.......our intelligence efforts don't get cooperation, and we are not trusted by "our friends" ?
Our bureaucrats cannot keep secrets........simply said.
Documents former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill gave to an author who used them to write a critical book on President George W. Bush did contain classified information, the current secretary, John Snow said in a letter to Congress obtained by Bloomberg News.
O'Neill, who was fired by the president in December 2002, was the main source for the book, ``The Price of Loyalty,'' written by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind. He gave Suskind 19,000 documents that crossed his desk during his 23 months at the department and which were given to him on his request months after his departure from government.
Those documents ``were not properly reviewed'' by the Treasury before they were given to O'Neill, Snow said in the letter to Representative Adam Putnam, chairman of a panel on the House Government Reform Committee that oversees information policy.
``In recent weeks, Treasury personnel have conducted a systematic review of the documents released to Mr. O'Neill,'' Snow wrote. ``We have identified a number of documents that contain classified information, and we are taking corrective action concerning those documents.''
Snow, attending a meeting in Florida of finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrial nations, was not immediately available for comment.
A Treasury official who declined to be identified said no action would be taken against O'Neill or Suskind and that the department was focusing on improving its handling of classified material....
Evie

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