http://thekomisarscoop.com Reports & Analysis by Investigative Journalist Lucy Komisar Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:39:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/10/french-finance-minister-not-sufficiently-aware-of-frigates-case/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/10/french-finance-minister-not-sufficiently-aware-of-frigates-case/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:26:10 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/10/23/french-finance-minister-not-sufficiently-aware-of-frigates-case/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/10/french-finance-minister-not-sufficiently-aware-of-frigates-case/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/09/a-frenchman-acting-on-principle/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/09/a-frenchman-acting-on-principle/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:18:20 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/09/29/a-frenchman-acting-on-principle/ French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, famous as the founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (actually he was one of 12 doctor and journalist founders), spoke at the Council on Tuesday. In his introduction Felix Rohatyn, the prominent investment banker, US ambassador to France in 1997-2000 and now an advisor to the chairman of Lehman Brothers, said, “There are very few people who act according to their principles. Bernard Kouchner acts on his principles, and that’s a very rare virtue, especially in a politician.” I was hopeful that Minister Kouchner, a Socialist who has joined a conservative government, would display these principles in his answer to my question about a corruption scandal that could be the French Watergate. However, the minister displayed the not-so-rare political attribute of solidarity with high-level officials who want to suppress evidence of corruption. ]]> http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/09/a-frenchman-acting-on-principle/feed/ 1 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/04/osama-y-saddam-parientes-incomodos-de-bush/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/04/osama-y-saddam-parientes-incomodos-de-bush/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:29:25 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/04/04/osama-y-saddam-parientes-incomodos-de-bush/ Los legisladores de Estados Unidos que investigan la veracidad de los argumentos del presidente George W. Bush para invadir Iraq deberían analizar una de sus afirmaciones más resonantes: la del vínculo entre Saddam Hussein y Osama bin Laden. Los críticos de Bush desacreditaron tal aseveración, a la que calificaron de invención. Estaban equivocados. El vínculo existía, pero no era el que el presidente le vendió al público. El punto de contacto entre el hoy ejecutado dictador de Iraq y el hoy prófugo líder terrorista era el Banco de Crédito y Comercio Internacional (BCCI), cuyas vinculaciones atravesaban toda Arabia Saudita y llegaban hasta el propio presidente Bush y su padre, el ex mandatario George Bush (1989-1993). ]]> http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/04/osama-y-saddam-parientes-incomodos-de-bush/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/11/cooking-the-insurance-books-a-decade-of-lax-regulation-lays-groundwork-for-scandal/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/11/cooking-the-insurance-books-a-decade-of-lax-regulation-lays-groundwork-for-scandal/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2004 03:38:25 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=46 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/11/cooking-the-insurance-books-a-decade-of-lax-regulation-lays-groundwork-for-scandal/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/06/saddam%e2%80%99s-secret-money-laundering-trail/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/06/saddam%e2%80%99s-secret-money-laundering-trail/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:04:26 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=1583 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/06/saddam%e2%80%99s-secret-money-laundering-trail/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/05/rumsfeld-queried-on-offshore-banking-reform/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/05/rumsfeld-queried-on-offshore-banking-reform/#comments Tue, 27 May 2003 20:25:46 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=25 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/05/rumsfeld-queried-on-offshore-banking-reform/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/02/are-criminals-in-russia-sending-missiles-to-iraq/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/02/are-criminals-in-russia-sending-missiles-to-iraq/#comments Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:01:49 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=72 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/02/are-criminals-in-russia-sending-missiles-to-iraq/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2002/09/police-spoke-to-us-terror-suspect/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2002/09/police-spoke-to-us-terror-suspect/#comments Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:54:59 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=56 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2002/09/police-spoke-to-us-terror-suspect/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2002/09/dealing-with-dictators-bell-helicopters-skirted-un-embargo-to-sell-to-serbia/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2002/09/dealing-with-dictators-bell-helicopters-skirted-un-embargo-to-sell-to-serbia/#comments Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:51:04 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=48 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2002/09/dealing-with-dictators-bell-helicopters-skirted-un-embargo-to-sell-to-serbia/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2002/08/serbias-deadly-choppers-us-firm-sold-parts-to-milosevic/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2002/08/serbias-deadly-choppers-us-firm-sold-parts-to-milosevic/#comments Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:44:32 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=49 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2002/08/serbias-deadly-choppers-us-firm-sold-parts-to-milosevic/feed/ 0