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To: macavity who wrote (44511)	1/11/2004 8:37:04 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>I think this intervention is completely un-sterilised.<< A currency maelstrom going "slosh, glug, stink slosh slosh"? ; >>This is why I remain bullish 30Y bonds while $TYX<5.50%<< a mirror of Brady bonds (backed for instance by real) would be an attractive alternative

To: macavity who wrote (44511)	1/13/2004 1:33:11 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

White House calls for probe into ex-Treasury chief By James Harding in Washington Published: January 13 2004 0:38 \| Last Updated: January 13 2004 0:38 Mac, is there any Nigerian advising the administration? LOL! The Bush administration on Monday called for an investigation focused on Paul O'Neill (pictured) after apparently classified documents were aired in a television interview in which the former US Treasury secretary lambasted the leadership of George W. Bush. The Treasury asked the Inspector-General's office to undertake an investigation into how government documents branded "secret" came to be screened on CBS television as part of a 60 Minutes interview with Mr O'Neill on Sunday evening . Mr O'Neill, who did little to disguise his bitterness when sacked from the Treasury by Mr Bush in December of 2002, has emerged from a year of silence with a series of interviews to accompany a book - The Price of Loyalty written by Ron Suskind - that portrays Mr Bush as a disengaged president who was determined to remove Saddam Hussein long before September 11 2001. At a press conference in Monterrey, Mexico, Mr Bush on Monday skirted round the details of Mr O'Neill's criticism but thanked him for his "service" as the Treasury secretary during the difficult first two years of his administration, which saw both recession and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Mr O'Neill has said that, in his 23 months in government service, he never saw evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. But Mr Bush, he said, was determined to oust the Iraqi leader from the moment he came to office. Mr O'Neill also supplied a file of thousands of pages of documents - including a Pentagon memo outlining foreign commercial interests in Iraqi oilfields - to Mr Suskind to help him write the book. Treasury officials said that former government officers were allowed to take some personal documents with them when they left office, such as personal correspondence and speeches, but classified material should not be in his possession. The Treasury said it requested the investigation following the screening of a document branded "secret" as part of the interview with Mr O'Neill. Another administration official said it was understood that the Inspector General's office had already been looking into the use of apparently classified documents in the book. Until Monday, the White House had played down Mr O'Neill's criticisms. When asked about Mr O'Neill's description of the president as "a blind man in a room of deaf people", Scott McClellan, the president's press secretary, on Monday repeated his comment that he was not in the business of doing "book reviews". But the launch of the investigation will reinforce the perceptions of the Bush White House as a vindictive operation when it feels its trust is betrayed. Bush administration officials were reported to have leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA agent, after her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador, criticised Mr Bush for exaggerating the Iraq threat by releasing false information about Baghdad's efforts to obtain nuclear material from Niger.