Posted on 06/09/2008 2:16:29 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
McClellan To Testify Before House WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Bush's former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.
McClellan will testify publicly and under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on June 20 about the White House's role in the leak and its response, his attorneys, Michael and Jane Tigar, said on Monday.
In his new book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan said he was misled by others, possibly including Cheney, about the role of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the leak. McClellan has said publicly that Bush and Cheney "directed me to go out there and exonerate Scooter Libby."
The statements prompted House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., to invite McClellan to the hearing "concerning reported attempts to cover up the involvement of White House officials in the leak of" Plame's identity.
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Perjury, Scott.
Perjury.
Scotty is such a dim bulb that he will wind up commmiting perjury big time. He’s trying to do battle with Darth Vader (Cheney) with only a pea shooter.
Scotty is more like Jar Jar Binks.
Will this foolishness never end...The one hearing I would welcome would be to see how many of those old coots in congress use a performance enhancing drug.... viagra
Under oath? Why would anyone expect McClellan to honor that as he has demonstrated he is without honor so what’s an oath to him.
A peculiar convergence had joined Armitage and me on the same historical path. During his quarter of a century in Washington, I had no contact with Armitage before our fateful interview. I tried to see him in the first 2 years of the Bush administration, but he rebuffed me — summarily and with disdain, I thought.
Then, without explanation, in June 2003, Armitage’s office said the deputy secretary would see me. This was two weeks before Joe Wilson surfaced himself as author of a 2002 report for the CIA debunking Iraqi interest in buying uranium in Africa.
This implies the leak was deliberate. Looks to me like a Armitage needs to be prosecuted (along with others) for an attempted coup against a sitting President.
I pray this scum bag makes the claim Cheney ordered him to release Plame’s name. He better have it in writing because if not Cheney should take this ass wipe to task and sue him into the next decade. Make him go into hock for the rest of his worthless life.
I’m more interested in the number, including Mutha, who are taking medication for dementia.
We should propose our own questions.
Here’s mine:
“Can you name anyone in the history of the office who was more inept at, or poorly suited for, your job, than you were?”
Scott,
There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.
In my nearly 36 years of public service I’ve known of a few like you. No doubt you will “clean up” as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, “Biting The Hand That Fed Me.” Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years.
I have no intention of reading your “exposé” because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job. That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively. You’re a hot ticket now but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?
BOB DOLE
Remember for every hearing these congresscritters attend they get paid, extra, beyond their salary, I’ve heard. We pay them to do injury to our country.
Honestly, can ANYONE envision someone as smart and savvy as V.P. Richard Cheney trusting this bed-wetting twerp with ANY material on a sensitive subject? I’ll bet he told the President not to hire him - The Veep probably had a good bead on him and knew what a disaster he’d be. Yes, the President hired him, but I’ll bet the Veep treated him like the mental chihuahua he considered him to be.
Just like the “content” of his book, all he’ll be able to say is that he read about it on a blog somewhere after he was fired.
Hee...I would love a real Republican member of the committee hinting about what happened to Scooter Libby while Little Lord Fauntleroy is testifying. I’m willing to bet he made the whole thing up. Now, of course, he’s got to do that incredibly inconvenient oath swearing thing.
Probably paid for by George Soros. He’s hardly the guy you want to drag up to Capitol Hill to site next to you during a Congressional hearing. If you really think you have a case or you want some heavy Washington legal muscle, you engage DeGenova or Toensig to at least ADVISE you during the hearing!
Osama bin Lawyer was not part of the discussions - and can’t testify unless he wants lawyer/client privilege thrown to fly away through the window.
Who cross examines? He will melt like a goose turd.
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