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Claudia Rosett's Testimony of April 21st before the
House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and
International Relations.

Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Committtee, I thank you for the opportunity to testify here today.

Speaking as a journalist, I would like to tell you
that when I first began asking questions about Oil-for-Food, in 2002,
it was not with the aim of uncovering a scam. I wished simply to
understand what appeared to be a complicated relief effort --
complications which, as we have since learned, served to veil a
multitude of misdeeds... If you want to stop the next Oil-for-Food, the
deal you have to offer is U.N.-funding-for-Transparency. At the very
least, what this scandal should suggest to American tax-payers is that
before sending any more funds to the U.N.-home of privilege and
secrecy-we need a new U.N. policy, of opening the books. 

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