Breaking News!!! Mcllelan spills guts....Points to Bush directly on Plamegate.

[Perky]

McClellan points finger at Bush, Rove

By: Mike Allen
Nov 20, 2007 01:05 PM EST

Politico.com

Ex-White House press secretary says he was misled over Plame – and so was the press and public.
Photo: AP



Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan names names in a caustic passage from a forthcoming memoir that accuses President Bush, Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney of being "involved" in his giving the press false information about the CIA leak case.

McClellan’s publisher released three paragraphs from the book “WHAT HAPPENED: Inside the Bush White House and What’s Wrong With Washington.”

The excerpts give no details about the alleged involvement of the president or vice president.

But McClellan lists five top officials as having allowed him inadvertently to mislead the public.

“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 seniormost aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby,” McClellan wrote.

“There was one problem. It was not true.”

McClellan then absolves himself and makes an inflammatory — and potentially lucrative for his publisher — charge.

“I had unknowingly passed along false information,” McClellan wrote.

“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 says he was in that position because he trusted the president: "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.”

In recent conversations and in his many public speaking engagements, McClellan has made it clear he retains great affection for the president.

But White House sources have long said that Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff, allowed McClellan to suggest day after day that they had no involvement in the publication of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Later testimony showed that they did, although neither was the original source of the leak.

Friends say McClellan was privately bitter and hurt.

He and Rove had come to Washington from Texas together.

“Scottie,” as Bush called him, had worked in the Texas governor’s office, making him one of the president’s longest serving aides.

McClellan, an Austin native, was White House press secretary from 2003 to 2006. Before that, he was traveling press secretary for the Bush-Cheney campaign of 2000.

When McClellan announced his resignation in April 2006, he and the president embraced during a tearful appearance on the South Lawn.

Bush said: “I thought he handled his assignment with class, integrity. ... One of these days he and I are going to be rocking on chairs in Texas, talking about the good old days and his time as the press secretary. And I can assure you I will feel the same way then that I feel now, that I can say to Scott, 'Job well done.'”

Now they’ll have even more to talk about.

[Virginia Dare]

1. UNKNOWINGLY Scotty????

Riiight. I guess you were the last to find out that Rove was a lying POS? Whatever, I hope they frogmarch your ass too one day.
:nopity:

[DS1]

2. Scotties rocking chair is going to be rocking much further forward

probably into a barrel of water.

[Imagevision]

3. Lets see if Blitzer over there at his "Situation Room" finds this to be a newsworthy item?!?

[acmavm]

4. Too bad Snotticles. Now you know how much they valued you

friendship. Now you know how damn expendible you were.

Thrown out like an old dishrag.

[mrfixit]

5. “I had unknowingly passed along false information,”

He must have been the only one who didn't know...

"Hi, I'm Scott McLelland. I'm full of shit. Please buy my new book."

[Imagevision]

6. Dana Perino's response should be entertaining...

[pdxmom]

7. Way too little, way too late. Too bad he never figure out that loyalty is

a one-way street in the * administration.

[Capn Sunshine]

8. Careful on those winter roads in your SUV , Scotty

Frequently single vehicle fatalities occur in winter, especially to enemies of BushCo

[rasputin1952]

9. In most cases, I would claim "shock"...

But considering this maladministration, the only thing that would really "shock" me, is if they did something moral, just or honest.

Interesting....FWIW, if McClellan can prove this, and he might be called to do so, charges should be brought, and the miscreants dealt the severest punishment possible.

[cboy4]

10. Yea, well it's too late to buy his soul back from the devil.

Anyone with half a brain would have known they were being lied to day after day.

Yet, he chose to continue spreading the hurtful and damaging lies of this criminal administration.

I know he was "just" doing his job, but he receives not one speck of forgiveness from me.

[KansDem]

11. Is Scotty off the table?

“I had unknowingly passed along false information,” McClellan wrote.

“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."

If this isn't grounds for impeachment, what is? :shrug:

[ladjf]

12. Of course it is. However, the Administration is not subject to

any laws they by making it a committee dictatorship. Only the rest of us are required to abide by the law.

In Georgia yesterday, three children aged 8,8 and 9 were charged with rape and kidnapping. They appeared before the court, handcuffed. Think about that, 8 yr old boys were handcuffed. What kind of country has America become?

Bush, on the other hand, has a free pass to violate any law on the planet.