{"id":598,"date":"2004-02-07T01:25:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T06:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/oneill_cleared\/"},"modified":"2004-02-07T01:25:01","modified_gmt":"2004-02-07T06:25:01","slug":"oneill_cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/oneill_cleared\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill Cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn&#8217;t take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/02\/06\/oneill.cleared\/index.html\">very long<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Treasury Secretary Paul O&#8217;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.<br \/>\nThe investigation by the department&#8217;s inspector general found that though O&#8217;Neill did receive classified material from the department after his resignation, the lapse was the fault of the department, not O&#8217;Neill, the sources said.<br \/>\nIn a letter sent to members of Congress on Friday, Treasury Secretary John Snow said the documents &#8220;were not properly reviewed before their release&#8221; and that &#8220;we are taking corrective action concerning those documents,&#8221; according to sources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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. . . .<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/01\/09\/60minutes\/main592330.shtml\">Why would I be attacked for telling the truth?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/oneill_cleared\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to O&#8217;Neill Cleared\"><p>Well, that didn&#8217;t take very long: Former Treasury Secretary Paul O&#8217;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&#8217;s inspector general found that though O&#8217;Neill did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}