Publisher: McClellan doesn't believe Bush lied

Source: MSNBC

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."

Osnos says the quotes which appeared on the Public Affairs Books website were part of the roll out of the book catalogues for the spring printings. And he says McClellan had not finished the manuscript for the memoir yet and was working under deadline to have the book completed for the April publishing.



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As someone so aptly posted in GD - Scotty must've woken up with a bloody horse's head in his bedsheets!

Riiiiiiggggggghhhhhttttt!:sarcasm:

by these criminals. The 'ol rear end tends to pucker up real tight when these people come after you. McClellan would have never lived long enough to testify before COngress anyway so it probably doesn't matter. No doubt he would be suicided and the story being he left his job because of "severe mental problems" and was extremely depressed ever since, or so the story would go.

Bwaaa ha ha ha ha. Republicons and lies go together like turkey and stuffing...always together.

that will be Scotty, furiously backpedaling.

:rofl:

We'll see how they parse the language.

-- Louis J Sheehan

that was quick. The recanting ritual begins...

The President is ALWAYS out of the loop. If anything ugly happens, he was in Russia when it happened and he never was informed. He's always the dumb guy out.

If the President is always out of the loop on important things like CIA leaks from the administration, why have him as a president? Why not just deal directly with his underlings who, according to this theory of blame, are really the ones who know if they're telling the truth or not? We can't get Bush because he doesn't know...yet we're supposed to accord him the holy deference of commander-in-chief in charge of things.

A commander-in-chief who doesn't know things.

Bush in a sentence.

OR....

we don't believe the bullshit and call for his his impeachment

I'm going with option 2

Is it normal to quote from a book that hasn't been completely written yet?

:eyes:
rocknation

Neocons everywhere are drooling and getting ready to pitch tents outside Barne's & Noble.

And I'd think true neocons would be more inclined to see Scott as a traitor and reject the book.

The publisher can't possibly be so naive or incompetent as to think Scott's statement was benign. But Scott might be that vengeful.

By the way, WHY is the publisher doing all the talking? Scott can talk and write, obviously. Why isn't he explaining his OWN intentions?

I know there's no such thing as bad publicity, but this case might be the exception.

:headbang:
rocknation

Dubya also said:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/09/20030930-9.html">"If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of."

- Oh. Wait. I stand corrected. They were "taken care of." He pardoned Scooter....

about the horse head, that is...

:rofl:

Oh Brother.:eyes:

Things are getting too hot here on parallel universe earth. Caligula's running the place.

always was. A stupid stupid man.