BBC and Maurice Strong

Trust the BBC to be careless of facts when it suits them. In their story about Canadian Maurice Strong employing his stepdaughter in his U.N. office in violation of U.N. policies, they understate the size of the Oil-for-food program by about, oh, $64 billion.

There are several inquiries under way into the oil-for-food scandal, under which UN sanctions on Iraq were flouted and millions of dollars apparently diverted.

But this fact is REALLY, REALLY worrisome: "Mr Strong, who was closely involved with the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme..." as -- get this -- the Globe and Mail informs us -- "UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's envoy for North Korea."