Ex-Secretary O’Neill Is Cleared in Inquiry

A U.S. Treasury watchdog agency cleared former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill of wrongdoing in an investigation into how he acquired sensitive documents from his tenure, which he used in a book that criticized the Bush White House.

The report also said that about 140 documents with “national security” or “sensitive but unclassified” information had been given to O’Neill by the Treasury Department. Had they been properly marked as “classified,” they would have been withheld, the report said.

No details of the contents of the “sensitive” information were provided. Portions of the 12-page report and its voluminous appendices were blacked out before its release.