Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a memoir that he unintentionally misled the public about the leak of a CIA operative’s name because of misinformation given to him by President George W. Bush, political adviser Karl Rove and other top officials….
“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,” McClellan, 39, wrote. “There was one problem. It was not true.
”McClellan wrote that he “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.”
Nothing new about lies and deceit offered by this government as a replacement for honesty and ethics.
The list of committed conservatives who once accepted neocon “leadership” – now bailing on Bush – multiplies while Republican candidates fumble onstage to distance themselves from previous public endorsements of the “lie du jour”.
>>The amazing thing is that Bush is the first
>>President to ever have done something wrong.
No, but he took it to a new level. If lying were an Olympic sport, he’d be a gold medalist.
And couple that with his borderline-retarded intelligence and his inability to string together more than 3 words without fucking it up, and you understand why anyone in the rest of the world who doesn’t hate us is laughing at us.
Peter Osnos, the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Books, which is publishing McClellan’s book in April, tells NBC from his Connecticut home that McCLellan, “Did not intend to suggest Bush lied to him.”
Media stories about aides criticizing the President can usually be categorized as those who lie, and those who are misquoted.
>>Peter Osnos…tells NBC…that McCLellan, “Did not intend to suggest Bush lied to him.”
Who the fuck cares what his publisher says? I’ll bet Dumbya’s momma says he doesn’t lie either.
McClellan says that Bush lied, everybody knows that Bush is a liar – where’s the controversy here?
Steve >> Because he is saying something the MSM wants to hear and salivate over. This blog will eat it up because a lot the posters want to believe everything negative about the administration and nothing good.
Sure. Blame the “MSM” for the conservatives giving us a lying treasonous president.
If Clinton deserved impeachment for lying about a BJ, I think Bush lying to start a war, committing treason to cover up that lie and then suborning perjury to cover up that treason certainly is.
i think that people have forgotten that as a cia officer valerie plame was a soldier
to out her was shitty, i don’t care who did it.
lying rat bastard
The publisher is saying McClellan has been misquoted. That McClellan did not say Bush lied.
#2 – Phillep
“J, Bush did not blow Plame’s cover. Armitage, who no one is going to call a friend of Bush’s, blew her cover.”
Oh, so that was Armitage, passing himself off as Bob Novak, writing a column with his byline? Good to know. I can just imagine how surprised Novak’s gonna be when he finds out.
There seems to be a steady stream of ex-White House folks and ex-generals who suddenly turn around and say “Oh BTW Bush is lying to us all”.
It doesn’t matter really to the GOP faithful. Bush is the Dear Leader born on the magic mountain so nothing will destroy their support.