It will therefore be contrary to the public interest to grant a license.

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Third, there's no accountability--no House of Lords Select Committee, U.S. Government Accountability Office or parliamentary oversight (recall the Iraq oil-for-food debacle and its cover-up at the UN), and no electorate to kick the UN reprobates out when they act contrary to the public interest.

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He wrote: "Not all payments to public officials for information are regarded, in practice, or in law, as contrary to the 1906 Prevention of Corruption Act, especially now that Article 10 of the Human Rights Act requires the public interest of disclosure to be taken into account, " he wrote.

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