UNSCAM Update

No matter how hard the UN tries, the "Oil for Food" corruption investigation continues:

Congressional committees investigating allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq are at odds with the organization's own inquiry over access to records and personnel, legislators and United Nations officials said yesterday.
The officials and diplomats said that in meetings in Washington on July 13, Paul A. Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve who is leading the United Nations' internal investigation, rejected requests from members of Congress for access to review documents and to interview United Nations officials being scrutinized by his panel.
"He wants us to do nothing now while he does what he can, by persuasion, since his panel can't fire or subpoena anyone," said Representative Christopher Shays, Republican of Connecticut, who attended one of the meetings. "But we will press on."

And this from Glenn:

The campaigns were backed by MPs including George Galloway, the independent MP for Glasgow Kelvin, who was expelled by the Labour Party. There is no suggestion that any British MPs profited personally or knew about the alleged corruption.
The United Nations oil-for-food programme, which allowed Iraq to use some of its oil revenues to buy food and aid between 1996 and last year, is believed to have been used by Saddam to buy influence around the world, break sanctions and sustain his regime and military machine.
Some estimates suggest he earned £2.6 billion in illegal surcharges and "service fees" on UN-supervised contracts.

...The "individuals" to whom he referred are understood to be three Middle East businessmen living in Britain. Two of them gave money to the Mariam Appeal run by Mr Galloway. A third ran an anti-sanctions campaign, Friendship Across Borders, whose patron was Tam Dalyell, the longest-serving MP and which organised visits to Iraq by politicians.
The three businessmen are alleged to have sold oil rights at a profit, exploiting a loophole in the oil-for-food scheme.

The noose tightens.