Jun 20, 12:04 PM EDT
Former aide: Bush should tell all on CIA leak
By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former White House spokesman told Congress on Friday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney wanted him to say that Cheney's chief of staff wasn't involved in the leak of a CIA operative's identity, an assertion that turned out to be false.
Scott McClellan, Bush's spokesman from 2003-2006, said he had reservations about publicly clearing the name of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff at the time. Later, Libby was convicted of obstructing the investigation of the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity.
McClellan told the House Judiciary Committee that he doesn't know if a crime was committed. But he had harsh words for the White House, suggesting that the administration is continuing to cover up.
"This White House promised or assured the American people that at some point when this was behind us they would talk publicly about it," he said. "And they have refused to.
"And that's why I think more than any other reason we are here today and the suspicion still remains," McClellan told the panel.
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I understand Bush haters believe there is more to this story than there is, but there isn't.
McClellan admits he has no idea if any law was broken by individuals beneath the president, BUT he believes the president should address those issues. Yes, and perhaps he should discuss his feelings on McClellan's proclivity toward stealing pencils from the White House, maybe he should hold a summit to discuss whether or not the White House should change the light bulbs over to a lower wattage to save money. Maybe McClellan is an idiot and proves that the people who work in the White House are not always the brightest nor the most responsible. Any moment I am waiting for McClellan to come forward and tell the world that "Bush has a secret about UFOs." Further, that "Bush should come clean on UFOs" in order to "clear up the issue once and for all." When McClellan is pushed on the subject, pushed against the wall, he admits - Bush does not believe in UFOs. [I made the UFO bit up, but so did McClellan make up a bunch of his book, so no big diff]
Ooooh BIG SECRET, real need to come clean. Real need to take the presidency down a road it should not and must not go. After eight years of Clinton taking the presidency to new lows, we do not need a president who comments on every subject under the sun - utterly foolish.
On the issue of Plame - a former agent, then working inside CIA doing nothing work compared to what she had been doing. She was known, by nearly everyone who knew her - that she worked for CIA. She was so low on the totem pole and so unimportant as to be no more than the woman who collects the parts of briefings and puts them into a binder. Everyone in CIA knew that as did anyone who knew Plame. The only people who have made her out to be the female James Bond are Democrats and her husband.
This woman, who was so secret - publicly pushed to have her husband sent off to Niger looking for the uranium that Saddam was trying to purchase. She made it known she thought he should be the one, she was quite public about her advocacy of her husband, Joe Wilson. When Wilson went to Niger, he spent his time communicating with people who would communicate with him. he never left the city, he never queried people who might know, just those who were willing to speak - low level bureaucrats. He never spoke to the Deputy Foreign Minister, who less than a year after Wilson had left and returned to the US, revealed to the world in an interview, that Niger's government was aware that Iraq had been trying to secure the purchase of uranium.
Wilson was a fraud and worse, incompetent. His wife, a nothing at CIA, pushing to get her husband a job and money.
The only story here is that this is a story.
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