Okay, We've Seen Enough

Many months ago, when many of us accused the United Nations of attempting a coverup and of lacking the honesty to investigate itself, Kofi Annan and Paul Volcker demanded that we wait and see.

Well, we've waited and we've seen. We were right all along.

"A former senior investigator from the independent probe into allegations of corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program confirmed Saturday that he had resigned to protest a report clearing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan of meddling in the operation.

In his first public comments since leaving the investigation, Robert Parton, one of two investigators who resigned from the Independent Inquiry Committee led by former Fed chief Paul Volcker, criticized his former employer Saturday for misrepresenting the grounds of his resignation.

Parton, who was in charge of investigating Annan, confirmed a report by The Associated Press earlier this week that he and another investigator had resigned to protest recent findings by the committee that cleared the secretary general of meddling in the $64 billion program.

"Contrary to recent published reports, I resigned my position as Senior Investigative Counsel for the IIC not because my work was complete but on principle," Parton said Saturday in a statement e-mailed to AP."