Accrington Web - The admirable Ms. Rosett

"The admirable Claudia Rosett, who ought to have had the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism last year but for some reason didn't, (something to do with her subject, the oil-for-food scam and other horrors at the United Nations), has her own blog. And it is full of goodies, as you would expect.

Her top two stories cover the United Nations. In the very latest one, she raises a point many of us have made before:

If Jeffrey Skilling had worked for the UN instead of Enron....He'd be looking forward to years of dining out with his pals and collecting his pension in comfort. Instead, found guilty of fraud and conspiracy, he's facing a 24 year sentence.

When it comes to the oil-for-food, "the biggest scam in the history of humanitarian relief", on the other hand, not a single official involved has been fired, much less prosecuted. SecGen Kofi Annan, (father of Kojo), goes from one high-faluting statement to another, while his "hand-picked" head of the programme, Benon Sevan, (he of the useful aunt), has retired to Cyprus on a full pension."

The above taken from EU Referendum To read more, it's the fourth article down on the main page.