Here's A Freaking Surprise

We ALL saw this one coming.

Treasury wants O'Neill papers probed
Probe to focus on how possibly classified information appeared in a TV interview, spokesman says.
January 12, 2004: 6:03 PM EST

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The Treasury Department said Monday it is looking into how a government document from the very early days of the Bush administration -- marked "secret" and outlining plans for a post-Saddam Iraq -- became part of a CBS "60 Minutes" broadcast Sunday night.

"Based on the '60 Minutes' segment aired Sunday evening, there was a document that was shown that appeared to be classified," said Treasury Department spokesman Rob Nichols. "It was for that reason that it was referred to the U.S. inspector general's office."

Ousted Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, now an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, was a guest on the program, along with Ron Suskind, the author of a book for which O'Neill was the primary source. O'Neill said on the program that the administration was preparing plans to move against Iraq "from the very beginning."

Suskind told CNN he had no access to secret documents and O'Neill never improperly took classified papers after leaving the Administration.

And the White House will never - NEVER - show this much vigorous investigating of the Valerie Plame debacle. They're so damned predictable and so damned vindictive. And no one with any gravity as a journalist will have the balls to do anything about it.