Reply With QuoteIt's about ing time.
Since we don't have anything to investigate here in the States because, well, the Repugs control everything. Republican representatives have launched a congressional investigation into getting back at those evil French for not supporting us in Iraq.
12:02 pm: AP ENTERPRISE: Congressional investigators are trying to determine whether French bank was lax in monitoring $60 billion in U.N. oil-for-food program
By DESMOND BUTLER | Associated Press
September 27, 2004
NEW YORK - U.S. Congressional investigators examining "a semitrailer truck load" of subpoenaed do ents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than $60 billion (?49 billion) for the U.N. oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the former Iraqi government, officials told The Associated Press.
Although BNP Paribas isn't the target of the probe involving companies and individuals in 50 countries, the do ents could provide a road map to alleged corruption at the United Nations and by politicians from France, Russia, Britain, Indonesia and Gulf states who have been implicated.
The three congressional panels that subpoenaed BNP Paribas do ents are looking into whether the bank met minimum standards that require financial ins utions to identify customers, partly to prevent money laundering. The committees are among at least five in Congress investigating allegations of U.N. corruption and reports that Iraqis skimmed billions of dollars in kickbacks through deals administered by the United Nations.
Investigators also are pressing for information from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which is responsible for regulating foreign banks operating in the United States.
"From our perspective this is a scandal of overwhelming proportions. There are so many pieces. We want to follow the money wherever it leads," said Sen. Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican and chairman of the Senate Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
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It's about ing time.
Getting back at the French? WTF?
Oh, I forgot, the liberal dip s think that Saddam laundering money, then using it to sponsor terrorism, is a good thing.
Not to mention paying off the UN folks so they'd look the other way while illegal arms deals were made between Iraq and France, Germany, and Russia.
Carry on.
Sorry, AHF, any links between Kerry's buddies and terrorist organizations are just manufactured bull -speculation by the Republican party to scare the out of disinfranchised African American voters so Halliburton can outsource more US jobs and line their pockets with more dirty-oil money.
How they find the time while planning another ficticious terrorist attack on innocent American civilians to make it look like extremists did it is completely beyond me.
He didn't pay them off to look the other way...he paid them off as protection money thinking they'd be able to rein in the United States with their VETO power on the Security Council."Not to mention paying off the UN folks so they'd look the other way while illegal arms deals were made between Iraq and France, Germany, and Russia."
If I were Saddam Hussein, I'd demand my money back from Chirac, Schroeder, Putin, and Annan.
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