Two Oil-for-Food Investigators Resign
From Times Wire Reports
Two senior investigators in the probe of the Iraq oil-for-food program have resigned because they believed a report that cleared U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan of meddling in the operation was too soft on him, a panel member said.
The two were identified as Robert Parton and Miranda Duncan.
The committee “told the story” that Parton and Duncan presented, “but we made different conclusions than they would have,” said Mark Pieth, a leader of the inquiry committee.
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