Posted on 11/21/2007 2:23:43 PM PST by tcrlaf
Spokesman 'did not intend to suggest' the president purposely misled him
WASHINGTON - Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan does not believe President Bush lied to him about the role of White House aides I. Lewis Scooter Libby or Karl Rove in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity, according to McClellan's publisher.
Peter Osnos, the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Books, which is publishing McClellan's book in April, tells NBC from his Connecticut home that McCLellan, "Did not intend to suggest Bush lied to him."
Osnos says when McClellan went before the White House press corps in 2003 to publicly exonerate Libby and Rove, the problem was that his statement was not true. Osnos said the president told McClellan what "he thought to be the case." But, he says, McClellan believes, "the president didn't know it was not true."
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Can you say PLANTED STORY?
Yeah, it was a smear. But the WH called Rove out of retirement to plant the Natalee Holloway story, so it’s a wash.
McC used the expression "anyone having anything to do with the Valerie Plame situation" when Pres. Bush had actually said "anyone found to have broken the law." McC should have been fired immediately for incompetence since he did not realize the difference between the two statements.
At a minimum, your press secretary should be extremely good with words. Scott, you weren't.
A day late and a dollar short, Scotty..
There was a lot puffery about the book rushed to print reporting what the MSM employees felt the book would say.
When one of the MSM employees actually got a copy of the book all mention of the book abruptly stopped.
In case you don't know, the criticism of the Republicans was for not convicting Clinton.
how great is this???
first the lunatics fall into depression after their “Fitzmass” was cancelled and now their Thanksgiving is ruined....gotta love it!
Scott McClellan was the “deer in the headlights” press secretary. My opinion. And what was it that Pres. Bush “got wrong?” As I see it, Dickie Armitage was working against the administration, and they didn’t even know about it until much later.
General Powell knew though. He’s in the same category as Armitage, again, my opinion.
The whole reporting on this has been so fuzzy. It’s like no one will put the pieces together — even Fox News has been guilty on this point.
I think Scott McClellan owes it to his President to make a public appearance and clarify this whole embroglio his publishers have fomented.
I like to watch Chris Matthews cause this man is kind of like that man from LaMancha...tilting at windmills.
It’s sad, almost, to see this guy so full of hate for VP Dick Cheney and to keep that chamberpot on his head over this Valerie Plame thing.
This was so obviously a Drive-by Media tactic.
Finally I had to turn Chrissie off....I really felt sorry for him.
Valerie and Joe are so last year....
wanna flesh that one out, please?
Incredibly, Fox News told the correct story exonerating Scott from the beginning while theirheadline claimed W put the arm on him.
They were positively clintonesque.
The McClellan story was a smear, and Natalee Holloway took it off the frontpages. Check the Breaking News area.
Huh???
Oh Yea, right.
BUSH LIED--SCOTT CRIED
Who is Natalee Holloway?
I bet Waxman is already planning hearings.
Where ya been? The usual suspects were re-arrested today. See breaking new. Iffen ya ain’t pulling ma leg, that is!
MacBump
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