Reply #132: Surpriiiise! Clinton did it!

[TacticalPeek]

O'Neill, Suskind and publisher are cool on this.

Apparently, O'Neill did not take boxes of papers with him on his way out the door. He and his top drawer lawyers reviewed what was legally due him. Then they requested it from Treasury. Then Treasury's lawyers reviewed the request, cleared the docs and sent them to him. So this IG inquiry will take about as much time as it took for Novak to write his treasonous column.

Too bad, I'd rather have weeks of coverage of leaks from the inquiry, charge and counter-charge, etc.

The inquiry is all smoke, no cigar.

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WASHINGTON (AP) --

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On "60 Minutes," CBS journalist Lesley Stahl said O'Neill had gotten briefing materials involving Iraq. Suskind said: "There are memos. One of them, marked secret, says 'Plan for post-Saddam Iraq."' A spokesman for "60 Minutes" said a cover sheet of the briefing materials was shown.

"We don't have a secret document. We didn't show a secret document. We merely showed a cover sheet that alluded to such a document," said CBS spokesman Kevin Tedesco.

David Rosenthal, executive vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster, the book's publisher, said: "We stand behind the book. Ron Suskind has acted responsibly and properly in the writing of this book."

Nichols declined to comment on whether the cover sheet of the document shown on "60 Minutes" was part of the 19,000 documents Treasury supplied to O'Neill.
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