President Bush, Karl Rove, and other top administration officials were "involved" in misleading the White House press corps about the outing of ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame, a forthcoming book from former Press Secretary Scott McClellan alleges.
"The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," writes McClellan. "So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby."
But his press performances weren't based on the facts, McClellan continues.
"There was one problem. It was not true," he writes. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself."
You know I have always felt a little sorry for Scott McClellan. He always looked overwhelmed by the job of defending the President's decisions to a press corps that could smell blood in the water.
And the fact that he is willing to put in print just how deceitful and manipulative Bush and his cabinet were just makes me feel bad for calling Scott "Puffy McMoonface".
Scot has certainly earned my respect for not continuing to cover for this criminal President and his administration. I can only hope that there are many more to follow.
And I am going to buy his book, "What Happened", just to show my support for anybody with the balls to criticize this bunch of assholes after being off the koolaid for a while.
welll holy crap and call it Tuesday...I always called him the Pinata...and gee look what he spilled....wow...
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Well I would usually be over the moon at this development. But then I remember just how many "smoking guns" have been found around this presidency and yet they are still standing.
ReplyDeleteHowever as you may know I am still plowing through the Valerie Plame book (I am at the part where they filed their lawsuit), and this seems to be the kind of declaration that simply screams for a reopening of the civil suit, and even perhaps another special prosecutor to look into the possibility that the President lied to Fitzgerald during the Plame investigation.
Yeah I know, not very damn likely. But a boy can dream can't he?
you can dream honey and you should....we all have to at this point...if we don't ??? WHAT do we have....6-6 is still saving to buy me the book...but it looks good- I read 2 chapters when we went to Borders last week...the redacted parts are really really strange...
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