More funny business at the U.N. There seems to be an incredible collective memory loss among U.N. officials about who approved the auction of the organization's rare stamp archive. Who else is on the case but Claudia Rosett?
It would be comical if it weren't so pathetic. U.N. officials don't follow their own guidelines and procedures for authorization to sell the archive, and then the few people who have any memory at all of what happened say they sold it to raise some "seed money" for the U.N. Postal Administration, which loses millions on its own. Then the buyers turn around and break up the archive and resell it at several times the prices that the U.N. got for it at auction. We're talking only millions here, for an organization that has proven its capacity to squander billions at a time. But it's another symptom of the same disease of unaccountability.
Posted by dan at April 27, 2006 11:14 PM