Former White House press secretary admits who made him a liar - starting with Bush
Surprise, surprise!
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”.
Posted: Wed - November 21, 2007 at 09:21 AM