Did Bush ask McClellan to lie.

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:18 AM EST

Article Source: Salon.com

Did Bush ask Scott McClellan to lie -- or didn't he?
Former press secretary Scott McClellan says someone in the Bush administration made him spread "false information" about Plame-gate to the press. Time for Congress to ask tough questions. By Joe Conason

Nov. 21, 2007 | Scott McClellan, the former Bush press secretary famed for his robotic stylings, repetitive sophistry and rejection of candor, has at last turned on the powerful men who made him. Evidently he now claims to have grown weary of playing the patsy for their crimes and misdemeanors.

In a short, tantalizing excerpt from his forthcoming memoir posted on the Web site of Public Affairs Press, McClellan complains that he was duped into misleading the public and the media. Although the excerpt does not mention Valerie Plame, it clearly refers to her whispered exposure as a CIA agent by ranking aides to President Bush and Vice President Cheney:

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george s

Of course he did.

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