Posted on 02/06/2004 10:06:50 PM PST by Destro
Get Your Bush Docs Here!
Ron Suskind posts the evidence online.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004, at 8:55 AM PT
The various revelations in Ron Suskind's book The Price of Loyalty are based largely on a trove of 19,000 documents that former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill gave him. Some have criticized Suskind for striking a Faustian bargain in which he accepted at face value O'Neill's often comically outsized self-regard in exchange for the information O'Neill was in a position to provide about the inner workings of the Bush White House (which might be summed up by the formula, "Crude Political Calculation + Discipline = Success"). But whatever his personal failings and shortcomings as Treasury secretary (some of them previously documented in Chatterbox's "O'Neill Death Watch"), O'Neill is a smart and principled man whose blunt storytelling, supplemented by Suskind's independent reporting, provides what is by far the most vivid and valuable accounting of this administration. And unlike the typical White House memoirist, O'Neill made sure the public would have the documents to back up his description of what he saw.
Suskind has now begun the process of putting those documents online. Today he has posted 20 documents touching on some of his book's more striking revelations. He plans to release roughly the same number of documents on a weekly basis for some time to come. Suskind says that this trove—a sort of "The Smoking Gun" for policy wonks—will eventually include many newsworthy documents that, due to constraints of time and narrative, he failed to use in his 328-page book. As with these initial 20 documents, they will cover all aspects of government policy, not just economic matters.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.msn.com ...
Ron Suskind can be reached by email at info@ronsuskind.com. Send mail to:
Ron Suskind
PO Box 42727
Washington, DC 20015-2727
But according to Destro's own bio, he is a terrorist.
Consult his Secondary Military Specialty.
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