Posted on 12/29/2004 1:19:43 PM PST by rightalien
The New York Sun is reporting that both the Clinton Administration and UN officials were warned early on of problems with the UN Oil for Food Program:
The Clinton administration and the United Nations were warned of a crucial problem in the oil-for-food program when it was first designed, Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a former British consultant to the Iraqi Governing Council, told The New York Sun yesterday. Investigators under Paul Volcker admit that this problem now "seriously hampers" their probe.
Mr. Hankes-Drielsma said that Madeline Albright, the former secretary of state, as well as U.N. officials who designed the program before it was officially accepted by Saddam in late 1996, were warned by Iraqi dissidents that they should not allow oil to be sold through shadow companies and middlemen.
Such companies allowed for an elaborate scheme of bribes that allegedly were paid by Saddam in the form of allocations, or "vouchers," of millions of barrels of oil to friendly politicians, government ministries, and U.N. officials. Those companies were set in a way that was designed to hide the true beneficiaries, or end users.
It is becoming clear that there are problematic answers to the classic Watergate question: "What did the Secretary of State know, and when did she know it?"
Madeline Albright should be subpoened by Senator Coleman's investigative subcommittee, and required to answer under oath about what she knew, and what she communicated to President Clinton. She will no doubt invoke Executive Privilege. Let her do so before the cameras.
Hat tip: Ed Lasky
Well yes. Slick Willy was at least once removed from the cookie jar. The actual person with the hand in the jar is unknown but he worked for Marc Rich who was Clinton's chief rogue.
Don't forget the similar theft of IMF loans filtered through the Russians and Switzerland, also the work of mr Rich.
Where the fudge is Sandy Berger? What is the delay in putting him in stocks?
Even if they didn't know about it they should be investigated for being so incompetent.
Coleman MUST pursue this. It could torpedo the PIAPS in '08.
huh, imagine that.
Last year, why were the dems so vocal in their absolute statements of what couldn't be proven, i.e., that there was no connection between Irag/Saddam and OBL/9-11? It wasn't about invading Irag, is was about deawing attention away from Willie!
Willie probably has 100 million hidden away, ready for his use to get Hillie elected.
Slick willie and hitlery; scumbags of preposterous, proportion are all set-up in NYC for a second run at power with the demoncrats and their snivelling snakes at the UN, NAACP, NARAL, PP, UNICEF, IPP, ACLU, Rainbow Coalition, et al. The next four years, in addition to fighting terrorism, we should smoke these bas-tards out and clean their clock like the marines did in Fallujah. We cannot afford another round of these gangster garbage, governmental types if we hope to live freely like in the free republic.
I like your take on this...
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