This man gave me the creeps. His cynicism and horrid story of how he and O'Neill got together, his willingess to use O'Neill (to get at President Bush - more than overt), adhis bravado about it all (BRAGGING about it), just left me cold.
And when he ( Suskind) got to the part of O'Neill getting the Treasury documents Suskind wanted, and spoke of how O'Neill LEFT the 19,000 whatever (pages?) in envelopes in the Watergate Hotel and Apt. bldg lobby with the hotel security doorman, whatever ( yikes! - cuz' Suskind said O'Neill never even looked at them---what an insidious misuse of possibly critical documentation) for Suskind to pick up...well.....how O'Neill EVER led a company ( yes-I know he was a stickler for detail, with his every move annotated) or served our nation as Treasury Sec. is hard to swallow and flat out alarming.
O'Neill has suffered from being fired and hadnled it like a first grader in terms of revenge- undeserved and totally childish.
Suskind suffers that standard liberal disease, aversion to truth and willingness to do anything to get the goal accomplished. Neither demonstrate the character necessary to earn respect. Glad O'Neill was fired, knowing his character, I am only sorry it took so long to boot him.