[Mb-civic] Hands Off Oil Probe at U.N.

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HANDS OFF OIL PROBE AT UN

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Hands Off Oil Probe at U.N. 
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November 29 2004

Bashing the United Nations is one of Capitol Hill's favorite sports. Playing it doesn't carry any political cost, and looking and sounding tough with "foreign bureaucrats" is often profitable for American politicians. Earlier this month, two high-ranking members of the Senate, Democrat Carl Levin and Republican Norm Coleman, gang-tackled Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a letter. Annan was accused of blocking the release of internal audits and other documents on the controversial oil-for-food program in Iraq that the U.N. ran from 1996 to 2003. 

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