Christopher Shays: “Our Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations of the Committee on Government…”

“Our Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform is doing that same investigation. We are working together. We are comparing notes. We are trying not to be duplicative but trying to make sure that we are able to pierce the veil of what is truly the most outrageous scandal, certainly world scandal, that anyone to date has ever uncovered. This again is a $5.7 billion smuggling ring and a 4.4 oil surcharge and kickbacks on the sale of oil and the purchase of commodities that were overpaid for and then kickbacks were provided to Saddam. What is really outrageous about this whole horrific exercise is that the U.N. was in charge to guarantee that it would be run properly, the U.N. comprised of member States like France and Germany and Russia and China, as well as the United States and Great Britain.”