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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

More evidence of lying

With the excerpt from former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's book just released to the press, I am again left wondering, why is GWB not being impeached? McClellan's (granted, quite self-serving) account of the "outing" of Valerie Plame Wilson affirms yet again that Bush and Cheney "actively engaged in efforts to prevent the truth from coming out." Why were pundits and conservative activists so enraged by Clinton's (relatively minor) misconduct, but they give both Bush and Cheney a complete pass on their own blatant misdeeds?

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/21/content_7119951.htm

Former aide says Bush misled media in CIA leak case
11-21- 2007

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan said in his new book that President George W. Bush misled the media in the CIA leak scandal, according to an excerpt of the book released Tuesday.


In the book titled "What Happened", McClellan said top administration officials -- including Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney -- were involved in his "unknowingly" passing along false information about the leak of a CIA operative's identity.

McClellan, a long-time Bush aide, served as White House press secretary from July 2003 until April 2006.

In October 2003, as controversy grew about the leak of the name of Valerie Plame, the CIA operative, McClellan told reporters that Karl Rove, then the Bush's top political adviser, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, had not been involved.

"There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes in the new book, which is to be released in April.

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