The U.N. Answers to a Higher Power

A Norwegian group just reported that their efforts to audit several U.N. agencies failed because the U.N. refused to open their books.

According to the consultants who prepared the two-volume draft study on behalf of the Norwegian development agency known as NORAD, the refusal meant that the agencies, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNICEF, failed “grossly” to live up to the “credo of adherence to transparency” that both agencies claim to follow in their work.

Now the story has little depth so far and maybe the Norwegians were on a fishing expedition--no pun intended-- and had no right to the information but these agencies who pretend to be our agents certainly behave strangely. Unless, of course, they see themselves as "special."