Former aide: Bush should tell all on CIA leak

[DeclinetoState]

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
7 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A former White House spokesman told Congress on Friday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney wanted him to say that Cheney's chief of staff wasn't involved in the leak of a CIA operative's identity, an assertion that turned out to be false.

Scott McClellan, Bush's spokesman from 2003-2006, said he had reservations about publicly clearing the name of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff at the time. Later, Libby was convicted of obstructing the investigation of the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity.

McClellan told the House Judiciary Committee that he doesn't know if a crime was committed in efforts to cover up the leak.

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[Rhino]

"This White House promised or assured the American people that at some point when this was behind us they would talk publicly about it," he said. "And they have refused to.

"And that's why I think more than any other reason we are here today and the suspicion still remains," McClellan told the panel.

McClellan said he does not believe Bush knew about or caused the leak. When asked about Cheney, he replied: "I do not know. There's a lot of suspicion there."1. They have talked publicly about it, on numerous occasions.

2. So, he attaches blame based on supposition alone. Sounds like a democrat.

[Wyatt_Junker]

This CIA leak shit has gone on too long. The only thing that will stop these diahrrea of lies at this point are beatings.

[DeclinetoState]

What possessed Bush to hire him in the first place?

[Taylor1]

This CIA leak shit has gone on too long. The only thing that will stop these diahrrea of lies at this point is dick cheney waterboarding people

lol.

[Naturalized-Texan]

Apparently Scott McClellan has been so out of touch with reality so long that he doesn't even know that everyone else in the world knows that Richard Armitage was the source that disclosed that Valerie Plame was a CIA analyst.

[TSawyer2112]

Apparently Little Mac felt it wasn't enough to be an absolutely ineffectual press secretary, so now he decides to be a back-stabbing sell-out. We can only hope he is angling for and gets a position on Obama's team.