Scott McClellan makes news at Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera | 6/20/08

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Ex-Bush aide critical of CIA 'leak'

Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman, has again criticised Bush administration officials for their role in covering up a leak that revealed a CIA operative's identity.

McClellan told a congressional commitee on Friday he had reservations about publicly clearing Lewis "Scooter" Libby, an aide to Dick Cheney, over the leak, a claim that proved to be untrue.

"I was reluctant to do it,'' McClellan told the Democratic party-led House Judiciary Committee.

"I got on the phone with Scooter Libby and asked him point-blank, 'Were you involved in this in any way?' And he assured me in unequivocal terms that he was not."

Libby, the vice-president's former chief of staff, was later convicted of obstructing the investigation into the leak and received a two-and-a-half year prison sentence, although that was commuted by George Bush, the US president.

Valerie Plame, the CIA operative, says the White House leaked her identity as retribution for criticism from her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former US diplomat, of Bush's reasons for going to war in Iraq.

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Here is the link

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/06/2008620164637450156.html

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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/06/2008620164637450156.html

[HangThemHigh]

Was Plame indeed undercover according to the terms of the law?

Last I heard was hat she hadn’t been out of the country in 5 years and didn’t meet the requirements of the law to qualify as undercover.

[MNJohnnie]

Guess people should actually try listening to what Scotty said. He "discovered" all his "information" after he left the White House and was told by Soros connected publisher no one wanted to buy a pro Bush/ Media bashing book.

? It about the money not about the facts.

[april15Bendovr]

Al Jazeera?

First Murtha now McClellan

[Billthedrill]

Hooboy - al J's sort of on the "C" list when it comes to authors flacking books. What's next, My Weekly Reader? There's a gurgling sound in the background and McClellan's got that spinning sensation that happens when somebody hits the flush lever. See ya, bud.

[Normal4me]

GUILTY but FREE.....

[blueyon]

Libby, the vice-president’s former chief of staff, was later convicted of obstructing the investigation into the leak and received a two-and-a-half year prison sentence, although that was commuted by George Bush, the US president.

I did not know this. If Pres. Bush commuted Libby’s sentence that is great! I have never seen such a lynching as what Libby received. Is this story for real?

[april15Bendovr]

"Was Plame indeed undercover according to the terms of the law?"

I'm not so sure Al Jazeera will ever be an authority on that topic but the liberals don't mind being quoted there.

[april15Bendovr]

“Is this story for real?”

Yes but I posted it more for comic relief.

Its “Al Jazeera” the Democrats favorite place to help terrorists with their propaganda.

[mkjessup]

I did not know this. If Pres. Bush commuted Libby’s sentence that is great! I have never seen such a lynching as what Libby received. Is this story for real?

What planet have you been visiting FRiend?

Yes, Bush commuted Libby's sentence, but border patrol agents Ramos and Compean are still rotting in federal prison, despite growing evidence of the corruption of Johnny Sutton, the U.S. Persecutor who railroaded them into jail. Sutton, referred to by our illustrious President as 'a dear friend', has yet to account for his misdeeds.

As an afterthought, Libby should never have been put on trial in the first place, and if Patrick Fitzgerald had not been given a blank check to investigate a crime which was never a crime in the first place, none of this would have happened, and Scotty-boy would have had to delete a few pages from his 3rd grade style rat-fink book.

[gusopol3]

comic relief

aid and comfort to the enemy?

[Minn]

It’s ridiculously obvious that two miscreants colluded to blow Plame’s cover: Plame and Wilson. They and they alone (with the possible exception of other CIA moles) are solely responsible.

[april15Bendovr]

What I am saying is Al Jazeera quoting Democrats and McClellan is in fact a sad joke. This anti-American news agency article doesn't speak well of McClellan's or even would ever mention his real agenda.

There is irony in that Al Jazeera has found a new Republican friend who agrees with the Democrats. The comic relief arrived in the form of McClellan becoming another useful idiot for terrorists. He could end up being the next theme of another Michael Moore movie?

The laughter is that McClellan became a Dixie Chick to profit from his book. He really was a nobody in the Bush Administration that was hired as a family favor as he turned out being the worst Press Secretary in U.S. History.

I hope I don't have to explain or go any further than that?

[kublia khan]

“I got on the phone with Scooter Libby and asked him point-blank,”

I think I know how that phone call started;
Libby to Scotty beam me up.
Scott?? Scott McClellahan oh McClellan, my apology and you work for who????

[kublia khan]

“I got on the phone with Scooter Libby and asked him point-blank,”

I think I know how that phone call started;
Libby to Scotty beam me up.
Scott?? Scott McClellahan oh McClellan, my apology and you work for who????

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Or how much his Liberal Mommy brainwashed er...encouraged him......

[Lancey Howard]

McClellan is a bed wetter, there’s not a doubt in my mind.

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I had the pleasure of having a conversation with Robert Novak while in Manchester NH being apart of a Frank Luntz group during the debates.

He joked with me about a segment of Clintonistas and Commies that work for the CIA that need to go.

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"McClellan is a bed wetter, there’s not a doubt in my mind."

Agree 100%