Safire on UNSCAM
How fares the multination cover-up of the richest rip-off in world history?

US News has an editorial about it.

Update: Roger has more about it,

Meanwhile, something of true significance--the internal investigation of the 'UNSCUM' Scandal aka the UN Iraq Oil-for-Food Program--is in jeopardy. (Why is this one more important? Simple. It is about the allegation of actual crimes on a grand scale committed under the name of our most important international organization. It's not about alleged blunders and screw ups that are subject to more interpretations than the Babylonian Talmud.) I had been heartened when I learned that the respected Paul Volcker had been appointed to head the UN commission looking into this scandal. So it with some dismay I read in a Wall Street Journal editorial this morning that he may not get a full Security Council backing for his work

It's the crime, it's the cover-up. It's going to keep happening, for as long as the dead tree press and others ignore it.