McClellan blames bush for CIA leak?

Question

So the guy who covered up for bush over the Scooter Libby thing, is now admitting that Bush and Cheney were behind the whole thing, and that Bush and Cheney both have lied to the american people I love our republican, christian president.

Answer 1

McClellan has a conscience, who knew? Sadly, I was not surprised, just pleased that someone credible is willing to tell America that what so many have been thinking for the last three years is true. Bush and his lying cronies are the most corrupt and secretive bunch since the days of Tricky Dick. I always thought when someone finally opened their mouth and told the truth about all of this that I would feel a tingle of pleasant revenge or feel vindicated somehow in what I have believed for so long. But I don't feel the slightest bit of pleasure. I actually just feel grief for all of us.

Until the neocons get their instructions on how to respond to this from Rush and O'Reilly we'll just see namecalling and crys of liberal bias from them tonight. The Bush Bots are desperately winding up to defend their hero as we speak.

Answer 2

I hope there is irony in your comment...

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. 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."

Answer 3

The violation of the Ninth Commandment against bearing false witness has been George W Bush's downfall as a human being and will be his infamous legacy.

Patrick Fitzgerald uncovered a conspiracy in the White House to out Valerie Plame. We now know the contours of this plot after the Libby trial. McClellan is perhaps seeking salvation for himself and our nation by coming clean to avoid the President's spiritual fate.

[ 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." ]

Answer 4

No way! I have not read that yet!
It is, of course, what many had suspected all along, but who would have thought the nervous, sweaty lapdog McClellan would throw them under the bus? Unreal.
And to the other guy who said the Plame issue was no big deal - you have no idea what you are talking about. Do you have any idea what she was investigating while undercover? Do you know what her duties involved? Look into it before you make yourself appear ignorant. Aside from the fact they outed someone who worked as a "patriot" their whole life for this government - they did it for political purposes.
Considering what her and her husband's work involved, it is a very big deal that was not given enough attention.

Answer 5

Not surprising. The leak had to have come from high up in the administration, I thought Cheney for sure but am not surprised in the least that now GW himself is implicated.

Answer 6

Everybody today already "knows" what happened and this will change no minds. But for future historians it will be another black mark on Bush's record.

Answer 7

The entire white house is a pack of lies. Just one more reason to impeach Bush.

Answer 8

well, maybe he is the one that is the one that did it because there are a lot of people that are trying to accuse Bush for more things that were not his fault at all. Also he is probably just trying to make a name for himself. Another reason he could just be mad that Bush fired him and did not listen to him

Answer 9

So, you didn't believe him before but now, all of a sudden, he's got credibility because he's saying something you want to be true? How fair and balanced of you. What part of Richard Armitage's admitting that he leaked the identity did you not understand?

Answer 10

McClellan did the right thing. Perhaps his conscious told him to.