Scott McClellan Grabs A Seat At The Former-Bush-Aide-Turned-Author Table

Long before the White House Press Corps became saddled with Dana "The Gift That Keeps On Giving" Perino, they got to receive their briefings from Scott "The Gift That Gave As Well As He Could Given The Relative Lack Of Confidence He Had In Just About Everything He Was Ever Asked To Say" McClellan. McClellan stepped down from the position in May of 2006, and has since penned a book that will finally allow him to do what he never could as press secretary: tell all.

Public Affairs, who will be publishing the book, has posted this excerpt, which gives one a helping of insight into how McClellan views his years of service:

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.

McClellan's book is titled What Happened, after the question he muttered to himself every night before the clutches of fitful sleep claimed him, and is scheduled for an April 2008 release.

UPDATES:
The Politico notes that McClellan intimated in a March 2007 appearance on Larry King Live that the President "did not originally know about the involvement by his aides."

McClellan: "I spoke with those individuals, ... and those individuals assured me they were not involved in this. ... said what I believed to be true at the time. It was also what the president believed to be true at the time based on assurances that we were both given. Knowing what I know today, I would have never said that back then."

Comments

[mamacat]

So its official. The Commander-in-Chief committed treason.
And the son of a bitch has the gall to call those who oppose him unpatriotic. He's no better than Benedict Arnold.

[mudfiles]

Too little, too late, bud. Way to show your patriotism when we can't do anything about it.

[totalliberal]

G W:

"This here guy is fulla shit. Heh heh.

He's lyin an not even gettin paid anymore, heh heh."



(For all those who miss John Stewart, heh heh.)

[Balzac]

This should be the headline, not Hillary and Obama.

[angel66]

So Kucinich is looking less crazy now?

[JoanneS]

I'm shocked, shocked.

[R2D2]

Impeachment- Hell No!

Those spineless Democrats dont impeach-They spent 6 years watching the Whitewater waterboarding of the Clintons.

[BetterDeadthanRedState]

Oh, Scott. We knew you were lying, and now we know that you knew you were lying, too. Confession is good for the soul, but there's only so much you can do.

[BeerHolder]

Just wait till the smear campaign begins which will be any minute.

Actually Scott went on John Stewart months ago and told about being lied to. What he did was wrong and bad but at least he's talking about it.

It really is the fault of every American that this administration has been able to get away with so much crime. If the American people would take charge of their country and pay attention to the electoral process, people like Bush wouldn't get elected in the first place.

[Stacygs]

Once a month, my 8 year old's homework includes a saying, the meaning of which he has to explain. A few weeks ago, it was "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem." He's only eight, but he got it. Scott apparently doesn't get it, and writing this book does not absolve him of his complicity.
He knew what he was doing at the time, and willingly turned a blind eye to it. Even an eight year old can see that. Shame on all of them.
Adding insult to injury, he now stands to profit from his misadventures.

[researcher]

like rats leaving a sinking ship now want to recoop some dignity.

here is the kicker. politicans are only a reflection of the voters that put them into office.

until americans realize this will they continue to blame politicans and america will slide ever faster into fascism.

hey maybe the waterborading wont be so bad from blackwater.

congress is working overtime passing laws preparing americans for fascism.

[jeffwtux]

It's the original "Puffy McMoonface"

[bumpersticker]

James Madison, said at the Virginia ratification convention for the Constitution, "If the President be connected in any suspicious manner with any person and there be grounds to believe that he will shelter him, he may be impeached.­"

McClellan attests to the truth that Bush was connected to Libby in a suspicious manner and Bush sheltered him with the pardon to protect himself and Cheney.

[Rubiconski]

sounds like a witness for the IMPEACHMENT trial...

oh...I forgot Dems arent impeaching the traitor!!

[truthyguy]

Day late and a dollar short.
Especially for those whose lives were taken or ruined by this administration.