Resources
History and Background
- Oil-for-Food: A Brief History
- Oil-for-Food: Timeline
- Oil-for-Food: By the Numbers
- Oil-for-Food: FAQ
- Oil-for-Food v. Oil Smuggling
- Helping the Iraqi People
- Allegations Against the Program
- Oil-for-Food: Summary Presentation (pdf)
- Oil-for-Food: The Facts Behind the Volcker Commission's Interim Report, by Joy Gordon, UNA-USA Policy Brief (pdf)
- Oversight of Funds by the Coalition Provisional Authority
- A Wiser Peace: An Action Strategy for a Post-Conflict Iraq, Center for Strategic and International Studies (pdf)
Volcker Independent Inquiry Committee
- About the Committee
- Interim Report Summary, February 2005
- Interim Full Report (pdf), February 2005
- Illicit Income Comparison (pdf)
- Definitive Report Summary, September 2005
Related Reports
- Congress Investigates CPA's Oversight of OFF Successor, the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI)
- Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Program by the Iraqi Regime
- UN Reform Discussion Addresses Findings of Oil-for-Food Investigations
Congressional Critics
Many committees and members of Congress have been looking into the allegations of problems with the Oil-for-Food Program. This section is intended to make sure these congressional actions further the quest for accurate and fair information on OFFP. Accordingly, this section will feature select statements, reports and other congressional material that contain factual errors or misleading comments, and provide accurate responses and context to help keep the public record accurate and fair.
- House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Hearing, The United Nations Oil-for-Food Program: Saddam Hussein’s Use of Oil Allocations to Undermine Sanctions and the United Nations Security Council, 109th Cong., 1st sess., 16 May 2005
- 109th Congress, S. Res. 291, H. Res. 1092 ("United Nations Oil-for-Food Accountability Act of 2005")
- Senator Norm Coleman
- 108th Congress, H. Res. 869
Media Fact Check
There has been widespread media coverage of the alleged problems with the Oil-for-Food Program. In order to ensure an accurate and fair debate in the media, this section features stories, columns, interviews and editorials that have factual errors and/or misleading statements, and provides counterpoints to them. If you are particularly interested in media coverage of OFFP, you may also wish to review the work of other organizations including Media Matters for America and FAIR who are providing similar media analyses.
- FOX's Jonathan Hunt
- Judith Miller
- FOX News: Media Matters Fact Check
- FOX News: Correspondence between the UN and FOX
- Nile Gardiner
- Claudia Rosett
- William Safire
- US News & World Report
- Chris Wallace
Outside Links
- Office of the Iraq Program, Oil-for-Food
- Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Oil-for-Food Programme
- The United Nations
- The United Nations News Centre
- The United Nations Foundation
- UN Dispatch: Posts on the UN (Blog)
- UN Wire: A daily email briefing covering the United Nations and the world
- Center for American Progress: Ten Things Progressives Should Know About the Oil-for-Food Scandal
- Fourth Freedom Forum

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