The United States Congress is demanding the right to hear from two investigators who quit the United Nations inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal because they felt that it was too soft on Kofi Annan.
Norm Coleman, a Republican from Minnesota who chairs the Senate Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations, has ordered his staff to subpoena Robert Parton and Miranda Duncan to testify.
The two Americans resigned from the UN inquiry last month after the panel, led by Paul Volcker, was said to have rejected two drafts that they had written that were highly critical of Mr Annan, the UN Secretary-General.
Mr Volcker, a former head of the US Federal Reserve, has telephoned the chairmen of three congressional committees investigating the scandal in an effort to prevent