https://freerepublic.com/tag/thepriceofloyalty/ en-us Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:28:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103608/posts <p>WASHINGTON -- Sensitive national-security information was mistakenly released by the Treasury Department to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, but no criminal statutes were violated, records show.</p> <p>Mr. O'Neill drew on some of the material -- part of a cache of 19,000 documents -- for a memoir released in January that was critical of President Bush. When a document stamped "Secret" was displayed on a CBS "60 Minutes" episode concerning the book, the Treasury Department sought an investigation.</p> Wall Street Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103608/posts#comment Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:28:25 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103241/posts <p>March 22 (Bloomberg) -- No laws were broken when the U.S. Treasury Department released documents to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who presented them to an author to write a critical book on President George W. Bush, the department's inspector general said in a report.</p> Bloomberg https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103241/posts#comment Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:05:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124091/posts It is rare to have books exploring the legacy of a presidential administration still in its first term. It is rarer still to have the number of insider accounts that Americans have access to in 2004. “These books appear to be painting history before our eyes,” said Charlotte Abbott, news editor of Publishers Weekly. “No one in the industry of publishing can remember a time since Watergate when so many political books have come out and the public has been interested – and a lot of those Watergate titles came out after.” One of the reporters who first exposed Watergate,... CBSNews.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124091/posts#comment Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:11:07 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1056442/posts Laurie Mylroie sent out an email about Paul O'Neill's appearance on 60 Minutes last night; she notes what appears to be a major error in Ron Suskind's book, which casts doubt on the credibility of both Suskind and O'Neill. Here is the key portion of Mylroie's email: "In his appearance this evening on '60 Minutes,' Ron Suskind, author of The Price of Loyalty, based to a large extent on information from former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill, made an astonishing, very serious misstatement. "Suskind claimed he has documents showing that preparations for the Iraq war were well underway before... Power Line https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1056442/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:12:01 GMT