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Subject: Bush's Plame-gate Cover Up of leaking a truthful agent's name and demonizing
her husband Ambassador Wilson
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"There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty
of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities."
Senator Sam Ervin
November 29, 2007 -- What did Bush know and when did he know it?
Hello from the Green Dog --
Do you recall who asked, "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
About 33-1/2 years ago, a Republican president who was facing impeachment by the House
of Representatives and conviction by the Senate was forced to resign because of the
unprecedented crimes he and his aides committed against the Constitution and American
people. Richard Nixon left office voluntarily because courageous real Republicans --
there were still quite a few in those days -- in Congress put principle above party and
defended the Constitution and the people and the rule of law.
"What did the president know and when did he know it?" a dyed-in-the-wool Republican
senator - Howard Baker of Tennessee - famously asked of Nixon.
A similiar question could be asked of George Bush because of what Scott McClellan, a
former White House secretary, wrote in his new book to be released next spring.
Referring to his involvement in the scandal that arose from the Bush-Cheney
administration's outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson to discredit her husband,
former Ambassador Joe Wilson, McClelllan wrote this, an excerpt recently released by his
book's publisher as part of a promotion:
"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." [1]
The question seems to be this: What did Bush know and when did he know it?
Did Bush and Cheney not only know that Rove, the administration's political czar, and
Libby, who served as Cheney's top aide, were involved in the scheme to attack Wilson's
credibility, but were they involved in the decision to do so or approve of it in
advance? That would mean that they were complicit or involved in the outing of a CIA
agent, a major breach of law and security.
If they were not involved in the scheme and only learned about it after it took place,
were they actively engaged in efforts to prevent the truth from coming out? Or did they
simply remain silent about something that they eventually learned? Either would equate
to Nixon's effort to cover up the Watergate and Watergate-related dirty tricks, which
amounted to obstruction of justice.
Were they involved before and after?
The collection of commentaries and analyses in this Green Dog are based upon the three
paragraphs from McClellan's book and consider in various ways and to various degrees the
preceding scenarios and more. Also, directly or indirectly, all the articles evoke the
"I" word and its possibilities and probabilities. [2] So does the article in the
Postscript, which recalls much more of what we've witnessed and endured during seven
long years of the Bush presidency.
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[1] -- See http://tinyurl.com/yvlyno -- GDD
[2] -- The "I" word was visited at some length in the 8/2/07 Green Dog. Read it at
http://tinyurl.com/2zlqnb -- GDD
Scott McClellan = John Dean?
By John Nichols
The Nation Online Beat
November 21, 2007
SCOTT McCLELLAN'S admission that he unintentionally made false statements denying the
involvement of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby in the Bush-Cheney administration's plot to
discredit former Ambassador Joe Wilson, along with his revelation that Dick Cheney and
George W. Bush were among those who provided him with the misinformation, sets the
former White House press secretary as John Dean to George Bush's Richard Nixon.
It was Dean's willingness to reveal the details of what described as "a cancer" on the
Nixon presidency that served as a critical turning point in the struggle by a previous
Congress to hold the 37th president to account.
Now, McClellan has offered what any honest observer must recognize as the stuff of a
similarly significant breakthrough.
The only question is whether the current Congress is up to the task of holding the 43rd
president to account.
McClellan's Revelation
What McClellan has revealed, in a section from an upcoming book on his tenure in the
Bush-Cheney White House, is a stunning indictment of the president and the vice
president. The former press secretary is confirming that Bush and Cheney not only knew
that Rove, the administration's political czar, and Libby, who served as Cheney's top
aide, were involved in the scheme to attack Wilson's credibility -- by outing the former
ambassador's wife, Valerie Plame, as a Central Intelligence Agency analyst -- but that
the president and vice president actively engaged in efforts to prevent the truth from
coming out.
"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," writes McClellan in
an excerpt from his book, What Happened, which is to be published next April by Public
Affairs.
"There was one problem," the long-time Bush aide continues. "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."
Felonious Action
Much has been made about the fact that outing Plame as a CIA operative was a felony,
since knowingly revealing the identity of an intelligence asset is illegal. And much
will be made about the fact that McClellan's statement links Bush and Cheney to the
cover-up of illegal activities and the obstruction of justice, acts that are themselves
felonies.
But it is important to recognize that a bigger issue is at stake. If Bush and Cheney
knowingly participated in a scheme to attack a critic of their administration -- Wilson
had revealed that the White House had been informed that arguments Bush and Cheney used
for attacking Iraq were ungrounded -- they have committed a distinct sort of offense
that the House Judiciary Committee has already determined to be grounds for impeachment.
In the summer of 1974, Democrats and Republicans on the committee voted overwhelmingly
to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon for having "repeatedly engaged
in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper
administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws
governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies."
That second article of impeachment against Nixon detailed the president's involvement in
schemes to use the power of his position to attack political critics and then to cover
up for those attacks.
Conyers and History
The current chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Michigan Democrat John Conyers, voted
for the impeachment of Nixon on those grounds.
Conyers and his colleagues need to recognize that, despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's
aversion to presidential accountability, McClellan's statement demands the sort of
inquiry and action that Dean's statements regarding Nixon demanded three decades ago.
As former Common Cause President Chellie Pingree notes with regard to Bush, "The
president promised, way back in 2003, that anyone in his administration who took part in
the leak of Plame's name would be fired. He neglected to mention that, according to
McClellan, he was one of those people. And needless to say, he didn't fire himself.
Instead, he fired no one, stonewalled the press and the federal prosecutor in charge of
the case, and lied through his teeth."
Pingree, a savvy government watchdog who is bidding for an open House seat representing
her native Maine, argues that the Judiciary Committee must subpoena McClellan as part of
a renewed investigation of the Wilson case.
She is right about that.
Administration's Questioned Legitimacy
She is right, as well, when she concludes that, if what McClellan says is true "it will
call into question the legitimacy of the entire administration. And we may see a
changing of the guard at the White House sooner than expected."
That changing of the guard -- via the Constitutional process of impeachment and trial
for their various and sundry high crimes and misdemeanor -- is long overdue.
John Nichols is the author of THE
<http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Impeachment-Founders-Cure-Royalism/dp/15...> GENIUS
OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founders' Cure for Royalism. Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson hails it
as a "nervy, acerbic, passionately argued history-cum-polemic [that] combines a rich
examination of the parliamentary roots and past use of the 'heroic medicine' that is
impeachment with a call for Democratic leaders to 'reclaim and reuse the most vital tool
handed to us by the founders for the defense of our most basic liberties.'"
Copyright C 2007 The Nation
http://www.thenation.com:80/blogs/thebeat?bid=1
<http://www.thenation.com:80/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=253417> &pid=253417
Bush's Plame-gate cover-up
By Robert Parry
Consortiumnews
November 21, 2007
IN EARLY fall 2003, George W. Bush joined in what appears to have been a criminal
cover-up to conceal the role of his White House in exposing the classified identity of
covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson.
That is the logical conclusion one would draw from a new statement by then-White House
press secretary Scott McClellan when it is put into a mosaic with previously known
evidence.
McClellan says Bush was one of five high-ranking officials who caused McClellan to lie
to the public in clearing Bush's political adviser Karl Rove and Dick Cheney's chief of
staff I. Lewis Libby of any responsibility for the leak of Plame's employment as an
undercover intelligence officer.
What McClellan Wrote
"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," McClellan said. "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."
McClellan's comments were part of a press release from his publisher regarding
McClellan's memoir, which is scheduled to reach the book stores next April.
The Smear Campaign
Though the press release didn't add more details about Bush's role, earlier evidence
already had implicated Bush in the outing of Plame after her husband, former U.S.
Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had gone public in July 2003, disclosing that Bush had used
false information to frighten the American people about Iraq's alleged nuclear program.
To discredit Wilson, Bush administration officials began telling reporters about Plame's
CIA job to suggest that an early 2002 investigation that Wilson undertook for the CIA
into reports about Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger was the result of
nepotism.
Though several reporters balked at blowing Plame's covert identity, right-wing columnist
Robert Novak revealed it in a column on July 14, 2003. It was later learned that Novak
was relying on information from Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and his
friend, Karl Rove. Libby and other White House officials had been peddling the same
information to other journalists.
At the time, the smear campaign represented a classic dirty trick by Bush's White House,
which was becoming famous for using hard-ball tactics against political adversaries.
However, this time, the collateral damage included the destruction of a sensitive
intelligence network that Plame managed.
CIA Protest
The case took another serious turn in September when CIA officials, angered by the
damage done to Plame's spy network, struck back. They lodged a complaint with the
Justice Department that the leaks may have amounted to an illegal exposure of a CIA
officer.
But the initial investigation was under the control of Attorney General John Ashcroft,
considered a right-wing Bush loyalist. So, Bush and other White House officials
confidently denied any knowledge of the leak. Bush even vowed to fire anyone who had
leaked the classified material.
"The President has set high standards, the highest of standards, for people in his
administration," McClellan said on Sept. 29, 2003. "If anyone in this administration was
involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration."
Bush personally announced his determination to get to the bottom of the matter.
"If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is," Bush said on
Sept. 30. "I want to know the truth. If anybody has got any information inside our
administration or outside our administration, it would be helpful if they came forward
with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true."
Concealed White House Role
Yet, even as Bush was professing his curiosity and calling for anyone with information
to step forward, he was withholding the fact that he had authorized the declassification
of some secrets about the Niger uranium issue and had ordered Cheney to arrange for
those secrets to be given to reporters.
In other words, though Bush knew a great deal about how the anti-Wilson scheme got
started - since he was involved in starting it - he uttered misleading public statements
to conceal the White House role.
Also, since the various conspirators knew that Bush already was in the know, they would
have read his comments as a signal to lie, which is what they did. In early October,
press secretary McClellan said he could report that political adviser Karl Rove and
National Security Council aide Elliott Abrams were not involved in the Plame leak.
That comment riled Libby, who feared that he was being hung out to dry. Libby went to
his boss, Dick Cheney, and complained that "they're trying to set me up; they want me to
be the sacrificial lamb," Libby's lawyer Theodore Wells later said.
Cheney's Scribbling and Scratching
Cheney scribbled down his feelings in a note to press secretary McClellan: "Not going to
protect one staffer + sacrifice the guy the Pres that was asked to stick his head in the
meat grinder because of incompetence of others."
In the note, Cheney initially was ascribing Libby's sacrifice to Bush but apparently
thought better of it, crossing out "the Pres" and putting the clause in a passive tense.
On Oct. 4, 2003, McClellan added Libby to the list of officials who have "assured me
that they were not involved in this."
So, Libby had a motive to lie to the FBI when he was first interviewed about the case.
He had gone to the mat with his boss to get his name cleared in the press, meaning it
would make little sense to then admit involvement to FBI investigators.
"The White House had staked its credibility on there being no White House involvement in
the leaking of information about Ms. Wilson," a federal court filing later noted. For
his part, Libby began claiming that he had first learned about Plame's CIA identity from
NBC's Washington bureau chief Tim Russert after Wilson had gone public.
Patrick Fitzgerald
This White House cover-up might have worked, except in late 2003, Ashcroft recused
himself because of a conflict of interest, and Deputy Attorney General James Comey
picked Patrick Fitzgerald - the U.S. Attorney in Chicago - to serve as special
prosecutor.
Fitzgerald pursued the investigation far more aggressively. Over the next three-plus
years, the Plame-gate affair would become a slow-growing infection eating away at White
House credibility, despite the best efforts of Bush's political and media allies to
confuse the issue or to shift the blame onto Wilson.
In October 2005, Fitzgerald indicted Libby on five counts of lying to federal
investigators and obstructing an investigation. Libby was convicted on four of five
counts in March 2007 and sentenced to 30 months in jail, but Bush commuted Libby's
sentence to spare him any jail time. That also eliminated any incentive for Libby to
turn state's evidence against Bush and Cheney.
Next Question
Now, however, McClellan has become the first White House insider to acknowledge the
original lies that senior administration told about the Plame-gate affair - and to put
the President in the middle of the cover-up.
The next question might reasonably be this: What are the Democrats in Congress going to
do about it?
[For more on this topic, see Consortiumnews.com's "
<http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/103107.html> Time to Apologize to Wilson/Plame" or
our new book, <http://www.neckdeepbook.com/> Neck Deep.]
Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press
and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush,
was written with two of his sons, Sam and Nat, and can be ordered at
<http://www.neckdeepbook.com/> neckdeepbook.com. His two previous books, Secrecy &
Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq and Lost History:
Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth' are also available there. Or go to
<http://www.amazon.com/Neck-Deep-Disastrous-Presidency-George/dp/18935...
105-6934069-6141258?ie=UTF8&qid=1189519378&sr=8-1> Amazon.com.
http://www.consortiumnews.com:80/2007/112007a.html
Did Bush ask Scott McClellan to lie -- or didn't he?
Former spokesman McClellan says someone in Bush administration made him spread "false
information."
Time for Congress to ask tough questions.
By Joe Conason
Salon
November 21, 2007
SCOTT McCLELLAN, the former Bush press secretary famed for his robotic stylings,
repetitive sophistry and rejection of candor, has at last turned on the powerful men who
made him. Evidently he now claims to have grown weary of playing the patsy for their
crimes and misdemeanors.
In a short, tantalizing excerpt from his forthcoming memoir posted on the Web site of
Public Affairs Press, McClellan complains that he was duped into misleading the public
and the media. Although the excerpt does not mention Valerie Plame, it clearly refers to
her whispered exposure as a CIA agent by ranking aides to President Bush and Vice
President Cheney:
"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."
Tardy Tittle-Tattle
McClellan is not the first insider to try to escape disgrace by expressing
disappointment, and presumably he won't be the last. All such tittle-tattle comes too
late to restore the honor of the confessors or repair the damage done. His book,
<http://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-Scott-Mcclellan/dp/1586485563/ref...
F8&s=books&qid=1195665228&sr=8-1> "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's
Wrong With Washington," proffers advice on government and politics that we probably can
live without.
By press time today, he had called his own probity into question again, in fact, when
his publisher partially retracted the incriminating excerpt in an
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aoeVzcoWZAqc&refe...> interview
with Bloomberg News. According to Peter Osnos of Public Affairs, McClellan didn't mean
to say that Bush deliberately lied to him about Libby's and Rove's involvement in the
Plame leak.
"[Bush] told him something that wasn't true, but the president didn't know it wasn't
true," said Osnos. "The president told him what he thought to be the case." How
McClellan knows what Bush knew at that time -- let alone how Osnos knows -- remains to
be explained. (Perhaps the former press secretary would speak more clearly and less
cutely under oath, as his predecessor did in the Plame grand jury.)
Full Investigation?
But despite this apparent stunt, McClellan's recollections have value because he reminds
us of important business that Congress has yet to complete: namely, a full investigation
of what Bush and Cheney knew about the outing of Plame, a veteran operative working to
stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and whether they indeed ordered that reckless act.
Highly suggestive information about Cheney's role in the scandal has long been available
in the public domain, which once encouraged speculation that he would be indicted by
special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. Plame was plainly a victim of Cheney's vendetta
against her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, who had protested the lies at the
center of the president's argument for war against Iraq.
Yet Libby took the fall, leaving Fitzgerald bereft of sufficient evidence to prosecute
the crime's suspected mastermind. After Libby was convicted and the president commuted
his prison sentence, Bush declared that the case had "run its course" and that he no
longer felt bound to find out what his subordinates had done and punish them, as he had
initially promised.
The Libby commutation silenced the only potential stool pigeon who could implicate his
bosses. Rove resigned without penalty, and Cheney sits in his office, mulling an attack
on Iran. The Washington press corps, which had brought so little investigative energy to
bear on the Plame case (except to speculate idly and stupidly about whether she was
actually a covert officer), accepted Bush's facile closure. So did most members of the
new Democratic Congress.
Unanswered Questions
But the damning questions remain unanswered.
Those questions date back to McClellan's first remarks on the subject, when he famously
said that the president would dismiss any official determined to be responsible for
leaking Plame's identity. "If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they
would no longer be in this administration. There's been nothing, absolutely nothing,
brought to our attention to suggest any White House involvement." Sworn testimony
eventually proved that the leakers included Libby, Rove, former Deputy Secretary of
State Richard Armitage, and McClellan's predecessor, former press secretary Ari
Fleischer. The same raft of evidence also indicated that Cheney orchestrated Libby's
leak to New York Times reporter Judith Miller.
Not only did Cheney oversee the activities of his chief of staff, but he actually
ordered McClellan to "clear" Libby in a press briefing on the case. A note in Cheney's
own handwriting, explaining why he insisted that the White House press staff should
defend Libby just as vigorously as Rove, was introduced as an exhibit at trial.
And that note, echoed in the excerpt from McClellan's book, implicated Bush in the
coverup.
Rove's Fault?
Cheney's furious scribbling said, "not going to protect one staffer + sacrifice the guy
this Pres. asked to stick his head in the meat grinder because of the incompetence of
others." The allusion to "incompetence" was a nasty dig at Rove, whom the vice president
evidently blamed for the clumsy execution of their conspiracy. Though Cheney had crossed
out the words "this Pres." and replaced them with the phrase "that was," his reference
to Bush was both legible and incriminating.
What did Cheney mean when he wrote those words? Why did he write that "this Pres." had
asked Libby to "stick his head in the meat grinder"? What did Bush know about the extent
of the vice president's involvement? When did he discover what Cheney, Libby, Rove and
Fleischer had done? Or was he in on the scheme from the beginning?
Several months ago I noted that both Congress and the press ought to ask the president
and the vice president to release the transcripts of their interviews with Fitzgerald
and his staff. Those documents remain highly relevant. The special prosecutor
interviewed Bush and Cheney during the summer of 2004, according to published reports.
Even if Bush was not under oath during those sessions, to which he was accompanied by
private counsel, both he and Cheney were still obligated by law to answer the
prosecutor's questions honestly. It seems most unlikely that they did, if McClellan's
accusation is to be believed.
Dodd's Demand
Yesterday, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., demanded that Attorney General Michael Mukasey
immediately open a new investigation of the Plame case. Calling the book excerpt "very
disturbing," Dodd said, "If in fact the President of the United of States knowingly
instructed his chief spokesman to mislead the American people, there can be no more
fundamental betrayal of the public trust."
To demonstrate his independence, Dodd added, the nation's new chief law enforcement
officer must seek to "determine the facts of this case, the extent of any cover-up and
determine what the President knew and when he knew it." He's right. So when will the
rest of the Democrats -- and honest Republicans -- speak up?
Copyright C2007 Salon Media Group, Inc.
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The press dog that didn't bark
By John Dickerson
Slate
November 21, 2007
THOUGH Scott McClellan served as White House press secretary for three years, his words
were perhaps never so closely picked over as they were this week. He's working on a
memoir of his time in the White House, and his publisher offered a little
<http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?...
&view=excerpt> peek about the moment when he unwittingly took part in covering up the
role Bush administration officials played in outing undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Here's what McClellan said:
"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."
McClellan and Dean
Many people responded to this by going bonkers, suggesting that McClellan was fingering
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Chief of Staff Andy Card in the cover-up that followed
the disclosure of Plame's covert status. He was compared to John Dean, who blew the
whistle on Richard Nixon. The AP headline read, "Former Aide Blames Bush for Leak
Deceit."
Though many former Bush aides remain loyal, McClellan could in fact be a candidate for a
tell-all. After news broke Plame's identity had been revealed in the summer of 2003, it
was McClellan who played a key role in exonerating Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. In
October 2003, he stood at the press room podium and said they were not involved. When it
became obvious that was untrue, McClellan spent months stonewalling for the
administration, refusing to address questions about the case. His credibility
deteriorated with each appearance. Reporters started asking whether McClellan had lied
when he gave his original denial or had been lied to. Before leaving his post in 2006,
he answered that question <http://www.slate.com/id/2128820/> , explaining that Libby and
Rove had not been straight with him.
Skepticism
When the book excerpt came out Tuesday, I was
<http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/21/ltm.01.html> skeptical because
McClellan said the five administration officials had been "involved" in putting out the
bogus information. The word was too vague. It could have meant many different things.
With respect to Rove and Libby, McClellan was already on the record saying that they'd
misled him. But was he now saying the same thing about Bush, Cheney and Card? If so, why
didn't McClellan just say so? I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five
of the highest ranking officials in the administration knew it. That would be big news,
indeed.
The reason McClellan chose the vague language is that he isn't saying in his book that
the top officials were involved in the cover-up - at least not all of them. "What Scott
is saying is that it was clear that he was given information that was wrong," says
McClellan's publisher, Peter Osnos. "Two of the people, Rove and Libby, knew it was
wrong. But he has no reason to believe that the president didn't think it was true. Andy
Card did not think it was wrong. It's kinda ambiguous about Dick Cheney." (It's always
that way with the vice president.)
So, despite the uproar, McClellan's excerpt pretty much tells us what we already knew
about the roles of the key players during the relevant two weeks in October. Bush,
Cheney, and Card may have been involved in pressing McClellan to push the story, but, as
far as McClellan knows, those three were doing so because they too had been misled by
Rove and Libby (with possible fuzziness here about McClellan's view of Cheney).
The Larger Point
Lost in the excitement is this larger point: Even if the president, the vice president,
and Card didn't know that McClellan was lying during those two October weeks, they
certainly knew afterward that his stalwart defense had become inoperative, as reports
surfaced that Libby and Rove had talked about the matter with reporters. And if they
didn't know for sure, they should have cared enough to find out when it became clear
that Libby and Rove were not as innocent of Plame's outing as they first claimed. Bush,
Card, and Cheney never did much to figure out what the real story was. Nor did they step
in to clear McClellan's name - the decent kind of thing you do in an administration that
prizes loyalty. People may say Bush lives in a bubble, but he wasn't oblivious to the
yawning contradiction between what McClellan had said on his behalf and what was turning
out to be true.
For McClellan, perhaps there's a delicious payback in the intense interest in his book
(never mind if, so far, much of it is unearned). He had to spend many months emitting
blurry answers that protected his colleagues at his expense; now he gets to generate a
little buzz and maybe profit from a little vagueness himself.
2007 Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC
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Treason is not old news
By Joe and Valerie Wilson
The Huffington Post
November 22, 2007
I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the
name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors." -- George
Herbert Walker Bush, CIA dedication ceremony, April 26, 1999.
WHEN BUSH administration officials I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Karl Rove, Richard Armitage
and Ari Fleischer betrayed Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as a covert CIA operations
officer, they fell into the category of "the most insidious of traitors."
Now we learn from the president's former press secretary, Scott McClellan, that the
president himself "was involved" in sending him out to lie to the American public about
the betrayal. If his direction to McClellan was deliberate and knowing, then the
president was party to a conspiracy by senior administration officials to defraud the
public. If that isn't a high crime and misdemeanor then we don't know what is. And if
the president was merely an unwitting accomplice, then who lied to him? What is he doing
to punish the person who misled the president to abuse his office? And why is that
person still working in the executive branch? Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald made
clear his suspicions about the culprit when he said "a cloud remains over the office of
the vice president." But we may never know exactly what happened because George W. Bush
thwarted justice and guaranteed the success of the cover-up when he commuted Scooter
Libby's felony sentence on four counts of lying, perjury and obstruction of justice.
Notable Exceptions
With the exception of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and the intrepid David
Shuster, the mainstream media would have you believe that McClellan's revelation is old
news. "Now back to Aruba and the two-year old disappearance of a blond teenager." But
treason is not old news. The Washington press corps, whose pretension is to report and
interpret events objectively, has been compromised in this matter as evidence presented
in the courtroom demonstrated. Prominent journalists acted as witting agents of Rove,
Libby and Armitage and covered up this serious breach of U.S. national security rather
than doing their duty as journalists to report it to the public.
So far there is no apparent desire for redemption driving the press to report on the
treachery of senior officials. Instead, the mainstream press has compounded its
complicity by giving the Bush administration yet another free pass and shifting blame.
The New York Times failed to publish an article on McClellan's revelation and The
Washington Post buried it at the end of a column deep on page A-15 in the newspaper.
Earlier in the week, Newsweek magazine, owned by the Washington Post Company, proudly
announced the identity of its new star columnist -- Karl Rove, one of the key actors in
this collective treason. Robert Novak, who willfully disclosed Valerie's identity,
having been twice warned not to do so by the CIA, and who transmitted his column to Rove
before it was published, remains a regularly featured columnist in The Washington Post.
The Wrong Track
With nearly 70 percent of the public now believing that our country is on the wrong
track, it is no wonder that many feel let down by major institutions, including the
Washington press establishment that increasingly resembles the corrupt Soviet propaganda
mill. One reporter from a major news organization even asked whether McClellan's
statement wasn't just "another Wilson publicity stunt." Try following this tortuous
logic: Dick Cheney runs an operation involving senior White House officials designed to
betray the identity of a covert CIA officer and the press responds by trying to prove
that the Wilsons are publicity seekers. What ever happened to reporting the news?
Welcome to Through the Looking Glass.
Fearful of its access to the powerful, and defensive about its status in the high school
social culture that permeates the capital of the Free World, much of the press has
forgotten its responsibility to the public and the Constitution.
Missing Outrage
Presidents and those who aspired to be president in the past once took strong positions
in defense of U.S. national security. Today, Republican presidential candidate Fred
Thompson has tried to build his support through fronting for the Scooter Libby Defense
fundraising efforts. Meanwhile, other Republican candidates accuse Patrick Fitzgerald of
being "a runaway prosecutor" and remain silent about the stain on Bush's presidency.
Where is the outrage? Where is the "contempt and anger?"
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Why do 'liberal media' go so easy on Bush?
By Dave Zweifel
The (Madison, Wisc.) Capital Times
November 26, 2007
WE SAW another example last week of the double standard that permeates so much of
America's media these days, the media that so many conservatives claim are "too
liberal."
A sneak peek at former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's
soon-to-be-published book reveals that virtually every bigwig in the Bush administration
passed along lies about who was involved in outing CIA agent Valerie Plame -- including
the president himself.
McClellan in 2003 stood at the White House press room podium and said that neither Karl
Rove nor Scooter Libby, the two most senior aides to George Bush and Dick Cheney, had
anything to do with leaking to several members of the press that Plame was an undercover
CIA agent. She was exposed in an apparent retaliation for a guest column her husband,
former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had written for the New York Times, claiming that Bush
had lied about Iraq's nuclear capabilities in his State of the Union address.
Lies and More Lies
As it later turned out, not only was Bush's speech a lie, but McClellan's defense of
Rove and Libby was also an outright lie. McClellan's memoir, to be published next
spring, claims that five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were
involved in his telling that lie to the press and the rest of the nation: Rove, Libby,
the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.
But the McClellan excerpts got little play last week in our so-called anti-George Bush
liberal media.
Contrast that with what would have undoubtedly happened had the president been Bill
Clinton.
Outrage and Investigations
Not only would Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter have begun a 24/7 feeding frenzy,
but every TV network and big city daily newspaper would have carried major stories about
the president being fingered in another lie.
Wisconsin's own intellectual giant of a congressman, James Sensenbrenner, would have
insisted on the House Judiciary Committee calling for an investigation that would surely
lead to impeachment proceedings.
They did all that, after all, when Bill Clinton was caught lying about messing around
with a White House intern. Had Bill Clinton lied his way into starting a war and then
instructed his press secretary to tell the American people lies about underhanded
dealings by his staff, the Washington politicians and the national press would have run
the man out of town on a rail.
Old Repetitive News?
Perhaps this administration has lied to the American people so many times that it
doesn't qualify as news anymore.
But, I say again, if a president can be impeached for lying about an extramarital
affair, then why aren't we impeaching a president who lied to his country to start a war
that is soon to have lasted five long years?
Dave Zweifel is editor of The Capital Times. dzwei...@madison.com
C 2007 Capital Newspapers
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McClellan admission evokes memories of Nixon era
By DeWayne Wickham
USA Today
November 27, 2008
THIS TRAIL is starting to look familiar. When an excerpt from the soon-to-be-released
book by former presidential press secretary Scott McClellan revealed that George W. Bush
and Dick Cheney instructed him to tell journalists that top White House aides played no
role in the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson, I had an eerie feeling that the nation had
been down this path before.
In discussing a 2003 press briefing during which he told reporters that Karl Rove, the
president's political adviser, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff,
had nothing to do with the leak, McClellan says he was misled. "There was one problem,"
he wrote of what he told journalists that day. "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 (Andrew Card) and the president himself," McClellan writes.
This blurb from What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with
Washington, is posted on the website of its publisher, Public Affairs Books. [1]
Lies and Leaked Secrets
We now know that Plame Wilson's identity as a CIA undercover operative was leaked to
reporters by at least two Bush administration officials, Libby and then-deputy secretary
of State Richard Armitage. The Bush administration did so to undermine the credibility
of her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador who was sent to Niger by the CIA to
determine whether Saddam Hussein was trying to buy a nuclear weapons component from the
African nation. After his trip, Wilson concluded that this charge wasn't true and
publicly criticized Bush for making such an unsubstantiated claim one of his rationales
for invading Iraq. The White House responded by leaking Plame Wilson's identity and
suggesting that Wilson's trip was a junket arranged by his wife.
In March, Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice, lying to a grand jury and to
FBI agents investigating the leak of Plame Wilson's identity. Libby was sentenced to 30
months in prison, but Bush commuted his prison time.
Seedy Path Redux
The seedy path taken by Bush's aides looks a lot like one taken by another White House.
In 1971, a group of advisers close to Richard Nixon decided to go after people they
considered opponents of that Republican president. The people whose names made it onto
that "opponents' list" were targeted for retribution in much the same way that the Bush
administration went after Wilson. As Nixon White House counsel John Dean said at the
time, "We can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies." And,
in fact, Nixon's henchmen tried to use the Internal Revenue Service to do just that.
Bush's minions took a similar road. They used information secretly gained from the CIA
to strike at one of Bush's "enemies" -- and to publicly use the president's press
secretary to deny any role in this act of retribution.
Nixonian Political Abyss
When the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon in 1974 (he resigned before
the full House could vote on the resolution), it accused him of, among other things,
trying to misuse the IRS to attack his enemies -- and using his subordinates to make
"false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the
United States" about the White House involvement.
While there is still little evidence to suggest that Bush was knowingly involved in this
coverup, the evidence against Dick Cheney is piling up. It came out during Libby's trial
that Cheney authorized him to leak Plame Wilson's identity to journalists. And now we
hear from McClellan that Cheney duped him into telling other reporters that the White
House didn't have its hands in this matter. This trail of lies and deception has put
Cheney on the same path that led to Nixon's impeachment. And it may yet cause Cheney to
tumble into the same political abyss.
DeWayne Wickham writes on Tuesdays for USA TODAY.
Copyright 2007 USA TODAY
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Postscript
Good riddance to them all
By Joseph L. Galloway
McClatchy Newspapers
November 21, 2007
THERE WAS little for the unindicted co-conspirators of the Bush administration to give
thanks for this week as the clock winds down on the 14 months they have left in power.
With former White House press secretary Scott McClellan spilling the beans on who told
him to lie to the American people and cover up the White House's responsibility for the
criminal act of revealing the identity of a covert CIA officer, it clearly was time for
some folks to begin drafting their requests for presidential pardons.
McClellan, in a forthcoming book that will tell some, if not all, reveals that his 2003
statements absolving top White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of any
involvement in leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame were untrue - and that
the orders to make those statements came from George Bush, Dick Cheney, White House
chief of staff Andrew Card, Rove and Libby.
Inoperative Statement
McClellan's revelation makes it abundantly clear that a subsequent statement by Bush
that White House aides had no involvement in outing Ms. Plame, and that anyone who did
would be fired was also, shall we say, inoperative.
It also confirms long-held suspicions that the whole despicable affair - an attempt to
punish former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for debunking a bit of the bogus intelligence the
administration wheeled out to justify invading Iraq - was orchestrated in the offices of
Bush and Cheney, and with their knowledge.
It also might shed new light on why Bush quickly commuted Cheney's hatchet man Libby's
prison sentence after he was convicted on four counts of lying to federal investigators.
It simply wouldn't do to have Libby rolling over on his bosses.
More Revelations?
Somehow, I have a strong feeling that this isn't the only or the last revelation of
wrong-doing and criminality that we're likely to hear before and after Bush and Co.
leave office, or that additional presidential acts of clemency will be needed to spare
other top administration officials from prison and buy their silence.
What we've witnessed and endured during seven long years of the Bush presidency is the
inevitable consequence of bringing vicious and unprincipled but successful political
campaigners - attack dogs - into top White House jobs.
The idea that a political campaign should address any and all criticism by going for the
throats of those who dare to question it may work on election day but it doesn't work,
or shouldn't, when the full weight and power of the federal government is put behind it.
We are a better people and this is a better country than that, and this is why, when
it's weighed and judged, the Bush presidency will be found to have perverted not only
our system but also the very principles on which our nation was founded.
American No-No's
We don't rush into a war that has cost so many lives and so much national treasure, and
has so damaged our standing in the world, based on a tissue of lies. But under the
leadership of George W. Bush, that's what we did in Iraq.
We don't stand idly by, backs turned and eyes closed, while in wartime our friends and
political contributors loot the national treasury of billions of taxpayer dollars. But
the Bush administration and a Republican-controlled Congress did just that.
We don't send our soldiers and Marines into combat without enough of everything they
need to fight, survive and win. But that's what this administration and its political
operatives in charge of the Pentagon did.
More No-No's
We don't turn the office of the attorney general and key parts of the Justice Department
into a branch of a partisan political campaign - gutting offices charged with protecting
the civil rights of minorities and directing the prosecution of those of a different
political party - but this administration did.
We don't declare war and then expect that the entire sacrifice will be borne by the half
a percent of our population who wear uniforms. We don't fight a long and costly war by
cutting taxes on the wealthiest Americans and borrowing trillions of dollars to finance
it from foreign competitors such as China. But this administration did.
We don't prosecute a war to spread democracy by curtailing democracy and suspending the
Bill of Rights at home. We cannot promote our principles abroad by denying the same
principles - the right to a lawyer, the right to a fair trial, the right to be secure in
our homes - to ourselves. But this administration did.
Still More No-No's
We don't beat or torture confessions out of prisoners in violation of our laws and the
laws of the civilized world. We don't lock people up and hold them incommunicado for
years without charges or trials. But this administration did and does.
We don't applaud and cheer an administration and a Congress that make the rich vastly
richer, the middle class less secure and the poor even poorer. But this administration
has done just that, in violation of our principles and the principles of love, peace and
charity that are engrained in the Christianity that these rogues and charlatans embrace
so publicly but violate every day.
It will be a good day when they are gone, and good riddance to them all.
Copyright C 2007 The McClatchy Company
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