O'Neill as Ellsberg
2004-01-13 18:10:15.660434+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Huh. Who'd a thought that Paul O'Neill would end up as the Daniel Ellsberg of our time? Or, as Talking Points Memo said:
Number of days between Novak column outing Valerie Plame and announcement of investigation: 74 days.
Number of days between O'Neill 60 Minutes interview and announcement of investigation: 1 day.
Having the administration reveal itself as a gaggle of hypocritical goons ... priceless.
-- Josh Marshall
For those of you who haven't been playing along at home, Dubya's former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has said some less than charitable things about Bush:
Asked about his comment that during Cabinet meetings Bush was like "a blind man in a room full of deaf people," O'Neill said he regretted some of the language he used to describe his former boss.
He also pointed out that Bush had been planning the invasion of Iraq far before September 11th, which should come as a surprise to nobody, but:
"People are trying to say that I said the president was planning war in Iraq early in the administration. Actually there was a continuation of work that had been going on in the Clinton administration with the notion that there needed to be a regime change in Iraq."