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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...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has been cleared of wrongdoing in the use of classified documents as source material for a book that portrayed President Bush in an unflattering light, Treasury Department sources told CNN on Friday.</p>

<p>Documents given to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill (search) for a book contained classified information, according to a letter his successor John Snow (search) sent to Congress on Friday.</p> <p>The letter, obtained by The Associated Press, said that a preliminary investigation conducted by the Treasury Department's inspector general found that sensitive information was released in the documents given to O'Neill when he left the department.</p>

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O'Neill's Backlash Against Bush Was Predictable by Howard Phillips Posted Feb 4, 2004 It isn't always nice to say "I told you so," but sometimes it is necessary. Paul O'Neill's blast at the Bush Administration, subsequent to his firing by Dick Cheney, was entirely predictable. He had previously opposed a President who promoted him -- Richard Nixon. As I wrote in December, 2000, Paul O'Neill was an LBJ "Great Society" Democrat, who, in 1973, as Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), strongly resisted the desire of President Richard Nixon to close down LBJ's "Great Society."...

9/11 widow Ellen Mariani(Derry, N.H.) says George W. Bush is a gangster. We talk to her and her lawyer Philip J. Berg: Ellen Mariani last saw her husband Louis Neil early on the morning of September 11, 2001, at Logan Airport, where they were taking different flights to Los Angeles for a daughter’s wedding. He hadn’t gotten his tickets until the last minute, and couldn’t get on her flight, but there were seats open on Flight 175. Neil Mariani died when that plane crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, and after rejecting a settlement offer of...

PAUL O'NEILL WON'T GO AWAY Fired former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is in the news again. He now says that he stands by his criticism of the inner workings of the Bush administration, but regrets his "vivid language" is detracting from serious issues. He says that he hopes "this book will cause young people to aspire to improve our political process." Interesting. Not sure that that has to do with calling the President of the United States "a blind man in a room full of deaf people," but why sweat the small stuff. And speaking of President Bush, he has...

<p>Former Gov. Christie Whitman was cut out of the decision-making process when President Bush bluntly rejected her efforts as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency director to reach a compromise that would allow the United States to be part of the Global Warming Treaty.</p>

Ex-Treasury Chief O'Neill Rejects Price Of Loyalty Comments About Bush War Hopefully Motivates Other Whistleblowers POSTED: 6:48 p.m. EST January 14, 2004 UPDATED: 6:49 p.m. EST January 14, 2004 WASHINGTON -- "I can't imagine I would be attacked for telling the truth." That statement came from former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill during an interview with CBS-TV'S "60 Minutes." He has learned differently since then. O'Neill caused a big stir with his remarkably candid new book, "The Price of Loyalty," about his Cabinet tenure as President Bush's man at the Treasury Department. In the book written by journalist Ron Suskind, O'Neill...

On CNN, the Carnegie Institute for Peace had a program regarding the Iraq situation. Was the invasion necessary? The institute, with a thorough investigation, found no compelling reason to invade - no WMD, no biological weapons, no long-range missiles. Now, Paul O'Neill, former U.S. treasurer under Bush, confirmed these allegations in his newly published book. Bush and his cronies had planned to invade Iraq from the first days he stumbled into office. We all know that Saddam is a no-good SOB, but we should not have invaded. So far, the cost has been terrible. Almost 500 U.S. soldiers have died...

NEW YORK, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- As an Arkansas businessman, Wesley Clark lobbied Vice President Dick Cheney, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, aides to FBI Director Robert Mueller and his former chief deputy commander in Europe on behalf of a company eager to get post-9/11 security work, Newsweek reports in the current issue. The aim: to get a contract for Acxiom, a Little Rock firm whose "data mining" techniques are useful in tracking terrorists. The lobbying -- for which Clark was paid about $400,000 -- must have helped: Acxiom got a contract. Everything was aboveboard and disclosed, says Chris Lehane, who...

Jack Kelly: Dept. of Sour Grapes Paul O'Neill does himself no favors Sunday, January 18, 2004 Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill took a swing at President Bush ... and punched himself in the nose. "The Price of Loyalty," written by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind on the basis of interviews with and documents supplied by O'Neill, made two sensational charges:       Jack Kelly is national security writer for the Post-Gazette and The Blade of Toledo, Ohio (jkelly@post-gazette.com, 412-263-1476).       First, that Bush was detached and disengaged in Cabinet meetings, "a blind man in a...

The Republican president from the Sun Belt is portrayed as an amiable dunce. His lack of curiosity annoys his brainy adviser, who wants the chief executive to join him in wrestling with Big Issues. Eventually the brainiac aide is gone, taking with him a burning desire to get revenge in print. This might sound like the story of Paul O'Neill, ex-Treasury secretary — he was fired by President Bush in December 2002 — who provided the raw, bitter meat for a new book, "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill." O'Neill...

Who's telling the truth, Paul O'Neill or President Bush? It's up to us to decide. When he named him Treasury secretary, President Bush praised O'Neill as a "straight shooter." But now the White House says O'Neill is a big liar. Click here for full article================================================================= O'Neill Bombshell: How Damaging? In a bombshell revelation that has Washington reeling in shock, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News that Bush was no great admirer of Saddam Hussein, with the President even hinting sinisterly the ousted Iraqi leader was a 'bad person.' (O'Neill memo to Bush: Saddam had enough enemies already! He...

<p>O'Neill Says Book Bashing Bush 'Isn't My Book'</p> <p>"The Price of Loyalty" -- which everyone thinks Paul O'Neill wrote but didn't write -- is about how no one in the sealed-off cloisters of the Bush White House would listen to him or take his ideas seriously. In the past week, however, the whole world has been able to discover what was on Mr. O'Neill's mind. The BBC's Portuguese-language edition conveyed Mr. O'Neill's opinion of the President to the people of Brazil: "o presidente era como 'um cego em uma sala cheia de surdos.'" That's the part in which the former Treasury secretary/Alcoa CEO calls Mr. Bush "a blind person in a roomful of deaf people."</p>

<p>Politics can be a rough sport. Paul O'Neill's departure after two years as Treasury secretary was not handled well. His bitterness, some would say, is quite understandable. But bitterness is a bad basis for objectivity, and any of Mr. O'Neill's reported views regarding President Bush and the conduct of economic policy do not comport with my recollection or with the public record. In fact, the president is what he claims to be--a compassionate conservative--and one with a grasp of how the world really works.</p>

DEKALB, Ill. -- Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill recently put forth the accusation that President George W. Bush was out for blood just days after taking office in January 2001. The disgraced O'Neill explained that Bush was set on invading Iraq from the beginning and simply was looking for an opportune time to execute his plans. O'Neill told CBS's "60 Minutes" that "from the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person that needed to go." I don't know why this was suddenly news to O'Neill, seeing that the world's most sought-after dictator had been...

Those listening to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill might think there's no rational hand on the national economic tiller. But fear not. O'Neill's recent attacks on President Bush and the formulation of U.S. economic policy amount to nothing more than a big plate of sour grapes. For two years in the Bush administration, O'Neill never agreed with supply-side tax cuts, the centerpiece of the president's economic policy. He was a static-deficit bean counter, not a growth advocate. Capitol Hill sources say he was ineffectual in negotiations, leading to a weak tax bill in 2001. Instead of immediate tax-rate cuts for...

Omega Letter Christian Intelligence Digest ''The Price of Loyalty'' Commentary on the NewsTuesday, January 13, 2004 - Omega Letter Editor Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill published his own 'tell-all' book in which he accuses the Bush administration of 'plotting the invasion of Iraq' (as the Boston Globe described it) just days after taking office, instead of after the 9/11 attacks. You know, I am truly not an apologist for George Bush. I don't know him personally, and I don't know what he does behind closed doors. I have no particular love for the Bush family, although I admit to...