This is part two of a two-part series covering the fallout from U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program in Iraq. For more on this story, read part one: "Kofi and the Scandal Pimps."
Despite the right's feverish attempts to portray the United Nations as a scandal-plagued body of incompetents, independent investigations have found no endemic corruption in the institution.
So you don't have to be an apologist for the U.N. to debunk the usual claims. There were isolated instances of corruption in the program, including one involving a senior U.N. official in the Secretariat in New York. There were also instances in which the U.N. failed to use "best practices" in acquisitions, bookkeeping and program management.
