Asked if he thought the internal Treasury probe was a get-even move by the Bush administration, O'Neill replied, "I don't think so. If I were secretary of the Treasury and these circumstances occurred, I would have asked the inspector general to look into it." But O'Neill also said he thinks the questions could have been more readily answered if top Treasury officials had talked to the agency's legal counsel.
"I'm surprised that he didn't call the chief legal counsel," O'Neill said of his successor, Treasury Secretary John Snow. article
O'Neill is either guileless or amazingly smooth in his craftiness.
Surprised. Sure. He knows these people. He knows he was replaced with a carefully hand-picked "loyal" secretary.
It's a good tack though. To become incensed and publicly reactive would aid and abet the opposition.
And, for the record, he apparently agrees with Double-dumb's assertion about the "regime change" policy (which of course is true, but I suggest it goes back a good way before Clinton)...
"People are trying to make the case that I said the president was planning war with Iraq early in the administration. Actually, it was a continuation of work that was going on in the Clinton administration, with the notion that there needed to be regime change," he said.
He added that he saw nothing wrong with the president's agenda at that point.
O'Neill may just stay alive, and he may just have given the oust Bush movement greater momentum.
I don't want to get my hopes up too much, though. I'll still be keeping an eye open for a new home in case BushCo gets reSelected. And I have a feeling that, if the anti-Bush movement gets up too much speed, we're in for another, possibly much worse, 9/11.
Stay tuned.
....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
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