Treasury to Probe O'Neill Documents (CNBC)

CNBC | 1/12/2004 | CNBC

[goodnesswins]

Well, when you tell people that "you could learn wall street traders jobs in the snap of a finger" (paraphrasing).....you don't make points with them (He allegedly did this, and had to apologize later)

[Frank_Discussion]

That's what I was implying, sir...

[kcvl]

Donald Rumsfeld - warned O’Neill not to do this book.

[CyberAnt]

Exactly .. and they're just waiting for a wounded ego .. like O'Neill .. to exploit.

[Howlin]

You are so right!

[cicero's_son]

This is great news.

O'Neil is a classless a-hole, congenitally incapable of playing a supporting role in any organization.

He typifies everything that has been wrong with American executive culture over the past decade or so--no loyalty, no integrity, just a mountain of ego snowcapped with petulance.

[Howlin]

Is he entitled to have those?

[Timesink]

I'm playing dot to dot and putting on the Alcoa hat as I type. NSC leaks a plenty for a long time. O'Neill gone. No more NSC leakes. Classified docs hit the presses... HMMMMM.

ALCOA CAN'T WAIT!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Sometimes, O'Neill says, they had to float an idea in the press just to scare a reaction out of him.

Please see #52.

[Howlin]

And the media will say that the Bush White House is just trashing O'Neill because he dared to speak the truth.

[mewzilla]

I found a little WP snippet that had Al Kamen talking about Suskind and O'Neill publishing something that would tick off the WH in Jan of '03. Didn't take O'Neill long, did it?

[Rutles4Ever]

What he pulled puts our national security at risk because it puts our diplomacy at risk. The grapes are exceptionally sour in his vineyard, and to try and foment division at a time like this should be nothing short of treasonous.

[boomop1]

A John Dean clone, what a scoundrel.

[Frank_Discussion]

Hm.
Get a rope.

[CyberAnt]

The lawyer on FOX was just saying that the documents are the key .. what they are and whether or not they are considered "classified" or "secret" will be the key.

I heard on FOX that Suskind was saying that one of the packages of documents O'Neill gave him was makred "secret". If that's true .. O'Neill might end up in a world of hurt.

[Howlin]

That is interesting.

I wish they could prove that.

[over3Owithabrain]

And the media will say that the Bush White House is just trashing O'Neill because he dared to speak the truth.

That is the political risk here, much as we want O'Neill's treachery looked into. The libs/media could try to "Nixonize" Bush, making him and his team appear vindictive, with something to hide.

[gov_bean_ counter]

He typifies everything that has been wrong with American executive culture over the past decade or so--no loyalty, no integrity, just a mountain of ego snowcapped with petulance.

Acutually, he is the typical "Gamesman", Michael Macoby described in a book by the same name in the middle '70s.

[conservativecorner]

I pray they fry the little weasel's ass. He's the worst kind of hypocrite!

[mewzilla]

From this link:

January 24, 2003 O'Neill To Speak Out In what "cannot be good news for the White House," former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill will work with Esquire reporter Ron Suskind "on a 15,000- to 20,000-word profile of the outspoken executive and former secretary," the Washington Post's Al Kamen reports. "More than enough space for O'Neill to put out his ideas and 'let them sit there' for people to judge their merit."

Took O'Neill less than a month apparently.