11/21/2007
Scott McClellan Points Finger at Bush, Cheney Over False Iraq Info
The publisher of Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's forthcoming book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington
"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. 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. There was one problem. It was not true. 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. ."
McClellan has declined to comment further.
The 400-page book is scheduled for publication on April 21. Should be an interesting read.
Posted 11:45 AM EST by Andy Towle in Books, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Iraq, Karl Rove, News | Permalink
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Yet another of these Kool-Aid drinking vermin who alert the world to the evils of the Bush Administration only after they're no longer in a position to do anything about it. Bottom-feeding bastards, all. Can we call them Retro-Active Whistle Blowers?
Posted by: Roscoe | Nov 21, 2007 11:49:48 AM
Let's impeach both Bush and Cheney and let Nancy Pelosi have a crack at it.
Posted by: MT | Nov 21, 2007 11:52:30 AM
that kind of lie is more important than a lie about a blow-job, right?
Posted by: no-no | Nov 21, 2007 11:55:04 AM
Unfortunately this is just more proof that Nancy Peloci should have called for impeachment proccedings when she first became Speaker of the House. But she is an uneffectual nitwhit with no direction for her party in Congress.
It's never too late to impeach!!
Posted by: impeach | Nov 21, 2007 12:06:06 PM
Not exactly a surprise.
Posted by: anon (gmail.com) | Nov 21, 2007 12:23:53 PM
A dumb president for a rather dumb country. What else is new? We deserve this dreck.
Posted by: jeff | Nov 21, 2007 12:26:59 PM
I wonder if they can feel the knives piercing their backs right now.
I hope so.
Posted by: Wes | Nov 21, 2007 12:29:31 PM
These criminals and their enablers deserve to be sent to the slammer for a very very long time.
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Nov 21, 2007 12:45:16 PM
This thinly veiled attempt to distance himself from an administration of which he is just a culpable, is not a surprise.
If anything the book will serve to keep the discussion of WMD's in the public's consciousness, hopefully stimulating further reaction toward, at the most, impeachment and at the very least something the Left can spin to their advantage.
Posted by: TOBOOT | Nov 21, 2007 1:00:16 PM
It's hard not to lose heart after these stories. People are dying in a war and I cannot stop it. It was bad enough before when I didn't actually know people going overseas. But now people that I know (some guys in my soccer league) are going to Iraq. I'm frightened that they may not return.
I've donated cash to Democratic candidates for the past several political cycles hoping that would help counter the Republican message. That's failed because somehow the Democrats could not articulate a coherent message.
I've voted, but that hasn't worked because somehow even more people voted for Bush the second time. You'd think that getting us into a war alleging something that isn't true, i.e., WMD in Iraq, would be enough to get people to change their minds about Bush. But . . . no.
Heck, I even protested the first Bush inauguration. Nothing seems to work.
I'm kind of at a loss. I'm not sure what will get people to focus or to see the terrible job this administration has done.
Perhaps, Bush is the true "Teflon Don." I'm hoping that, like the first "Teflon Don," karma finally catches up with Bush et. al. and that no more people American, British, Iraqi, etc. die in this conflict.
Peace, Love, & Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
Posted by: Brandon | Nov 21, 2007 2:36:41 PM
McClellan is what is wrong with Washington. He should have made clear what was going on long before now.
Posted by: Critifur | Nov 21, 2007 3:23:57 PM
This story is HUGE... why isn't "liberal" the press talking about it more???? This makes me so angry, and Brandon I totally feel your pain. But Dems HAVE to do something about this now-- this kind of a lie and cover-up from our President cannot escape justice. Impeachment MUST be brought to the floor of congress. Bush said that he would remove from office anyone involved in wrong-doings regarding the Plame leak. Well, now we know he was talking about himself.
Posted by: Rob | Nov 21, 2007 4:18:45 PM
Here is how to contact the ONE person who has the power to begin Impeachment procedures. WRITE! PROTEST! CALL! LET"S GET OFF OUR COMPUTERS LOOKING AT FLUFF AND DO SOMETHING!
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=CA08&site=ctc&address=&city=&state=CA&zipcode=&plusfour=
Posted by: noteasilyoffended | Nov 21, 2007 4:58:12 PM
Happy Thanksgiving people!
My reaction is: "nooooo waaaaaay!" It can't take a 400 page book to say Bush et al are liars. Can it? Oooohhh wait. Book deal. Money. My bad.
This will knock the smug smile of Dubya's face (did you see the ABC interview where the journalist crawled up his ass?)
Posted by: SeanR | Nov 21, 2007 8:08:57 PM
McClellan was an incompetent moron. This "bombshell" is anything but and is just his lame attempt to create a hook for his book.
If there was any meat to his claims do you really think you'd be finding out about it through a book due next April? Please.
Posted by: queendru | Nov 21, 2007 9:03:03 PM
No-No said, "that kind of lie is more important than a lie about a blow-job, right?"
A president, also a law professor, also a lawyer, repeatedly lied under oath in legitimate legal proceedings. Yeah, nothing important there!
If a president can't be trusted to speak truthfully *under oath* or not held to account to that standard, what the hell hope do we have?
Posted by: queendru | Nov 21, 2007 9:13:05 PM
Dear queenCuntDru
Do you ever tirer of licking the shit out of Bush's asshole? It's not chocolate like you tell everyone it is.
It's horrible how YOU and Bush continue to shit on the graves of American soldiers.
I hope you and your Bushie ilk burn in hell
for all the murders you've done in America's name
Posted by: Whatever | Nov 23, 2007 9:16:48 AM
This book is going to turn out to be nothing. I think these two paragraphs is as much load as McClellan has to shoot.
I can't believe after six, almost seven, years that people are trying to make a case for impeachment from so few words.
The evidence against Bush isn't in Scottie's book, it's with Mark Klein, the ATT whistleblower, it's with Christie Whitman and whatever papers she destroyed about the health of the air at Ground Zero. It's also with Scooter and Karl and Alberto.
But do you really think a book written by a guy whose mom is big in Texas state politics is going to write an expose revealing impeachable offenses by the President and VP?
There is nothing in this book that will be actionable.
Much ado about nada.
Posted by: Joe Bua | Nov 24, 2007 1:33:37 PM