My readers scoffed when I argued that -- contrary to the widespread impression -- McClellan did
not implicate Bush in the Plame scandal.
Now:
McClellan doesn't suggest that Bush deliberately lied to him about Libby's and Rove's involvement in the leak, said Peter Osnos, founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Books, which is publishing McClellan's memoir next year.
"He told him something that wasn't true, but the president didn't know it wasn't true," Osnos said in a telephone interview. "The president told him what he thought to be the case."
As George Bernard Shaw once said: "Neener neener neener."