UN
Security's Drennan Also “Buried”
Report on Somalia,
& Bokova, As
UN Condemns Leak to ICP
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS,
May 18 – After Inner City
Press exclusively reported
that UN Department of Safety
and Security's top officer
Peter Drennan ordered that a
security report on UNESCO
chief Irina Bokova be “buried”
last year due to the personal
political implications for
Drennan if Bokova instead of
Antonio Guterres became UN
Secretary General, the UN's
response was to attack the
leak. Click here.
The failure to respond to the
substance is indicative of why
today's UN is failing - as is
a May 18 raid on Inner City
Press' remainign workspace in
the UN, see below. Now facing
UN search and seizure Inner
City Press publishes more, here
and below: that the UN
Board of Inquiry (BOI) report
into the killing of its own
staff in Garowe, Somalia was
also buried, and the informed
opinion that "former SG, Ban
ki Moon, was at the top of the
accountability framework; and
will no longer be held to
account for decisions at that
time. So, hopefully, the
results of the BOI will be
made public." So what will
"new" Secretary General
Antonio Guterres do? His
holdover spokesman, who passed
without comment the windowless
focus booth he has confined
the Press to, did not seek to
distinguish any part of these
leaks- instead, he only sought
to evict and still restrict
Inner City Press, see
Paragraphs 9-10, here.
Why did the UN, as if by
coincidence, search Inner City
Press' lone remaining
workspace on May 18? The only
solution is restoration to the
stolen S-303. Also cc-ed here
is Michael "Mick" Brown,
supervisor of Deputy McNulty
who evicted and broken Inner
City Press' computer, and who
excused surveillance of Inner
City Press and UNCA assaults
on it. Inner City Press asked
Guterres' holdover spokesman
Stephane Dujarric about it,
and hours later he emailed all
correspondents an attack on
"leaks" - "In response to a
question asked at the noon
briefing about a DSS
assessment concerning Irina
Bokova, the Spokesman has the
following to say: The
allegation that security
information was 'buried' is
strongly denied. The relevant
information has been provided
to Ms Bokova, the Director
General of UNESCO, in the
appropriate manner. In
addition the substance of the
report was prepared in
conjunction with the UNESCO
security staff and as a result
UNESCO security staff, who are
responsible for the safety and
security of Ms Bokova and
UNESCO, were fully aware of
the report's contents. The
Department is deeply concerned
about the leaking to the media
of confidential information
concerning matters of
security. The leaking of
confidential security
information is irresponsible
and may well create additional
security risks to the UN."
Whistleblowers - different
whistleblowers - within the
Department of Safety and
Security say that the claimed
concern about Bokova is a
pretext. What has roiled
feathers in DSS is the
assertion that Under Secretary
General Drennan moved to bury
the report for his personal
political reasons in case
Bokova became Secretary
General. We'll have more on
this.
Fearing
retaliation, the UN's Kenneth
Rosario two months ago wrote
to Drennan to formally notify
him of the charge of burying
the security report, citing
the deadly consequence of such
UN burying in the cases of the
Canal Hotel in Baghdad and
later in Algiers. Rosario
noted that even in those
cases, no one alleged that the
reports were suppressed by a
head of Department like
Drennan.
The documents
cited specific and credible
death threats against Bokova,
the UN system's top ranking
official in France, and the
letter bomb attack on the
International Monetary Fund /
World Bank office, ascribing
it to the Greek anarchist
group Conspiracy of Fire Cells
or SPF.
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Rosario's fear of
retaliation was and is
well-founded: for example, the
UN fired Swedish official
Anders Kompass after he blew
the whistle on peacekeepers'
sexual abuse of children in
the Central African Republic.
More recently Francis Gurry of
the UN's World Intellectual
Property Organization has been
accused of retaliation; here
is Inner City Press' story on
WIPO's North Korea business,
including a response from US
Ambassador Nikki Haley to
Inner City Press' May 16
question on the matter. UN DSS
itself was involved in the no
due process eviction of
Inner City Press and targeting
of it since to hinder
its investigative reporting in
the UN. Audio
here. But the reporting
will continue: watch this
site.
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