Posted on 05/28/2008 3:12:57 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey
Former White House Aide's Revelations Make Out Case for Obstruction of Justice by Rove and Libby in Valerie Plame Case
(Washington, DC) Today Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) called for former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify under oath regarding the devastating revelations made in his new book on the Bush Administration’s deliberate efforts to mislead the American people into the Iraq War.
“The admissions made by Scott McClellan in his new book are earth-shattering and allege facts to establish that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby – and possibly Vice President Cheney - conspired to obstruct justice by lying about their role in the Plame Wilson matter and that the Bush Administration deliberately lied to the American people in order to take us to war in Iraq. Scott McClellan must now appear before the House Judiciary Committee under oath to tell Congress and the American people how President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and White House officials deliberately orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq to the American people.”
“The allegations by this former top White House aide – that Rove and Libby deliberately coordinated their stories in order to obstruct justice in the Plame case, that the President deliberately disregarded contradictory evidence related to Iraq, should outrage every American and Congress must respond by initiating immediate aggressive oversight starting with an appearance by McClellan before the House Judiciary Committee. Any continued obstruction by this Administration to prevent White House officials from appearing before Congress cannot be tolerated by this Congress in the face of these shocking revelations.”
Congressman Wexler has led a nationwide campaign in favor of holding impeachment hearings for Vice-President Dick Cheney. Congressman Wexler is Chairman of the Europe Subcommittee and a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Judiciary Committee.
Boy....MSNBC is trying to figure out how to tie this to John McCain. Olberman trying right now...(eye roll)
Turning channel..I hate that guy!!
bump.
Create a dust cover for something about to break on Barack Obama?
Hmm... I'm willing to think out loud on this one...
I think there's a couple of things here-- actually, quite a number of things.
One is that Bush has the lowest polling of any President in history, which is a concern, except that Congress has a lower rating than even Bush. So, they don't feel they have anything to lose rehashing and rewriting history.
Second, the news from the war is overwhelmingly positive. You know that because you haven't heard anything about it for a while.
Three, the democrats look like complete and utter fools in the primaries, and for all of Hillary's front-end skullduggery trying to load the vote she's only screwed herself. Isn't that precious? I'm not even going to mention Howard Incapable Dean's role as a patsy (or worse) in this. Could this be some sort of DNC plot to wrest control of the party from the Clintons?
Could you write a better script for that scenario?
Barack Hussein Obama may be the great (black) hope, but he's got stink all over him. The issue of his Islamishness is debatable (by Islamic law, the son of an Islamist is always one). I expect the 'Swiftboaters' to have a field day with that.
But there's a trial wrapping up in Chicago over Tony Rezko, one of Barack's earliest political patrons (along with Bill Ayers). Rezko-runoff will probably bring down Illinois' governor, Rod Blagojevich. Obama and Rezko had a sweetheart real estate deal that smells, even by Chicago standards. Obama is endorsed by Richie Daley-- brother of Bill Clinton's last chief of staff, Bill Daley. Richie Daley is mortal enemies with Governor Blagojevich. Blagojevich is son-in-law of Daley's City Council rubber stamp, Richard Mell. Mell and Blago have a running public feud. It seems no one told Blago that the phone in the governor's office only dials in. He's been cut loose and is swinging in the wind. His own party AND the limp wristed Republicans are all after him.
Obama's campaign manager is Daley's number one political fixer, David Axelrod. Still with me?
Daley has more than a stake in this. He's angling to be the kingmaker, second only perhaps to Al Gore. And maybe not even him.
So Barack comes off as a snob when he's asked about his Rezko dealings-- too defensive by half. As if he's above the question. Wonder why? Hmm.
Obama is arguably 'un-American' by any definition: his God-Damn America pastor; his ties to Bill Ayers; his wife's purported taped racial statements that have yet to surface. His 'bitter Americans' guns and God remarks.
And his Dan Quayle-like misstatements... when is the MSM going to call him on '57 states' or his story that his uncle freed Buchenwald-- from the sea? Where's the dunce hat for Obama?
I think the Congressional democrats smell some blood in the water, but I'll predict right here that this will come to nothing: if McClellan goes under oath on the things in his book and he's found to be lying (think Dan Rather) it stands to reason that he'd face perjury charges. While they may make some hay against Bush (their ultimate goal being 'save Obama') my guess is Scott will be called in for an amiable chat when his book tour passes through DC, and Jon Stewart and Olbermann will slather over his salacious revelations and that will be the end of it.
But if you begin to think of this in the larger context of 'why is all this weird stuff going on?' you begin to think, hmmm...
Why is Hillary still in this, kicking and screaming and playing the fool? Why is she so persistent and pissing away her political capital? What does she know?
Scott McClellan's father published a book that claimed that LBJ was in on the JFK assassination. His mother came in 3rd in a field of 5 as Democratic candidate for governor of Texas. Why is anyone taking their son's lunatic ravings seriously?
Speaking of Scott, is this the thanks that Bush gets for his 'new tone'? And... if McClellan knew all this and felt it worthy enough to keep notes about, why didn't he spill the beans to the press back then? He certainly had the means and the connections, didn't he? Why now? Could it be that this was set up by Hillary to happen now, so that she could use it as talking points on her victory lap, going into the coronation? Are we seeing an unstoppable campaign event here? Publishing lead times are at least 8 months out...
Lost in all of this are the gymnastics that the left has to go through to keep their game alive. We're asked to believe that Hillary's contemptible behavior is something new, and wholly unconnected to her term as co-president. That we were wrong throughout the 90s about her and her husband. Think on that for a minute: we had her number all along, we tried to tell anyone who would listen, but we were 'the vast conspiracy'. So if we were right about the Clintons, are we wrong about Obama? Or anything, when you get down to it? If you're a thinking lefty-- a McCain Democrat, this has got to cause you to pause and consider...
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that Barack is, for reasons known and yet unknown unelectable. I think he's toxic. I think Hillary knows it, I think some folks 'in the know' are aware of it... and I think we're all going to know soon enough. I'm not saying McCain has it won-- I'm saying I think there's more to be seen and I think the DNC is very, very nervous. I think there's an epic struggle going on behind the scenes and Hillary's on the verge of playing the hand that deals a death blow to her party.
Ain't it great?
I just got off the phone with my daughter, she knows Scott McClellan, and she can’t believe that he did this. She says that he was such a die hard Republican that this will change his whole life. She says they must have paid him an awful lot of money to make him give up his whole life, as he knew it.
We still have freedom to change the channel and that’s good. But some of these liberals would like to require that we listen to only the mainstream media propoganda.
These liberals in Congress love to find any misdoing in a Republican administration, however they sooo easily overlook the wrongdoings of their own lib buddies, even the two who are running for President.
Aye, Aye. If they prove that he leaked the intell to the enemy, I’m all for hanging him. And along with him, hang all those others who have been deceiving the American public and working to destabilize our country. Hey, if that happenened, there wouldn’t be many left in Congress, would there?
My daughter knows Scott McClellan. She doesn’t think that he even wrote the book, she thinks that they just asked him questions and wrote it for him. She can’t believe that he would do this, even for the money. Republican politics were his whole life. She says that he’ll never be able to go back to Austin.
Did you know that his father, who was a big Democrat wrote a tell-all book as well, about LBJ and JFK?
I too would love for the son of one tough grammaw to testify under oath.
I suspect, however, that we will only hear CALLS for hearings, but that there will never actually BE any hearings.
Remembering some of Scotty’s miserable performances at the podium, it is very difficult to believe he could string together enough sentences to write an article, never mind a book.
My daughter said that he must have lost his mind. This is so unlike him. He was the office manager for a Texas state senator. Scott hired my daughter for her first job out of college. She says that he was a really nice guy with not much personality. She couldn’t believe that Bush hired him because he was just not suited to the job. She says that he was just kind of robotic.
The senator that they worked for had parkinson’s and Scott did most of the work, no make that just about all the work. He loved it, but didn’t have the personality to be a politician, himself.
My daughter figures that they just asked him questions and filled in the blanks, themselves. She said that he was just kind of robotic, not imaginative enough to write a book, but his Dad did it.
My daughter said that she doesn’t think that Scott even had any contact with his father, or many of his siblings, for that matter.
I noticed that Scotty’s brother is a fellow at the liberal Brookings Institution now, so Scotty will be feted at cocktail parties surrounded by all kinds of libs who despise him but will be happy to celebrate the treachery. How Scotty will live with himself is another question....
“I think this will be the hook the stalinists use to try to impeach Pres. Bush before his term is up.”
Their real intent is to hurt the Republicans at all levels in November. They could care less now about President Bush.
The impeachment proceedings hurt the Republicans more than the Dems. Clinton’s ratings went up because the American People seemed to think he was being picked on. We can only hope these hearings bring a similar rallying around the president.
Can't let fact interfere with this book.
How Scotty will live with himself is another question....
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That thought occured to me, too. He has a very limited future, and I will say prayers for him.
I honestly think McClellan was turned a long time ago. That is why he was so lousey at his job as WH press secretary!!
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If we were democrats we would say this every time SM’s name was mentioned.
Dems make up stuff constantly and then believe what they make up, repeat it endlessly, and report it as fact.
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