WP (Milbank): Treasury Improperly Released Information to O'Neill

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By Dana Milbank and Lucy Shackelford

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The department said the fault was in the document screening process and that no action would be taken against O'Neill or the book's author, Ron Suskind. "The corrective action is to be taken internally," said Anne Womack Kolton, a Treasury spokeswoman. She said there will be no effort made to prevent publication of the documents, which are being released over the Internet.

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"The Treasury Department recognized that those documents were not properly reviewed before their release," Snowe wrote.

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Suskind said yesterday that he has hired lawyers who have been in discussion with government lawyers over the online release of the documents. "None of the documents in the 19,000 that we know of were stamped 'classified,' " he said. "There may be documents the government feels retroactively that should be classified. Those are the documents the government in the last few days has alerted us about."

The author said the government has so far identified only "a handful" of sensitive documents and that he is still in negotiations over which will be released. "I have no intentions to publish anything that would compromise national security," he said.

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1. "I have no intentions to publish anything that would

compromise national security," he said.

Just send those over to Bob Novak, who has both the impunity and the cynic's heart to use them.