Paul o'Neill wasn't a Clinton man and he sure was no friend. And how about David Kay - wasn't he suppose to be a friend of the administration? I guess its hard to know whom to trust and who might turn on you.
Paul O'Neill was goofy, worthless, and relatively harmless. David Kay, OTOH, has amazed me with his flip-floppy opinions. Don't know if he was a dem mole trying to damage Bush, or if he just figured out what to say to stay in the spotlight.
How did Kay 'turn' on the president? By honestly stating his group found no active WMD programs or weapon stockpiles?
Kaye was never considered a friend of the administration...where'd you get that, because the administration hired him? Nor did he make all the disparaging comments about the administration that the media wuould have you believe.
Read the Kay report. He says the opposite of what the media SAYS he said. The final report (pdf format) should frighten anyone with more than a few functional brain cells to rub together.
Wrong O'Neill, sorry. Also on a Swifties thread and getting confused.
Perhaps not on the surface, but in the mid 90s when Marc Rich was playing hell with aluminum prices and supplies, Clinton intervened on behalf of Alcoa (O'Neill was CEO). Alcoa suddenly was able to get product at a reasonable price, saving O'Neill's job and career. O'Neill owed Clinton big time.