Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Former WH Press Sec.: Bush, Rove helped pass along 'false information' on Plame

Former WH Press Sec.: Bush, Rove helped pass along 'false information' on PlameJason RhynePublished: Tuesday November 20, 2007
President Bush, Karl Rove, and other top administration officials were "involved" in misleading the White House press corps about the outing of ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame, a forthcoming book from former Press Secretary Scott McClellan alleges.
Entitled What Happened, the new tell-all features McClellan's account of his days as the White House's top spokesman -- including a behind-the-scenes look at the Bush administration's handling of the Plame affair, according to a tantalizing excerpt from the book released on its publisher's website.
"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," writes McClellan. "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."
But his press performances weren't based on the facts, McClellan continues.
"There was one problem. It was not true," he writes. "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."
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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_WH_Press_Sec._Bush_Rove_1120.html

Golly, why won't this Tempest in a Teapot Dome just go away? ;)

Monday, November 5, 2007

Revealed: Ford questioned Bush wiretaps, signing statements, Cheney prior to his death

Revealed: Ford questioned Bush wiretaps, signing statements, Cheney prior to his death
RAW STORYPublished: Monday November 5, 2007

Asked about Bush's NSA wiretapping program, Ford said, 'Where does he get his advice?'


Former President Gerald Ford sympathized with those who wanted Vice President Dick Cheney dumped as President George W. Bush's running mate in 2004, a new book claims.
"Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford," a series of interviews with Ford by veteran New York Daily News reporter Thomas DeFrank, was transcribed in the years before Ford's death in December at age 93. The conversations were to stay off-the-record until Ford's death.
"Dick has not been the asset I expected on the ticket," Ford told DeFrank in March 2004. "As you know, he's a great friend of mine, he did a great job for me, but he has not clicked, if that's the right word. God knows he works at it."
Ford had a generally positive impression of Bush, the book says, though he said Bush's decision to bring his father and mother into his bid for the 2000 nomination was a mistake.
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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Ford_had_reservations_about_Cheney_before_1105.html
He thought he knew Dick Cheney. It's past time for the entire country to rethink what they thought about the American Judas.