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.
Mere hours after the publishers put the excerpt up on their website, McClellan was obviously getting pressured to change his tune and issued a statement saying, "the president didn't know it was not true." So when he very clearly wrote that "It was not true," he was just kidding? Hmmm. Still a puppet douchebag.......
Valerie Plame's response to all this after the jump.......
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Santa Fe, New Mexico--I am outraged to learn that former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan confirms that he was sent out to lie to the press corps and the American public about two senior White House officials, Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby who deliberately and recklessly revealed my identity as a covert CIA operations officer. Even more shocking, McClellan confirms that not only Karl Rove and Scooter Libby told him to lie but Vice President Cheney, Presidential Chief of Staff Andrew Card, and President Bush also ordered McClellan to issue his misleading statement. Unfortunately, President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's felony sentence has short-circuited justice.
Vice President Cheney in particular knew that Scooter Libby was involved because he had ordered and directed his actions. McClellan's revelations provide important support for our civil suit against those who violated our national security and maliciously destroyed my career.
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Is that more disturbing than the untruths that Joe Wilson published in his article that truly undermined everything we were doing at the time? Why is your outrage so one-sided here, the administration should've handled this better by simply calling out the falsifications in the article and the congressional findings, but the glorification of the Wilsons is insane.
Posted on November 26, 2007 9:42 AM
I like your blog, this post is really good, but please vary your topics, it will broad your readership.
Posted on April 9, 2008 4:45 AM