UN oil for food scandal and american corps involved- info please....

[TrustingDog]

need a link of a list for some freepers idjits.
yeah, I'm part the idiot for not being able to keep up with all this shit and don't bookmark the thousand things I should.

[Maple]

1. You want the US companies involved?

Among the companies listed that received Iraqi oil were four American companies: Texaco and Chevron, now ChevronTexaco Corp.; Mobil, now Exxon Mobil Corp.; and a third company listed as Phoenix International.

ChevronTexaco and Exxon Mobil have been subpoenaed by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office for a grand jury investigation into the oil-for-food program.

Among the thousands of companies listed as exporting goods to Iraq were a handful of American ones. They included Baker Atlas, an oil service company owned by Baker Hughes Inc.; Cargill Inc.; and Continental Grain, now owned by Cargill.



http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB6IOAJL0E.html

[TrustingDog]

2. thankyou so much.

[TrustingDog]

3. am I reading too much into this paragraph?

The committee has also "run into a little trouble in Baghdad" with the American accounting firm Ernst & Young, which was hired by the Iraqi Board of Supreme Audit to review more than 20,000 files from Saddam's regime related to the oil-for-food program,

spidey senses are tingling.

[Maple]

4. But suddenly.....

Privacy Act, Order Shielded U.S. Names on List

By Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 8, 2004; Page A30

CIA analyst Charles A. Duelfer's report on Iraq's weapons programs included lists of governments, political parties, companies and individuals from at least 44 nations who received vouchers to buy oil -- both legally and otherwise -- from the Iraqi government during Saddam Hussein's reign.

The names on the politically explosive list are French, Russian, Chinese, Canadian and Japanese; if Duelfer had had his way, U.S. companies and individuals would have been included, too.

But he was overruled by CIA lawyers. The report instead lists some voucher recipients only as "U.S. person" and "U.S. company," explaining in a footnote that disclosure was barred by the 1974 Privacy Act and "other applicable law."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16201-2004Oct7.html

[TrustingDog]

5. oiy. follow any story and there's an ugly corporate greed grab liar...

supported by the chimperor and his lawyering up.

was it always this way... probably. Am I growing up to see it the way it's always been? no. It's never ever been this bad all at once.

[Maple]

6. The world has always been this way

unfortunately.