Suskind

"When this project officially began in February 2003, I was heartened, though not surprised, to find that Paul O'Neill had a striking view of the value of secrecy-- that it had almost no value. We both happened to have read the 1998 by by Daniel Patrick Moynihan; a friend and mentor to O'Neill, who wrote that twenty years on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had taught him a single, sterling lesson: The threat to our national security is not from secrets revealed, it's from bad analysis."


February 14, 2004