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On the recordNovember 29, 2004
I don't know how you can have this level of mismanagement at the U.N., this big of a scandal, and not say to the man at the top that you had nothing to do with it.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Flake criticizes Kofi Annan's leadership amid the U.N. scandal regarding the oil for food program.

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