] NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Long a source of fun and fury on
] Wall Street and in Washington, former Treasury Secretary
] Paul O'Neill is back in the news for shooting his mouth
] off again.

Here's some information, pro and con, about O'Neill's history.

I'm still coming up to speed on the whole story, so I haven't made up my mind yet on whether or not O'Neill is credible. I do find it amusing though that many people who almost certainly had never heard of O'Neill before his book came out, and probably couldn't name any other cabinet members if their life depended on it, are jumping on O'Neill's bandwagon simply because they like *anything* that criticizes Bush. Or in other words, while O'Neill was *in* the administration, they would have perceived him as "one of them," a clueless idiot, but now that he's got some critical things to say about Bush, they praise him as a saintly whistle-blower.

This CNN article seems to do a pretty good job (IMHO) of trying to look at both sides of the issue. I look forward to more analysis in the future.

CNN: Just how bad were O'Neill's gaffes?