Get Your Bush Docs Here -- Ron Suskind posts the evidence online

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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.

[UpInArms]

1. kick

:kick:

great collection of documents - http://thepriceofloyalty.ronsuskind.com/thebushfiles/archives/000064.html

gives a great view of how they are manipulating the debt during election periods

[ncrainbowgrrl]

2. kick

Wow. Thanks!

[tlcandie]

3. I can't get this to copy/paste, but what the hell is this?

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Money Laundering - Continued support for the Money Laundering jointly implemented between Treasury and Justice?!?!
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[UpInArms]

5. which document were you looking at?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Some are .gifs

Copy the url to the image.

[T Bone]

4. Mitch Daniels: "Hope this presentation is MORE to your liking." wtf?

check this one out from 2-20-01

http://thepriceofloyalty.ronsuskind.com/thebushfiles/archives/000053.html

A pie-in-the-sky budget scenario and surplus projection for 2007 from Mitch Daniels written in 2001. It is prefaced by a HANDWRITTEN note from George's man Mitch that says: "Hope this presentation in more to your liking. Regards."

So it was obviously a do-over to make a wild-ass budget surplus prediction for 2007, where Mitch even has the biscuits to add that the government could have such an enormous surplus that it would be forced to buy up private assets ?

This shows it has been SOP for this admin to force their underlings to "cook" up wild-assed scenarios. Nothing but a propaganda machine on all fronts.

What's sad is this charlatan and gopher for w*, Daniels, is now running for governor of Indiana on his Washington record.

whooohee.

[enough]

6. GREAT site!

It's amazing to actually see the documents, even ones you've heard about before. There's something about seeing them in black and white that makes it seem REAL.

There's Christine Whitman trying to get Stupid to wake up and realize that global warming matters.

There's the agenda for the meeting on Jan. 1, 2001 that includes "Political-Military Plan for post-Saddam Iraq Crisis."

etc. etc. etc.

Suskind is doing a real service to the country with this. It's also very well organized so you can find your way around, and the documents have context. They're grouped in 4 categories: Economy, Environment, Foreign Policy, National Security.

This is the link to the home page for the documents:
http://thepriceofloyalty.ronsuskind.com/thebushfiles/

[Moderator]

8. Not LBN... locking

The rules for posting in the Latest Breaking News Forum require that news items be no older than 12 hours at the time of posting.

This article was published on Thursday, February 5.

Please feel free to begin a new discussion of the Suskind documents in the General Discussion Forum.

Thanks!

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