Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House

[meow2u3]

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.

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Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, $27.95):

• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.

• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.

• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”

• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080527/pl_politico/10649

[Ganja Ninja]

1. "He says the White House press corps was too easy"

Is that why he kept calling on Jeff Gannon?

[opihimoimoi]

2. Typ Pub, squealing for bucks....too little too late....he is complicit...HE LIED

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Like someone who sprays on deodorant as if ...

it can take the place of a shower. The stink still comes through.

[opihimoimoi]

4. LOL...Perfect analogy

and yet,,,the book is useful in sime ways to defeat the Clone...oops...McClone