Question regarding the 19,000 pages O'Neill gave to the author

[Fleshdancer]

Does anyone know if these documents will be made public? On 60 minutes, didn't they show a document with a list of possible companies (or was it countries?) who would split the Iraqi oil after the American take over of the country? Is there any way to get a freeze frame of it to try to actually read that particular document?

It would be interesting to compare what that document says to what is actually going on now.

[Mari333]

1. I would hope that a full blown investigation is called for

and demanded by both Dems and Repubs..this is treason, says John Dean..I already called my Repug House member and Senator Levin (D) and demanded they do so...
Its time for action..call your Senators and Congress and demand a special investigation into this ..
We all had to wade thru that bogus Ken Starr report for christs sake and that was over a Blow Job
This is life and death and *bUsh and CO should be held accountable PRONTO!

[Catfish]

2. Admin threats

They've already said that they are going to investigate O'Neill for releasing documents. Funny how they don't care that a CIA agent's cover was blown but they're worried about these "documents". I hope Suskind will use them further and release them.

[htuttle]

3. Over at Smoking Gun

There was a set of documents that Judicial Watch had managed to pry out of the Cheney energy meetings in 2002.

The ones I read (and downloaded) included a bidder list of foreign companies who were currently negotiating with Iraq. While it sounds like a similar document, I had the impression that it was more a list of companies that were going to get screwed after they took over Iraq, than a list of companies that were going to get goodies. It's probably the companion list to the one displayed on 60 minutes.

[tritsofme]

4. Do we know if these papers are supposed to be classified?

Because the last thing we need is to give * an excuse to declare him an enemy combatant and throw O'Neil in the brig.

[Mari333]

5. Ellsberg dragged out classified documents

and was thrown in the brig...but let out..the documents were made public and were called the Pentagon Papers...let them all be made public...asap....then, they cant do a damned thing to him...it would backfire if they did. They have already outed a CIA agent and thats got to be part and parcel of the FULL investigation of this shady bunch of secretive bastards.

[bobbieinok]

6. Pentagon Papers 'were made public' when US had a free

press.

Does anyone remember how this went??

...I think---- NY Times started publishing, Nixon WH tried to stop it, Supreme Court said they could be published.

Now just think about today's NY Times and the Supreme Court -
...I don't think the Pentagon Papers would have ever been heard of if it had happened today.

Was Daniel Schorr fired from CBS over this - or was it something else??