Former aide blames Bush for leak deceit
By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.
"There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. "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."
Bush's chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card.
The excerpt, posted on the Web site of publisher PublicAffairs, renews questions about what went on in the West Wing and how much Bush and Cheney knew about the leak. For years, it was McClellan's job to field — and often duck — those types of questions.
Now that he's spurring them, answers are equally hard to come by.
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Associated Press
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.
"There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. "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."
Bush's chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card.
The excerpt, posted on the Web site of publisher PublicAffairs, renews questions about what went on in the West Wing and how much Bush and Cheney knew about the leak. For years, it was McClellan's job to field — and often duck — those types of questions.
Now that he's spurring them, answers are equally hard to come by.
(Continued here.)
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1 Comments:
What the H*## is going on !
Bush must really feel the knife in his back now !
What I don’t understand is with all the “Swiftboat” money around that nobody got to Scott McClellan …. At least if he was going to write a book, why didn’t he get a book deal with Regnery Publishing ? He went to Perseus Books Group.
So who are so what other authors have Perseus Books Group published?
The Bubble of American Supremacy – The costs of Bush’s War in Iraq by George Sorso
The Plan – Big Ideas for America by Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed
This Moment on Earth – Today’s New Environmentalists and their Vision for the Future by John and Teresa Kerry
No End In Sight – Iraq’s Descent into Chaos by Charles Ferguson
This is NOT the publishing house for a Bushie !
I don't think anyone would be surprised by what is printed ... just that Scott would put it in print.
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