Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Where's The Outrage?

Scott McClellan, Bush's former press secretary has written a book that promises to confirm what most of us already know about this administration. Bush, Cheney and Scooter Libby lied about the outing of Valerie Plame.

From an excerpt posted on McClellan's publisher's Web site and discovered by Editor and Publisher:

"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."

Yawn! This should come as no surprise. We all knew they were lying. But, it will be interesting to see how much press this gets. Remember when Clinton's lie about Monica occupied our national dialogue for months. That was nothing compared to this lie.

Where's the outrage?

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