Posted on 05/29/2008 8:52:57 AM PDT by tobyhill
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The incidents that first left then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan "dismayed and disillusioned" about Washington involved the surreptitious release of classified information, McClellan said Thursday.
The first of the "defining moments," McClellan told NBC's "Today" show, was when CIA operative Valerie Plame's name was leaked to the media.
The second, he said, was when he learned that President Bush had secretly declassified a report on Iraq so Vice President Dick Cheney and Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby could disclose it to reporters.
"We had been out there talking about how seriously the president took the leaking of classified information, and here we were learning that the president had authorized the very same that we were criticizing," McClellan said, the day after his controversial memoir hit bookstore shelves.
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Gee chubby little Scotty, the President gets to do that sort of thing. He's the President!
Send this boy back down to Texas where he has a good ol'fashioned ass whipping waiting for him!
“secretly declassified”
isn’t this kind of an oxymoron?
I think scotty is looking forward to hupitals with David Brock. And scotty is the “woman” in the relationship.
Does McClellen not realize the 'leak' was done by a fellow anti-warer Richard Armitage?
hupitals = nuptials
“The first of the “defining moments,” McClellan told NBC’s “Today” show, was when CIA operative Valerie Plame’s name was leaked to the media.”
Whatta doofus. Dept of State leaked Plame, not the Executive branch and no laws were broken.
I bet Zsa Zsa Huffington bit McClellan and turned him into a Soros zombie.
FYI...the statement the MSM has been making:
On July 18, 2003, the administration, facing criticism for the intelligence used to justify the war, declassified an eight-page part of the NIE dubbed "key judgments" and conducted a lengthy background briefing with reporters to discuss it.“Key judgments" is the operative word here. They were declassified by Tenet in October of 2002, six days after the NIE was complete per the following information:
On October 7, 2002 DCI Tenet sent a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee declassifying portions of its new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.
More articles:
A 25-page version of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was released in October 2002. It made clear-cut statements about Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons capabilities in two pages of "Key Judgments."The American people needed to know these reservations, and I requested that an unclassified, public version of the NIE be prepared. On Oct. 4, Tenet presented a 25-page document titled "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs." - Statement of Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL).
A copy of the Key Judgments document can be found here. Warning: .pdf file.
As usual, the MSM gets it wrong.
McClellan is not only out of the loop, he is loopy.
Um, Scott, if the President authorizes the release of information, it's not a leak.
Get a dog Scotty. You’ll need a friend.
FYI: The Department of State is an Executive branch department. I suspect you mean it wasn't leaked by the White House.
“Leak” is the libs favorite word because it implies that there’s something secretly going on that was meant for the public.
LOL! Maybe we should send him a pork chop to hang around his neck...
ROTFLMAO! Thanks...I’m gonna steal that one to use when I post .pdf files in the future!
Go for it. Your “PDF warning” in the previous post inspired that. Just made it less than 10 minutes ago.
You are correct...my bad...altho it’s questionable whether Armitage knew who he was working for...
Secretly declassified? Ah, the nuances of non-rationality.
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