Scott McClellan Takes On Bush And Rove

Posted by | May 27, 2008 23:22 | Filed under: Top Stories


The former White House press secretary has a new book out, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.  In it, he makes these claims:

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.”

• 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.

McClellan also goes after the administraton on management of the Katrina tragedy:

He writes, for example, that after Hurricane Katrina, the White House “spent most of the first week in a state of denial,” and he blames Rove for suggesting the photo of the president comfortably observing the disaster during an Air Force One flyover.

Get ready for the campaign against McClellan to begin.

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By: Alan

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