Gov't Seeks Probe Amid O'Neill InterviewThe Treasury Department is seeking an investigation into whether a classified document might have been shown during a TV show in which former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill spoke out against the Bush administration."They showed a document that had a classification term on it, so we referred this today to the Office of Inspector General," [Treasury spokesman Rob] Nichols said. "I'll be even more clear - the document as shown on `60 Minutes' that said `secret.'"
"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.Nonstory, but well, you know, since they don't have anything substantive on O'Neill, and the best rebuttal to his
charges of ideology trumping evidence is that
either:
a) "Nobody listened to him while he was in office," a senior official said. "Why should anybody now?"; or
b) it ''appears that the world according to Mr. O'Neill is about trying to justify his own opinion, rather than looking at the reality.''Those are pretty nonspecific responses to the charge that Mr. Bush is "like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people.'' But, why respond to facts with facts when ad hominem attacks are your cup of tea?