A worldwide disgrace

Chicago Tribune:

Around this time last year, U.N. leaders decided that the best way to cut rampant corruption in its ranks was to aggressively … stop looking for it.

They yanked funding for a special anti-corruption task force that the U.N. created in 2006 after the infamous oil-for-food scandal. They promised that they were just consolidating the task force into an existing U.N. division, not killing its investigations.

Move along, folks! Nothing to see here!

But we suspected the U.N. task force had been too successful, that it had mightily embarrassed U.N. leaders and member countries.

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