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Well this is Oneils response to the criticisms.
[Appearing on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday, O'Neill said "The truth is, I didn't take any documents at all." He said he had asked the Treasury Department's chief legal counsel "to have the documents that are okay for me to have."
[Asked if he thought the internal Treasury probe was a get-even move by the Bush administration, O'Neill replied, "I don't think so. If I were secretary of the Treasury and these circumstances occurred, I would have asked the inspector general to look into it." But O'Neill also said he thinks the questions could have been more readily answered if top Treasury officials had talked to the agency's legal counsel.
["I'm surprised that he didn't call the chief legal counsel," O'Neill said of his successor, Treasury Secretary John W. Snow.
[O'Neill said a cover page for the documents might have suggested they were classified material, but added that the legal counsel's office "sent me a couple CDs, which I never opened." He said he gave them to Suskind, the book's author.]
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