Probe: No Laws Broken in O'Neill Book
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Treasury Department watchdog agency on Monday cleared former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill of wrongdoing in a probe of how he acquired sensitive documents from his tenure, which were later used in a book critical of the Bush White House.
"The Principal Deputy Chief for Public Integrity, Department of Justice, was consulted regarding this investigation and determined that no criminal statutes were violated," said a synopsis of Treasury's Inspector General report, obtained by Reuters under federal freedom of information laws.
But the report also said about 140 documents with "national security" or "sensitive but unclassified" information had been given to O'Neill. Had they been properly marked as "classified," they would have been withheld, the report said.
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