UN hiring standards

Once again we see that working for the UN means everywhere you turn you're knee deep into some probe for one sort of illegal activity or another (via DJ NewsWire sorry I pulled this one right off the wire and couldn't find a direct link): UNITED NATIONS (AP)--The head of the United Nation's internal watchdog agency, who faces allegations that he traded jobs for personal favors, on Friday launched a bitter counterattack. Dileep Nair, head of the Office of Internal Oversight Services, said he was the victim of a smear campaign after a spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced the U.N. would launch an outside review of allegations that Nair had violated U.N. rules by showing favoritism in his recruitment and promotion of staff. [...] Last month Annan's chief-of-staff, Mark Malloch Brown, sent Nair a letter saying Annan would request an external inquiry in light of an "extended controversy" within the U.N. about the allegations, including claims that an earlier "desk review" had "improperly cleared" Nair of wrongdoing. [...] Nair is facing separate allegations of misconduct. A report released Tuesday by an independent committee probing the now-defunct oil-for-food program in Iraq found that Nair had paid an employee with money from the $64 billion program even though the man's work was not directly related to it. Wow, the UN can't even investigate internal convroversy without sparking more controversy. And why do we trust them in world affairs, again?