Treasury Watchdog Clears O'Neill in Probe

cjbuchanan

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Mon Mar-22-04 01:49 PM
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Treasury Watchdog Clears O'Neill in Probe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Treasury Department (news - web sites) watchdog agency on Monday cleared former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill of wrongdoing in a probe of how he acquired sensitive documents from his tenure, which were later used in a book critical of the Bush White House.

"The Principal Deputy Chief for Public Integrity, Department of Justice (news - web sites), was consulted regarding this investigation and determined that no criminal statutes were violated," said a synopsis of Treasury's Inspector General report, obtained by Reuters under federal freedom of information laws.

But the report also said about 140 documents with "national security" or "sensitive but unclassified" information had been given to O'Neill. Had they been properly marked as "classified," they would have been withheld, the report said.

more at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040322/pl_nm/economy_treasury_oneill_dc

so Paul O'Neill did not break the law. I wonder if Bush & Co. will apologize?

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mbperrin

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Mon Mar-22-04 01:51 PM
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1. I'm SURE the *Bush folks will cheerfully apologize...

right?

After all, they are SUCH good people that they would be happy to be wrong if the truth came out, yeah?

<gotta stop snorting Oxy so early in the day!>

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tom_paine

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Mon Mar-22-04 02:11 PM
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2. Of course he was...the charade of "investigation" was meant to scare him

Edited on Mon Mar-22-04 02:40 PM by tom_paine

And it worked.

The Bush Occupiers of Free America don't like it. They don't like democracy and they very much don't like freedom (for Filthy Little Nobodies, that is).

And the Busheviks NEVER investigate their friends. If you are an enemy, like O'Neill, who needs scaring, then a Sham Investigation is just the ticket!

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Robb

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Mon Mar-22-04 02:28 PM
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3. Interesting Reuters had to use the FOIA to get it

Timing, timing. :)

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keithyboy

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Mon Mar-22-04 02:36 PM
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4. I want to see this story "hyped" by the RW-media.

It should be all over the front page of newsprint.

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0007

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Mon Mar-22-04 02:46 PM
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5. Will junior apologize?

Edited on Mon Mar-22-04 02:51 PM by 0007

Is condoleezza beautiful?

The answer is in this photo

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proud patriot

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Mon Mar-22-04 03:05 PM
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6. yay !

:bounce: of course they did ..All repukes
have are a mountain of lies and false accusations .

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havocmom

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Mon Mar-22-04 03:48 PM
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7. O'Neill? No, the disgruntled employee of the month is Clark

O'Neill? No, we never attacked him. Clark, now there's somebody who is out to get us...</sarasm>

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