Dan Burton: “The United Nations has a very valued State Department employee that has worked over there for a long time named Linda…”

“The United Nations has a very valued State Department employee that has worked over there for a long time named Linda Shenwick, and Ms. Shenwick has brought to the attention of a number of Members of Congress waste, fraud, and abuse at the United Nations. As a result of her giving this information to Congress, she has not only been chastised, she has been removed from her position by the State Department and Madeleine Albright. We have written to Madeleine Albright about this and have not received a response. We have also written to the Inspector General of the State Department, and they have said that they do not feel that they are inclined to want to investigate this. I would just like to say that we have had a number of whistleblowers before my committee, Mr. Chairman, and we have found that there are real repressive actions being taken against these whistleblowers to try to keep them from talking to the Congress of the United States about waste, fraud, and abuse in various agencies of government.”