It was neither a whitewash nor did it reveal a smoking gun. The report of the independent committee of inquiry into the UN'S $70 billion oil-for-food programme, published on February 3rd, was what Paul Volcker, its chairman, had said it would be: a hard-hitting but limited interim report focusing on the role of the UN'S secretariat. The full story of the world body's biggest-ever scandal, including the role of its Security Council, must await the committee's final report, due this summer.
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