Court delays U.N. oil-for-food case for a 4th time

[maddezmom]

By Evelyn Leopold
1 hour, 27 minutes ago

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.S. federal court judge Tuesday extended for the fourth time an order barring a former investigator for the U.N. oil-for-food probe from turning over documents to two U.S. congressional committees.


The delay, until July 6, was granted by U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina in Washington. All parties have asked for repeated delays while they try to work out an agreement.

The restraining order, first issued on May 9, blocks Robert Parton, a former FBI agent, from handing over boxes of documents to two congressional committees that subpoenaed them after he resigned from the U.N.-appointed Independent Inquiry Committee.

Parton left the probe, led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, believing the inquiry ignored evidence critical of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose son worked for a company that received a lucrative contract in Iraq under the $67 billion program.

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[tallahasseedem]

1. Of course they did...

it would just add another lie to the already growing list of excuses on why we went to war.