Prepare For Another Shock: Special Blue-Ribbon Panel Whitewashes Oil-For-Food

Let's face it, that's what these panels are paid to do-- make a story go away:

Investigators probing the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq said Tuesday there was not enough evidence to show that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan knew of a controversial contract bid by his son's employer.

But the report criticized the U.N. chief for not determining the exact nature of his son's relationship with the Swiss firm. The conclusion in the report, released Tuesday by Paul Volcker, was not the clear vindication the United Nations chief had wanted.

Thank God for small favors, eh?

I can't wait for Volcker's report on those Jordanian peace-keepers/child-rapists/goat-sodomizers. My sources tell me he'll mildly criticize the Jordanian "soldiers" for not having the common courtesy to give the goats the "reach-around" mandated by the Geneva Conventions.

posted by Ace at 12:27 PM

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