Treasury Is Faulted For Papers' Release.

The U.S. Treasury Departments' inspector general reported that treasury officials should not have released 140 of 19,000 documents that former Secretary Paul H. O'Neill requested and was given after his dismissal in December 2002. O'Neill, however did nothing wrong , the investigations concluded. The inspector general said that material should have been classified first. He said that mislabeling had caused the release of the national security or sensitive but unclassified material, however no one had broken any law.