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November 21, 2007
Scott Mclellan Admits White House Lied in Plame Affair
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. Click to read excerpt
As a follow up, regardless of the publisher's claims after this news was made public that Mclellan doesn't say he thought Bush was lying, it is a weak, lame public stance. Why write a book? Surely, the publisher doesn't want to believe that the readers of this book would approach the material the same way they would an article in the National Enquirer. To imply something and then say you didn't say it is a weak politician's debating tactic and leaves me wondering why they would create the media circus by releasing the book excerpt knowing the controversy it would stir. It discredits the publisher by revealing a cheap marketing ploy.
Posted by Ronald at November 21, 2007 12:06 AM