Adrian Gonzalez-Maltes, attorney for Oil-for-Food witness Pierre Mouselli whose connections to Kojo Annan were detailed earlier on this blog and elsewhere, has written a lengthy letter to Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme. Dated today May 9, 2005, it begins:
Oh behalf of my client Pierre Mouselli, I would like to draw your attention to the treatement he has received from the Independent Inquiry Committee (”IIC”) in the course of its investigation. Mr Mouselli is particularly concerned that you be informed of these facts in the light of the concerns you mentioned at your press conference on May 6 regarding persons in the investigation whose “lives are at stake.”
The rest of this letter and accompanying documents are available for you to read at the Pajamas Media website. They include information about the behavior of the IIC or of some of its members that should be of interest to all, especially in anticipation of possible testimony by resigned Oil-for-Food investigator Robert Parton before Congressional Committees.
Although several in the media have received this letter or will receive it, we at Pajamas Media believe such documents should be available to the public in their entirety and not taken out of context or redacted. This is a web exclusive as of this moment.
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26 Comments
1. reel cobra:Very cool, Roger. It is begun. Gauntlet is thrown down.
Very cool.
May 9, 2005 - 4:48 pm 2. Luther McLeod:Roger, good job and congratulations to all of you for striding out to the future. Good Luck!
May 9, 2005 - 4:49 pm 3. Jamie Irons:Roger,
I just commented on this over at LGF as follows:
It’s reassuring to see that the UN and its affiliated “Oil-For-Food” “investigating” entity are at least entirely consistent, always behaving in a reprehensible, treacherous and cowardly fashion.
Great work, PJ’s!
Jamie Irons
May 9, 2005 - 5:21 pm 4. Nathan Lanier:Hi Roger,
Nice work.
I’d like to take a second to make a critical observation. Admittedly, I haven’t been around to follow the birth and implementation of the “Pajamas Media”. However, as avid a blog reader and news junkie, the name of turns me off. I understand where you got the idea, but it doesn’t seem to sit right for some reason. The pajamas joke, while funny, does wear a bit thin after a while and the collaboration will have a hard time being taken as seriously as I think it should with that name.
Just a thought. Keep up the good work, and I look forward to reading from my pajamas.
-Nate
May 9, 2005 - 5:37 pm 5. Rick Ballard:Well, the UN is taking Congress to court to block release of the Parton documents. They’re calling Parton a thief, too.
We really need to chip in for a copy of ‘The Internet for Dummies’ for Mr. Volcker. That or a trainload of whitewash.
May 9, 2005 - 5:55 pm 6. Terrye:Man, that was a long letter. An editor would have been useful. I got kinda lost in there.
So today Volcker is trying to stop the Congress…
this is getting bigger an bigger.
May 9, 2005 - 5:55 pm 7. yama-arashi:An historic first entry. Timely release of primary sources as an aspect of political warfare. As a C-Span fan this brings me great pleasure. C-Span with a trench coat. Hurrah!!! My only suggestion for Pajamas Media (though I do agree with Nathan) is to have a page or section of only primary sources such as this, appropriately grouped and highlighted, all given a respectful silence, and left to stand or fall on their own, This seems to me a wonderful example, par excellence, of the nature of a “blog” (also hate that word) scoop. It also allows people like Mouselli and Parton protection not afforded them by the greater part of the MSM.
The document certainly puts Volcker’s recent plea for returning the boxes of evidence given to Congress by Parton, boxes which now rest in some room under the dome, hopefully well guarded (and by now well read), in a unique light. Also puts Volcker and Annan in a bright, singular, spotlight. The ducks are lining up, who steps up to shoot them down and who runs away will decide how I vote for decades and decades to come. If Hillary really wanted to become President, not that I’d vote for her, but I’m just saying, she’d give Coleman a call and go at the UN with fury. (Fat chance!??. By the way just what is Lanny Davis up to?)
May 9, 2005 - 6:01 pm 8. Ron:The United Nations is acting more like a criminal organization more and more. The was an article in LGF this morning from the Canada Free Press that was very interesting, what it said was that the “Kyoto Protocols” was based on phony or fraudulent data and 17,000 professional would attest to that. Here is the link to the story http://canadafreepress.com/2005/cover050705.htm I have written a bit about this at http://acepilots.com/unscam/ its about half way down the lead article and will bring you up to speed. After contacting the people mentioned in the Canada Free Press article, they sent to me a list of very heavy duty professional type including 73 Noble Prize Winners.
Canada signed the ‘Protocols’ just lately and have already found out that the initial $5 Billion Dollar cost was going to be $10 Billion. Guess who cranked up the “Kyoto Protocols,” Mr. Maurice Strong, Kofi Annan’s once [until last week] right hand man at the UN. These Canadian’s have put together a real scam here apparently. Anyway got the names of thousands of Ph.d’s who are really pissed off because no one will listen to them. Wonder if Fox would want them. Will send a copy in case you know some one over at Fox News.
May 9, 2005 - 6:18 pm 9. Rick Ballard:Yama,
What Hillary does is rather dependent upon whether David Rosen is as dumb as Web Hubbell and Susan McDougal. She’s going to be facing ethics charges, at minimum, over her Hollywood fundraiser scam. If Rosen’s smart he’s going to trade her for a light sentence. Remember, Bubba didn’t even bother to pardon the people who went to jail for him and Hillary will never have the power to do so.
May 9, 2005 - 6:24 pm 10. richard mcenroe:But how can people’s lives be at stake if no one was doing anything wrong?
May 9, 2005 - 6:28 pm 11. Jamie Irons:Rick,
I never really thought about this:
Remember, Bubba didn’t even bother to pardon the people who went to jail for him and Hillary will never have the power to do so…
till your mention of it just now.
That really is remarkable. What explains Clinton’s failure to do that, given that he pardoned the (much more culpable) Marc (have I correctly recalled the spelling?) Rich?
Jamie Irons
May 9, 2005 - 6:44 pm 12. yama-arashi:Rick,
Good point. But the Oil for Food Scandal, as it is shaping up, in and of itself and without recourse to the immense forest that surrounds the beast known as Hillary, is one tree worth climbing up and using as a soapbox. She no doubt has an ear to the ground and before the tipping point comes, that is if it is indeed coming, it would behoove her to move out in front. I predict the Bolton vote will tell us a lot. Do Hillary and Bayh and Biden and others with 2008 aspirations on the Dems side use it as a chance to rail against the UN and “though he is not their first choice” support Bolton? If so Annan/Volcker are about to be taken down with a minimal amount of effort.
The best case scenario is a scandal that links Rosen to Annan and gets both the Clintons doing their well deserved Martha stint. But I’m a hopeless partisan with dreams.
Bush has been in an awfully good mood lately.
May 9, 2005 - 6:48 pm 13. Kevin P:Roger:
I find it amusing that there seems to be scant support for the whistle blowing efforts of the UN investigators. Where are the defenders of the Pentagon Papers who said the techinical laws about release the of confidential government papers should be ignored for the greater good of shining light onto darkness. It seems as if there is a double standard in regards to when you honor agreements of confidentiality and when you don’t.It seems as if some of the editorial boards of the MSM who are usually in favor of the positive effects of maximum truth have gone mute.
May 9, 2005 - 6:54 pm 14. PJ:Great work, Roger.
But if lives are in danger, from whom? Who has anything to lose?
Let’s ask Mr. Sevan or his aunt.
Oh, wait…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150640,00.html
May 9, 2005 - 7:24 pm 15. Charlie (Colorado):What explains Clinton’s failure to do that, given that he pardoned the (much more culpable) Marc (have I correctly recalled the spelling?) Rich?
Would it be excessively cynical of me to suggest that a full pardon would reduce the amount of leverage the capo di tutti capos had over them?
How about if I suggested that giving away free pardons would devalue his stock in trade?
Jeez, what would be excessively cynical?
May 9, 2005 - 7:28 pm 16. Rick Ballard:Jamie,
Lefty Frizzell wrote the Clinton Anthem in 1950. Hank Williams Sr. made it famous. A careful study of the anthem reveals everything in the world that anyone needs to know about both of them. OTOH, the anthem for Clinon friends was written and performed by Kenny Rogers. I find the line “the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep” to be especially poignant.
Yama,
Take a look at the links in Ron’s post above. He’s done some real yeoman’s work on this and I believe that the Maurice Strong – Kyoto link will lead back at minimum to connections with the author of ‘Earth for the Unbalanced’ and quite possibly the good old Tides Foundation – you remember the gigolo husband of it’s main benefactor, right? Plus some nice probable ties with the SBL Ltd. boys and its going to be one big group of happy thieves.
Yeah, W is smiling. What’s not to smile about?
May 9, 2005 - 7:28 pm 17. Kyda Sylvester:Clinton pardoned McDougal.
May 9, 2005 - 7:51 pm 18. Jamie Irons:Rick,
Lefty Frizzell wrote the Clinton Anthem in 1950. Hank Williams Sr. made it famous. A careful study of the anthem reveals everything in the world that anyone needs to know about both of them. OTOH, the anthem for Clinton friends was written and performed by Kenny Rogers. I find the line “the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep” to be especially poignant.
As usual, your analysis is superb!
Jamie Iron
May 9, 2005 - 7:56 pm 19. David R. Block:I sincerely hope that the UN fails in court. With the current state of the judiciary, that is not assurred.
May 9, 2005 - 9:08 pm 20. Yehudit:“My only suggestion for Pajamas Media (though I do agree with Nathan) is to have a page or section of only primary sources such as this, appropriately grouped and highlighted, all given a respectful silence, and left to stand or fall on their own”
I agree and would also add: Find out what are the legal rules of evidence for verifying documents in court, and append a checklist of such rules to each document and check off whichever ones said document satisfies. Be transparent even with regard to authenticity. (Take that, Dan Rather!)
This is also a good pre-emptive move, because people are going to try to cast doubt on these documents to furhter whatever agendas they have.
May 9, 2005 - 9:12 pm 21. Morgan:I like my first glimpse into the future, Roger.
Jeez, what would be excessively cynical?
Charlie, you crack me up, as usual.
I’m not sure I agree with suggestions that “Pajamas Media” has to go. At first, it’s an amusing dig, later, it’s an all-too-obvious dig, but even later than that it’ll be just a name with an interesting history. I say keep it.
I second Yehudit’s idea.
May 9, 2005 - 10:11 pm 22. Tim Worstall:Iíll admit that memory is a bit fuzzy at this distance but why did Marc Rich get a pardon and various fall guys for the Clintons not?
Would it be excessively cynical to note that the fall guys did not have as much money with which to make donations as the ex-Mrs. Marc Rich?
May 10, 2005 - 12:51 am 23. Charlie (Colorado):IÔøΩll admit that memory is a bit fuzzy at this distance but why did Marc Rich get a pardon and various fall guys for the Clintons not?
Would it be excessively cynical to note that the fall guys did not have as much money with which to make donations as the ex-Mrs. Marc Rich?
Apparently not.
May 10, 2005 - 7:23 am 24. Ron:Roger,
Could never figure out how to send you a “Word” document so finally did a work around. Here is some very prominent people who think that the “Kyoto Protocols” that have been pushed by Mr. Maurice Strong, Kofi Annan’s right hand man until just lately is base of bogus science. Canada just signed on the dotted line for this ‘Protocol’ and the cost overrun is already over $5 Billion Dollars and that was just the first revision, the first month. So here it is, or take a look at http://acepilots.com/unscam/ could be a big one. These are the experts in the field, more names to follow.
Some of the many climate experts who disagree with the science at the heart of
greenhouse gas restriction treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol
Dr. Tim Patterson Professor – Department of Earth Sciences (Paleoclimatology)
Carleton University, Ottawa
Dr. Ian Clark
Professor, Isotope Hydrogeology and Paleoclimatology, Department of Earth Sciences (arctic specialist), University of Ottawa
Dr. Tim Ball Environmental Consultant – 28 years climatology Professor University of Winnipeg
Dr. Madhav Khandekar Environmental Consultant (extreme weather events)
25 years with Environment Canada in Meteorology
Dr. Tad Murty Climate researcher, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba., Editor – “Natural Hazards”. Previously Senior Research Scientist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Former Director of the National Tidal Facility of Australia
Dr. Fred Michel Professor – Department of Earth Sciences (Permafrost specialty)
Carleton University, Ottawa
Dr. Sallie Baliunas Astrophysicist – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Dr. Paul Copper, FRSC Professor – Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury
Dr. Vincent Gray Expert reviewer for the IPCC climate reports and author of “The Greenhouse Delusion; a Critique of ‘Climate Change 2001′”, Wellington, New Zeeland
David Nowell Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Canadian member and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa
Dr. Roy W. Spencer Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center of the University of Alabama in Huntsville
Dr. James O’Brien Robert 0. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Meteorology and Oceanography; Director, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
William Kininmonth Managing Director, Australasian Climate Research, Kew, Australia
Paavo Siitam Agronomist (soil chemistry, fertility and microbiology), Colborne, Ontario
Dr. Ian Plimer Professor/Chair, Department of Geology, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Gary D. Sharp Scientific Director, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, CA
Dr. Kenneth Green Chief Scientist, Fraser Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia
Dr. Paal Brekke Solar physicist, European Space Agency, Norway
Dr. John Christy Director, Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama
Dr. Chris Essex Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Roger Peilke Professor and Colorado State Climatologist; Current President of the American Association of State Climatologists
Dr. William M. Gray Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
Dr. Howard C. Hayden Emeritus Professor of Physics – University of Connecticut;
Dr. Lee C. Gerhard Principal Geologist, Kansas Geological Survey; Adjunct Professor, Colorado School of Mines; Noted author and geological expert on climate history.
Dr. Fred Singer President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project, Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University, Professor Emeritus of environmental science at University of Virginia.
Dr. Pat Michaels Research Professor, Dept of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Dr. Willie Soon Astrophysicist – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
May 10, 2005 - 8:01 am 25. Rick Ballard:If we consider the Mouselli docs as one thread in a large tapestry that encompasses UNSCAM/OFF – who in Pajama Media is charged with the task of weaving? Who is going to construct the narrative framework to make the depth and breadth of this scandal understandable to the public?
You can’t really complain that old media isn’t doing its job when it is an active participant in the scandal. The Sulzbergers and the Grahams are charter members in the Billionaire Boys Club – a nice and tidy group who firmly believe that a New World Order that dispenses with the messy democratic process while continuing to fill their coffers is just the ticket for the future. When the Tides Foundation funds Indymedia and SBL Ltd. purchases the DNC while funding the rabble rousing Kossacks, what institution is left to stand for liberty and free choice?
George Soros, Marc Rich, Maurice Stong Paul Demarais, Patrick Maugein, Paul Martin, Jean Chretien, Jacques Chirac, Kofi Annan, Bernard Schroeder, Teresa Heinz (and her front man), Al Gore and a few hundred others form an affinity group with a common interest. It’s a shame that the interest is in fitting us with serf’s collars. It’s also a shame that the UN has become the tyrants bootmaker under their tutelage.
Hurry up, Roger.
May 10, 2005 - 10:15 am 26. Michael B:The tell-tale contrast: legal paths taken vs. legal paths avoided.
An intriguing legal initiative by Volcker, to help block an investigation. By contrast, what legal initiatives has he undertaken – for example in Benon Sevan’s Cyprus – to ensure Sevan complies with as much documentation as is feasible?
May 10, 2005 - 1:43 pm