UN Thieves escape scrutiny

AUSTRALIAN government officials have known for at least five years that Saddam Hussein was corrupting the oil-for-food program but, like the UN, turned a "blind eye to it", according to evidence at the Cole inquiry.

Snowball’s evidence directly contradicts claims by the Howard Government it was not aware of corruption in the oil-for-food program until the UN's Volcker report revealed last October that AWB had provided Saddam's regime with $290million in the lead-up to the 2003 war.

The evidence is mounting, and as we have previously observed, embattled witnesses are going to start talking. The fact is, sooner or later given the evidence the Australian (Cole) Inquiry into the UN Oil for Food scandal has; somebody was bound to se the light.
Apart from those witnesses who had left AWB because of the unethical behaviour, a Mr Snowball had to come along.
Tim Snowball worked in AWB's New York office until 2001. In his own words his role was "to liaise with the Australian mission to the United Nations in New York (but not the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)"

As the links get bigger, the idea of any form of real justice becomes more remote. The Australian government look set to walk away from this barely singed. The UN will most probably escape scrutiny, despite growing evidence of duplicity.
No one will be game enough to raise the question of the Bush Administrations role inj this scandal, but the cover-up is there.
Unless those AWB executives who are set to take the fall for this scandal become miraculously credible, they will go down on their own. Its like the old spy movies where the main character is warned, “don’t get caught. You will be on your own. We don’t know you.”
The real problem for the executives is that corporate misdeeds are a great let out for governments. The public, even with the facts, is reluctant to pin too much on government authorities, but they are more than willing to allow the corporate clowns to take the heat.