NEWS FLASH!!! If O'Neil was known to be #1 such a disloyal character; and #2 on his way out the door because Bush was going ot get rid of him in Dec 2002---4 months before the Iraq war BTW, why would anyone assume that PO'N would be told anything hush hush??
To get an angle for this book they really had to reverse engineer what they could say negative about Bush--due to the fact that he was history 4 months b4 the war.
Reverse engineering bump. Paul O'Neill will do very well under a supposed Clark / Clinton administration. He perhaps sees himself as an honored elder statesman in the mold of John Dean?