No Laws Broken in O'Neill Book(but 140 embarrassing docs "SENSITIVE")

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-economy-treasury-oneill.html




Probe: No Laws Broken in O'Neill Book(but 140 embarrassing docs "SENSITIVE")
By REUTERS

Published: March 22, 2004


Filed at 1:04 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Treasury Department 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, 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.<SNIP>

[yardwork]

1. It seems to me that they are saying that they would have hidden this info

if they had competently hidden it.

In other words, they acknowledge being secretive and deceitful. They're just poor at hiding the evidence.

And this is their defense? Pathetic.

[papau]

2. yep :-)

incompetently hidden - secretive and deceitful that only works with a lot of help from the US media.

:-)

[izzie]

3. Like Nixon. God didn't he hate for things to get out.

You know people bail out often when they think they will go down with the top guy. Also who wants to take the blame. They all know Bush will end up richer and they will have to hunt for jobs and money. I was shocked so many took a dive for Reagan and I am willing to bet they all went into "think tanks" and high pay jobs waiting to come back with the next Rep.We Dem seem to get rid of these guys but GOP just drags them out and re-do-them.