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.As George Bernard Shaw once said: "Neener neener neener."
"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."
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Toldja
My readers scoffed when I argued that -- contrary to the widespread impression -- McClellan did not implicate Bush in the Plame scandal. Now:
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These guys always have an out.
I think we are at the point where tie doesn't go to the runner.
gw bush committed an egregious act and should be held accountable.
our country is being manuevered into a lockdown police state where the mainstream press is part of the new "junta".
the more anyone stands up and attempts legal redress, the more at risk we are for cheney provoking Iran to attack the US so the folks running this country will stay in power and refuse to step down. We are at risk for more "natural disasters" to happen in CA. Notice how arson caused wildfires in Southern Calif took front page and bumped stories about Valerie Plame's new book and allegations about the WH's house to the back page.
Is is also just amazing how Americans don't take to the streets and protest except for a small "fringe" element after the last Presidential election was stolen, again.
The courts have been stacked with republican partisan appointees, it seems our justice system is damaged beyond repair.
It seems the current administration is hell bent not on running this great country but just the opposite: ruining and bankrupting this country and putting the wool over everyone's eyes as this do this with help from their media friends.
god help us from the hellbent neocons and a rightwing police state looming ahead.
happy thanksgiving everyone
Isn't Peter Osnos relying on hearsay? Further, whose mind is he claiming to be reading? McClellan's? Who's claiming to have read Bush's mind? Osnos or McClellan?
What's really cool is that we're witnessing a new kind of memoir writing/publishing gimmick based on teaser feedback: revisionism on the fly!
And: "He told him something that wasn't true, but the president didn't know it wasn't true," means the whole impeachment case falls to pieces since that's an iron-clad defense. Colin told the UN something that wasn't true, but he didn't know it wasn't true. Bush spoke 16 words in his SOTU address that weren't true, but he didn't know they weren't true. Bush told us that no one authorized torture, but he didn't know it wasn't true. Well, since impeachment's impossible, can't the APA and the AMA have him committed to an asylum? It only requires a doctor's say-so and a judge's approval.
I will say it again, over and over. The action of spilling a covert agent's name sent CIA officers scurrying out of many countries. Human beings who helped us lost their lives when Plame's name came out.
Calls went out to officers to scatter. Networks that took years to put in place were immediately finished.
It is very assuredly TREASON.... the question is WHO gave the order.
Doesn't gravity still go downhill????
The very fact that we are here 4 years after this act of treason was committed discussing whether or not this or that sentence means that maybe this or that person may have knowingly or unknowingly.... It boggles the mind.
Why has this case not be investigated by the House Judiciary Committee? Why have subpoenas of key White House aides been totally ignored? Why have the records of the special prosecutor not been made public?
Do we still believe that this administration has spent 6 years working feverishly to concentrate power in the Executive Branch so they could just let it go when the 2008 election doesn't go their way?
DL, read Marcy's latest on Plamegate at The Next Hurrah. I'm in awe of her.
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