that the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Minnesota's Norm Coleman, will soon make public the names of prominent individuals from several countries who received lucrative and oh-so-illegal oil contracts from Saddam Hussein in violation of the U.N. program designed to keep the Iraqi people from starving while depriving their dictator of cash. [...]
Among others to be named are a member of British Parliament, a right-wing politician in Russia and a former senior aide to Russia's President, Vladimir Putin.
Now maybe the Telegraph can get its money back from Galloway.
I'm going to open a bottle of bubbly when the iron bars clang shut behind him.
UPDATE
The man leading the UN internal investigation, Volcker, is against Congress getting their hands on former investigator Parton's files. He cites the danger to peoples lives as the reason.
"Lives of certain witnesses are at stake," he added. "We're not playing games here, we are dealing, and let me just emphasize this, in some cases, with lives."
But as The Belmont Club points out:
We have Annan's and Malloch Brown's categorical assurance on that Volcker found nothing criminal in combing through the UN system. What is there in Parton's box of documents that may be worth killing witnesses for?
What indeed?
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