Note to Congress: Subpoena McClellan
Are Scott McClellan's soon to be published words (already leaked by his publisher) going to be the beginning of the end for the president? If they are true, they should be. Here is what he said, according to the New York Times:
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby were ''not involved'' in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.
''There was one problem. It was not true,'' McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. ''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.''
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.
The American people should not have to learn the details of this offense on the website of a book publisher. It is not the responsibility of that publisher (who, after all, is just trying to sell books before Bush is out of office and McClellan is just another Republican flack out of a job) to tell us the truth. That responsibility lies with this administration, the people that committed the offense to begin with.
That it has taken so long to find out the truth is a sad reflection on our democracy. Congress must act! The judiciary committees should hold hearings immediately, subpoena McClellan, and demand that he testify under oath about the betrayal of Valerie Plame's identity.
If what he says is true (and after his willingness to lie to the press, who knows...) 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.
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Someone give Fitzpatrick a call.
Congress is too timid to try to make this Administration accountable. They have been shirking their "checks and balances" responsibilities since taking over both branches.
That's why I give this Congress and Senate an F-.
They're impident.
Good idea!
He might think that an appearance before Congress would boost his book sales. And when he sits before the Commitees he can lie, or say he doesn't remember, or talk for a while without answering the question (remember, he's a professional at this).
In what world would anyone with a brain believe him?
I think Scott needs to be put in the front and center of Congress and tell his tale. He has us thinking he has knowingly lied or unknowingly lied. I look at him and see someone rove played as sucker and let him tell what he had been told to tell by the bush group. He might have learned after the fact just how many times he had been put up in front by the group to unknowingly lie. I can see him being used in this way. Can't you?
I pray with every fiber of my being that this gets the ball rolling on finally holding everyone accountable.
I've been writing to my representatives both in the area of my college and of my hometown to start acting in regards to this awful administration. I've written about six times now.
I hope something happens.
Issue the subpoenas, get out the truth and issue indictments. None of these bastards should be above the rule of law. Get the truth out and get the cheney impeachment out of committee and on the floor!
Um, how is that impeachment thing Dennis Kucinich submitted a couple weeks ago going?
Is lying actually an impeachable offence? Not perjury or contempt of Congress, but regular, politician "no new taxes" lying? Everyone knew McClellan was lying - that was just him doing his job. (Maybe I'm missing something.)
It's a safe bet, of course, that McClellan *does* have useful, pertinent testimony, even if his book merely states the obvious but pretends he did it "unknowingly."
Impeachment saves lives.
Are you kidding?!! Congress has MUCH more important things to be doing right now, like issuing symbolic condemnations of political ads that make fun of general's names.
Teasing puns are of much more serious consequence than outing a CIA agent or committing treason. Good God Almighty, can't you people get your priorities straight?!
Or declaring McClellan an "Enemy Combatant" and shipping him off, in the dead of night ("rendition" they call it), to Egypt for alternative interrogation.
Odd that a true believer like Mclellan would chose to make these claims at this time. I wouldn't trust any of these rats if they said the sky was blue.
Raises the possibility that Mclellan knows some Very Bad Things are coming down the line and wants to start immunizing himself.
If only! They'll just tell more lies to cover up the lies they've already told. Or bomb Iran to get this story off the front page, then declare martial law and cancel the elections for the "sake of democracy".
WTF is going on in this country? Why is it we're putting up with this? Where is the media? Where are our elected officials? I think it's time to take to the streets.
McClellan is begging to be put under oath. He wants to confess.
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