Who is Duelfer Protecting?

[materia3]

The French have already outted Halliburton (Where was Cheney when this program started, what, in 1995?) as one of the companies on Duelfer's "protected list" of U.S. firms. I am wondering who else was protected by the CIA Report's failure to mention the names of U.S. companies involved in the oil for food fraud scandal? Do any of this forum's overseas members have access to those names which we in America are not being allowed to see? Your governments know who these companies are and are not under any legal obligation not release the details, even of the U.S. interests. Obviously the U.N. also knows who these firms are but I am unable to get details from their public websites on the program. This is a major smoking gun and Americans, in the few weeks left before the election, have a right to this information. Why aren't we getting it? Even Kerry & Co., while highlighting the absence of WMDs part of the report has shied away from even mentioning this section.

In the section reporting alleged corruption in the Oil for Food Program, Duelfer's report includes detailed lists from each six-month period since the program began, including companies, individuals, dates, who was paid surcharges, who allegedly received bribes, etc. The report claims the corruption provided more than $11 billion to the Iraqi regime. The claims, driven by right-wing forces in Congress and the media, is being used to attack the United Nations and particularly Secretary General Kofi Annan (whose son had previously worked for one of the auditing companies involved). In fact, it was the Security Council, not the Secretariat, which had ultimate control over the program. The Council, not the Secretariat, served as the Sanctions Committee, which passed or rejected every contract submitted by Iraq.
In the "oil corruption" section of Duelfer's report, companies and individuals are identified by name -- except for companies from the U.S., identified only as "U.S. company" without a company name. Who is he protecting?

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=6378