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Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House
By MIKE ALLEN |
5/27/08 6:18 PM EST
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a
surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President
Bush “veered terribly off course,†was not “open and forthright on
Iraq,†and took a “permanent campaign approach†to governing at the
expense of candor and competence.
Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What
Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of
Deception†(Public Affairs, $27.95):
• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda†to sell the war.
• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.â€
• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a
secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak
case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan
was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not
given him all the facts.
• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior
adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter†Libby, the vice president’s chief of
staff — “had at best misled†him about their role in the disclosure of
former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.
....
“One of the worst disasters in our nation’s history became one of the
biggest disasters in Bush’s presidency. Katrina and the botched federal
response to it would largely come to define Bush’s second term,†he
writes. “And the perception of this catastrophe was made worse by
previous decisions President Bush had made, including, first and
foremost, the failure to be open and forthright on Iraq and rushing to
war with inadequate planning and preparation for its aftermath.â€
....
McClellan also suggests that Libby and Rove secretly colluded to get
their stories straight at a time when federal investigators were hot on
the Plame case.
I have only been screaming this stuff, first on Blogster, then here on MyBloggers, since November of 2006 when I began blogging. I had heard it before, from true "liberal media", read the reports, because the INFORMATION WAS OUT THERE! So, how do Bush supporters feel about learning they were duped and assisted in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis based on a propaganda campaign, and ignored the treasonous act of the outing of a covert CIA operative? Most, probably still in their brain-dead denial...
this stuff.Money on the book?not making any sense to me.