“Most of the heavy-lifting, the interviewing of witnesses, has been conducted by three attorneys – Michael Cornacchia, Robert Parton and Miranda Duncan. All three are Americans and relatively unknown —

Cornacchia is the lead investigator, though Parton is apparently the one doing the more serious questioning. Parton is not a happy camper, however, and seems to have threatened to resign a few weeks ago because the committee was not pursuing leads they thought went outside their purview. To have had an investigator quit at that point would have created a mini-scandal of its own and a compromise was worked out to keep him. This could account for some of the equivocal language in the report.”

Who determines purview? Looks like Reid Morden from the investigation’s own website:

http://www.iic-offp.org/story15june04.htm

“STAFF

Mr. Reid Morden has been appointed Executive Director responsible for the overall direction and coordination of the Inquiry staff, including primary responsibilities for liaison with governments.

Mr. Morden, capping a career in the Canadian Foreign Service, was Deputy Foreign Minister in the mid-1990ís. Earlier he served four years as Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. On leaving Foreign Affairs Mr. Morden became President and CEO of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., Canadaís national nuclear company. Subsequently, he was Managing Director of the Canadian arm of Kroll Associates, the international investigation firm, and later became Chairman of KPMG Corporate Intelligence Inc.”

Many other names at the page worth exploring.

“”Mr. Laurent Kasper-Ansermet has been appointed Chief Investigation Officer, Europe, and will be concentrating particularly on European and other areas outside North America from a small Paris office.”"

Funny. UN mentions the Paris office is “small.”

The scope of the investigation is managed by Reid Morden.

So this may be the nexus. What is outside the “purview”? I suggest Morden wants to limit the investigation to certain UN officials and keep Paribas, Desmarais, etc. clean.

The key is finding out what’s inside the purview and not.

Are we goiing to get Bolton or not? And if we do what will that mean to future investigations.