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Tuesday, November 20, 2007


Scott McCllelan: I Was Made To Lie To The Media About Plame For Bush/Cheney

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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.”

Bush’s chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card.

There’s a problem here, unfortunately.  Scooter Libby and Karl Rove weren’t involved in the leaking of Valerie Plame’s name.  Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage is the one who leaked her name to Robert Novak.

And you can hardly even call that a “leak” as, despite knowing exactly who told Bob Novak Plame’s name, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald didn’t file any charges for the unlawful distribution of that information.  He only charged Scooter Libby for misremembering what he told which reporter a year previous to his grand jury testimony.

McClellan is trying to sell books, and he knows a bit of rhetoric sleight-of-hand will give the media (always hungry for an anti-Bush story) what they want.  It’s just sad that it has to come at the expense of the truth.

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It’s just sad that it has to come at the expense of the truth.
By Rob on November 20, 2007 at 04:10 pm

And I guess you know the truth better than Scott McClellan.
Next coming on say anything: Character assasination of Scott McClellan.

ellinas on November 20, 2007 at 04:35 pm

This isn’t anywhere near the big deal that the liberal media will try make it out to be.

After all, Bill Clinton’s former spokesman and current media Pooh-Bah, George Stepanopoulus is on record as recommending the covert assassination of Saddam Hussein, an action clearly illegal at the time.


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Bat One on November 20, 2007 at 04:38 pm
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And I guess you know the truth better than Scott McClellan.
Next coming on say anything: Character assasination of Scott McClellan.

Not really.  I think the guy is obviously just trying to sell books.  He’s telling the “truth,” as it were, just not all of it.

But I think it’s funny how McClellan is suddenly ellinas’ hero now that he’s apparently saying some things that are inconvenient for the Bush administration.


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Rob on November 20, 2007 at 04:42 pm

Misremembered?
Libby was convicted of one count of obstruction, two counts of perjury and one count of lying to the FBI

WOOF on November 20, 2007 at 04:45 pm

But I think it’s funny how McClellan is suddenly ellinas’ hero now that he’s apparently saying some things that are inconvenient for the Bush administration.
Rob on November 20, 2007 at 04:42 pm

Not my hero. Are you suggesting that because he was lying then he is lying again?

ellinas on November 20, 2007 at 04:46 pm

After all, Bill Clinton’s former spokesman and current media Pooh-Bah, George Stepanopoulus is on record as recommending the covert assassination of Saddam Hussein, an action clearly illegal at the time.
Bat One on November 20, 2007 at 04:38 pm

And what does this have to do with the subject at hand?

ellinas on November 20, 2007 at 04:49 pm

In a way it doesn’t matter if McLellan is telling the truth now or not.  1) If he lied then, he sold his honor for a bit of manna. Not just the job then but the money he’ll make turning on his former boss in a political “Mommy Dearest.”. 2) If he is lying now, he is just a damn traitor and liar selling his soul for money. Sorry Ellinas, there is no upside to this matter.

There is no one lower than someone that stays loyal in the trenches and after the battles are over is disloyal for personal profit. If he was asked to lie and did, he has no honor, no ethics and no decency. If he was never asked to lie and didn’t, and now uses his former position to make money on lies he is a whore!

If McLellan wrote a political book based on his experiences and defended Bush, you would be calling him worse than a whore, so no self righteousness please, you are just happy trashing Bush.


In keeping silent about evil, in burying it deep within us, so that it appears nowhere on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
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Neiman on November 20, 2007 at 06:22 pm

McLellan often had that rat in the headlights stare as the press grilled him after his reading of a White House script.

Press: “Green Cheese Scotty?”

McLellan:“Our best, most authoritative unnamed source has no doubt the Moon is almost entirely composed of Green Cheese.
That’s all I can say.”

Scott is just ashamed of having been a part of an ongoing deception.
He did not lie.

He doesn’t call the President and Vice President scumbag liars , McLellan just expresses some shame of being a front man for a deception.

WOOF on November 20, 2007 at 06:42 pm
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Did you have this blog going before The Colbert Report hit the airwaves?  If so, you could sue him for all he’s got.  What you write here is so ludicrous that it’s got to be satire.  Your logic is so tortured, um, I mean, “extraordinarily interrogated”, that your tongue must be pretzel-shaped.

dannyboy on November 20, 2007 at 07:12 pm
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Did you have this blog going before The Colbert Report hit the airwaves?

snottyboy: So, what exactly is your claim to fame?
Please give us the url for your blog so we can see what quality really is!


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Proof on November 20, 2007 at 07:16 pm
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The world is my blog, ass-master!  I’m like the wind!

dannyboy on November 20, 2007 at 07:29 pm
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The world is my blog, ass-master!  I’m like the wind!

If you meant “my mother’s basement is my blog” and that you “break wind” then yes, you are correct.


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Rob on November 20, 2007 at 08:03 pm
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The world is my blog

dimmyboy: Your tinfoil hat is slipping again!


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Proof on November 20, 2007 at 08:14 pm
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Well kiss my grits, a volley from the bouncing fathead himself!  BBBBRRRRAAAPPPPP!!!!!

dannyboy on November 20, 2007 at 08:14 pm
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dimmy: Pure class!


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My wife says it’s a very nice fat head…


The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Rob on November 20, 2007 at 08:35 pm

Some folks are incapable of believing “W” can do anything wrong. This man has been a disaster, and you continue with blinders on.


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Davinski on November 20, 2007 at 08:38 pm
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Siddown, Waldo.

CLASS DISMISSED!!!!

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Siddown, Waldo. CLASS DISMISSED

Four more words without a thought! (Not his personal record, though!)


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You’re up to 11, shithead!  Now go back to suckin’ yer mama’s dick.

dannyboy on November 20, 2007 at 10:00 pm

My heart tells me that Scotty is just selling books but my head tells me that he is yet another victim of BDS.

I blame media bias, the UN and liberals although not necessarily in that order.


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MikeAdamson on November 20, 2007 at 10:39 pm
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C’mon, Mike.  In order for Bush/Cheney to have gotten McClellan to lie about Libby/Rove’s “leak” of Plame’s name, they would have had to actually have leaked the name.

Which didn’t happen because a) it was Armitage and b) it wasn’t a “leak.”


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Rob on November 20, 2007 at 10:43 pm

Considering that Armitage has now apologized 3 times for disclosing Valerie Plame’s job status to Novak, McClellan is and was lying. Now, the question is why, what exactly is he going to gain from this. The money from book sales will be eaten up by lawyers fees from the multiple lawsuits that will be dropped on his ass. So it must be some other payoff he is angling towards.


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2Hotel9 on November 21, 2007 at 05:19 am

Rob…I was just amusing myself on a slow evening although I do wonder why you insist that Plame’s name was disclosed only to Novak and only one time.

2H9…I think what’s confusing you is the sight of a former Bush Administration official doing the right thing. Scotty should be commended for working in an environment apparently rife with examples of such chicanery.


“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ”

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MikeAdamson on November 21, 2007 at 07:21 am

So now you are calling Richard Armitage a liar. That is a neat trick, eating your own is so vulgar.


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2Hotel9 on November 21, 2007 at 07:50 am

RA isn’t mine and I certainly did not call him a liar. How could you think that?


“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ”

Arthur Schopenhauer

MikeAdamson on November 21, 2007 at 12:13 pm

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2H9…I think what’s confusing you is the sight of a former Bush Administration official doing the right thing. Scotty should be commended for working in an environment apparently rife with examples of such chicanery.

If Scotty beamed up only nice things to say about Bush, your would throw a hissy fit, KHAN!! But, now you are seizing on this obvious falsehood because you are suffering from near fatal BDS. McLellan is just another in the long line, in both parties, of backstabbing people trying to sell books unable to objectively document their charges. Bastards all!


In keeping silent about evil, in burying it deep within us, so that it appears nowhere on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago

Neiman on November 21, 2007 at 12:35 pm

I think what’s confusing you is the sight of a former Bush Administration official doing the right thing.

Mike A,

I think all of us here are well aware of your high-minded devotion to liberal principles (such as those truly are), but I can’t recall an equally high-handed partisanship on your part.  I would have thought this sort of snotty, purposeless bitch-slap was beneath you.  Its hardly clear that liberal politicians, on either side of the border, are above reproach when it comes to scandal, bribery, and outright lies.


“Capitalism is optimism monetized.”

Bat One on November 21, 2007 at 12:39 pm

Its hardly clear that liberal politicians, on either side of the border, are above reproach when it comes to scandal, bribery, and outright lies.

Liberals are definitely not above reproach…in fact I don’t believe they’re any more or less above approach than conservative politicians. This has been my consistent position since landing at SA and if my comment seemed bitter, it is is likely a reflection of my distaste for hypocrisy.


“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ”

Arthur Schopenhauer

MikeAdamson on November 21, 2007 at 04:44 pm

Neiman…I read your comment and don’t know what to say in reply…just so you know I’m not ignoring you.


“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ”

Arthur Schopenhauer

MikeAdamson on November 21, 2007 at 04:50 pm
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