O'Neil pulls a Clinton " I did not take those documents, they were given to me".
O'Neil says he will still vote for his ex-boss and wishes he didn't say he is ""A Blind Man in a Room Full of Deaf People".
1-13-2004 O'Neill Says He Didn't Take U.S. Treasury Documents
"I said to him (the general counsel) I would like to have the documents that are OK for me to have. About three weeks later, the general counsel, the chief legal officer, sent me a couple of CDs, which I frankly never opened," said O'Neill, who resigned under pressure a year ago in a shake-up of Bush's economy team.
I don't honestly think there is anything that is classified in those 19,000 sheets," said O'Neill, adding only the cover sheet shown on television bore the words "secret."
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.
"If I could take it back, I would take it back. It has become the controversial centerpiece."
Pressed whether he would vote for Bush in the November presidential election, O'Neill said he probably would, but he said the American people needed to demand more of their leaders.
O'Neil says he will still vote for his ex-boss and wishes he didn't say he is ""A Blind Man in a Room Full of Deaf People".
1-13-2004 O'Neill Says He Didn't Take U.S. Treasury Documents
"I said to him (the general counsel) I would like to have the documents that are OK for me to have. About three weeks later, the general counsel, the chief legal officer, sent me a couple of CDs, which I frankly never opened," said O'Neill, who resigned under pressure a year ago in a shake-up of Bush's economy team.
I don't honestly think there is anything that is classified in those 19,000 sheets," said O'Neill, adding only the cover sheet shown on television bore the words "secret."
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.
"If I could take it back, I would take it back. It has become the controversial centerpiece."
Pressed whether he would vote for Bush in the November presidential election, O'Neill said he probably would, but he said the American people needed to demand more of their leaders.
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