: Bill Clinton's Lawyer Saved Kofi Annan

    05/09/2006 7:36:35 PM PDT · by do the dhue · 35 replies · 969+ views
    newsmax ^ | 5/8/2006 | Carl Limbacher
    A new book alleges that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan was let off easy by investigators looking into Iraq's Oil for Food scandal thanks to the intervention of ex-President Clinton's impeachment lawyer, Greg Craig. In "The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World," Fox News Channel reporter Eric Shawn lifts the curtain on the Volcker Committee's investigation into the imbroglio - and explores how Annan managed to slip the noose. "Accusations that [former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul] Volcker went easy on Kofi persisted," he reports. So much so that two of his investigators, Robert...
  • Annan Didn't Disclose Key Contacts

    05/13/2005 3:24:49 PM PDT · by mathprof · 56 replies · 2,481+ views
    AP ^ | 5/13/05 | JOHN SOLOMON and DESMOND BUTLER
    U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan did not initially tell investigators in the oil-for-food probe that he met twice with representatives of his son's employer as the Swiss company began soliciting United Nations business. Annan's omissions last November raised credibility concerns with the chief investigator, Robert Parton, that persisted even after Annan later provided his recollections about the meetings. Investigators had uncovered the contacts in calendars recovered from computers, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Parton sought to make an issue of Annan's veracity, concluding the U.N. chief wasn't initially forthcoming and his story evolved as new facts...