Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House

[dbackjon]

Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House

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.”

• 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.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200805 ... tico/10649

[dbackjon]

The fallout from this book is going to outstanding!

[AZGrizFan]

Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House

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.”

• 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.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200805 ... tico/10649

Shocking. Propoganda? On the war? Seriously?

[travelinman67]

bump

[BigApp]

this will eventually be exposed for what it is: A Money Grab

and the lunatic fringe will be more than happy to give him $$$.

[Col Hogan]

this will eventually be exposed for what it is: A Money Grab

and the lunatic fringe will be more than happy to give him $$$.

Funny, a Bush loyalist writes a book...and tells the truth...and is slammed...it's a "money grab"...

If he had slurped the Administration, you'd be hanging on baited breath for more...he'd be a hero...

[dbackjon]

And when ex-Clintonistas right tell-all books, the Right wing goes nuts slurping their balls...



Every ex-Bush aide book has said the same thing - Bush lied to us. Coincedence or truth??

[BigApp]

Funny, a Bush loyalist writes a book...and tells the truth...and is slammed...it's a "money grab"...

If he had slurped the Administration, you'd be hanging on baited breath for more...he'd be a hero...

nice try but, no. This guy slammed, what was the dudes name, (Richard Clarke?) for writing a book and saying it was a money grab...a few years later he does the exact same thing. Just using his own words against him.

Just watch which TV shows he goes on to promote this book. That'll tell you all you need to know.

[coastal89]