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Bush 'involved' in CIA leak case
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by Yommie | November 21, 2007 at 07:12 am
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A former White House press secretary has said the US president was involved in misinforming the public over the leaking of a CIA agent's identity.In an excerpt from his book, Scott McClellan says George W Bush helped mislead the public over the role in the affair of two White House aides.
The CIA agent, Valerie Plame, says her identity was leaked because her diplomat husband opposed the Iraq war.
The White House said Mr Bush would not ask anyone to pass false information.
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at 06:05 on November 22nd, 2007
Sorry to disappoint you, but you are not keeping up with developments:
Publisher: McClellan doesn't believe Bush lied
Spokesman 'did not intend to suggest' the president purposely misled him
MSNBC News Services
updated 2:52 p.m. ET, Wed., Nov. 21, 2007 (Excerpt)
WASHINGTON - "Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan does not believe President Bush lied to him about the role of White House aides I. Lewis Scooter Libby or Karl Rove in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity, according to McClellan's publisher.
Peter Osnos, the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Books, which is publishing McClellan's book in April, tells NBC from his Connecticut home that McCLellan, "Did not intend to suggest Bush lied to him."
Osnos says when McClellan went before the White House press corps in 2003 to publicly exonerate Libby and Rove, the problem was that his statement was not true. Osnos said the president told McClellan what "he thought to be the case." But, he says, McClellan believes, "the president didn't know it was not true.""
Just some more tantalizing, confused nonsense from jerks trying to sell books to Kool-Aid drinkers.