UNSCAM Update
From the New York Post:The vast majority of the United Nations' oil-for-food contracts in Iraq have mysteriously vanished, crippling investigators trying to uncover fraud in the program, a government report charged yesterday.
The General Accounting Office report, presented at a congressional hearing into the scandal-plagued program, determined that 80 percent of U.N. records had not been turned over.
The world body claims it transferred all information it had - including 3,059 contracts worth about $6.2 billion for delivery of food and other civilian goods to the post-Saddam governing body, the Coalition Provisional Authority.
But the GAO report also found that a database the U.N. transferred to the authority was "unreliable because it contained mathematical and currency errors in calculation of contract costs," the report found.
Matt's Chat
I am not surprised. The UN ran the program so poorly that it shouldn't surprise anybody that the documents aren't in order. The UN is a miserable failure at peacekeeping, and now it would appear that the organization isn't capable of humanitarian assistance either. What purpose does the UN serve these days? The world wonders...Mark's Remarks
I would look down at the
This is reprehensible. This whole scandal has shown the UN to be a miserable failure at peacekeeping, at recordkeeping, and most of all, in integrity. It has become nothing more than a Hate America First Club, where they are happy to funnel away our contribution (the largest in the World) to projects in places that hate us, and then even while they are taking our money, they are in bed with terrorist. The UN serves no purpose other than yet another example of a miserable failure. Nuff said.
