Well, that didn’t take very long:
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill has been cleared of wrongdoing in the use of classified documents as source material for a book that portrayed President Bush in an unflattering light, Treasury Department sources told CNN on Friday.
The investigation by the department’s inspector general found that though O’Neill did receive classified material from the department after his resignation, the lapse was the fault of the department, not O’Neill, the sources said.
In a letter sent to members of Congress on Friday, Treasury Secretary John Snow said the documents “were not properly reviewed before their release” and that “we are taking corrective action concerning those documents,” according to sources.
Interesting how they got to the bottom of this disclosure in less than a month. Still no word on the Plame leak from last summer. . . .
“Why would I be attacked for telling the truth?”