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| Snow: O’Neill Given Classified Documents |
| 2004-02-06 |
| Documents given to former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill for a book contained classified information, according to a letter his successor John Snow sent to Congress on Friday. The letter, obtained by The Associated Press, said that a preliminary investigation conducted by the Treasury Department’s inspector general found that sensitive information was released in the documents given to O’Neill when he left the department. The "documents were not properly reviewed before their release," said the letter signed by Snow. It also said, "We have identified a number of documents that contain classified information and we are taking corrective action concerning those documents." D’oh! How the hell did that get in there? |
| Posted by:whitecollar redneck |
| #3 Years ago when I worked in the Pentagon, an unfortunate O-5 (LtCol) left a binder of Top Secret printouts on the counter at the coffee shop down the hall from our computer center. Not a good way to get promoted .... even if we all did have clearances, this stuff was definitely Need to Know. We all kept our desks VERY clean for a while after that and two of us checked the safe to make sure it was locked every shift, just in case that was the night we'd get the calling cards saying the security people had paid a social call on our particular offices. |
| Posted by: rkb 2004-2-6 9:16:23 PM |
| #2 I have seen a lot of carelessness by supposedly security conscious adults. One individual left classified locked in a trunk at a foriegn airport. The poor private that went to pick it up nearly had his ass kicked by three thieves who watched him retrive it. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-6 6:29:55 PM |
| #1 Jeez, what the f*ck was dubya thinking putting this guy anywhere NEAR the cabinet?! If the dems have any sense (meh, arguable), they'd ignore the WMD red herring and go after this guy's competency - "how many OTHER irresponsible nutcases are running around in the Administration?!" |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-2-6 6:13:41 PM |