Supposedly, this is an excerpt from Scott McClellan’s new book:
The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.
There was one problem. It was not true.
I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the president himself.
Yet another Bush lackey blowing the whistle when it’s too late. Did Scotty really “unknowingly” pass along false information? There is a rather simple equation that most of us had learned before Scotty even got his job. If Bush says it, there’s a 99% chance it’s a lie. If Rove, Libby, Cheney, Card and Bush all say it, there is absolutely no possibility that it is true. Does Scotty really expect us to believe he was so stupid he couldn’t figure this out?
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