WASHINGTON - 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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_mcclellan;_ylt=AvZ2hP2.mD.gRluzVe.bfuWs0NUE
2007-11-20 08:40:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
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."
2007-11-20 08:43:41 · update #1
Bush most recently addressed the issue in July after commuting Libby's 30-month prison term. He acknowledged that some in the White House were involved in the leak. Then, after repeatedly declining to discuss the ongoing investigation, he said the case was closed and it was time to move on.
2007-11-20 08:49:20 · update #2
No surprise there
when do we indict them is the question?
2007-11-20 08:45:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes,they shut Libby up by commuting his sentence he won't talk. The question was never if she was working at the CIA, but if she was an agent...or a file clerk. So now you get to hear red herrings like she wasn't covert. Any precedent, not really, like so much of this administration they can't even lie well enough not to get caught. But they control the information so they can limit what can be looked at. They are just hoping to bury it the way they did Gonzales, and just in case they will unbury Clinton's sex life. Sex is so much more fun than treachery.
2016-05-24 08:48:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not surprised. The Bush administration is corrupt and incompetent from top to bottom. They fed Colin Powell to the Wolfe's and tried to get revenge for Valrie Plame's husband bad mouthing them. The Bush administration is just sickening.
2007-11-20 08:51:36 · answer #3 · answered by Easy B Me II 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't stand that lying little weasel when he was press secretary, but this book sounds interesting already. It's amazing how some people develop a conscience once they get away from Darth Vader's sphere of influence.
2007-11-20 09:28:01 · answer #4 · answered by Michael S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Amazing that there are so many in this country who are willing to let the president get away with treason. They want to believe his lies, and lie themselves into believing them.
millions of heads in the sand these days...
sad really...
2007-11-20 08:49:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
never any doubt, even before the book came out.
2007-11-20 09:29:59 · answer #6 · answered by tomjohn2 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To use a term the the right is so fond of
That's Treasonous!!!!
2007-11-20 08:50:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
You are taking an excerpt as fact based. In didn't get your meaning out of it.
2007-11-20 08:46:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
facts in dispute and well out of context. typical liberal pap.
2007-11-20 08:58:46 · answer #9 · answered by koalatcomics 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋