On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:00:06 -0500, Bob <blablabla@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:30:02 -0600, Doctor Zhivago <Zhivago@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>wrote:
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>>On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:07:03 -0500, Bob <blablabla@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>i hope it comes on again.
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>>>Me too but not on HD net. American soldiers made to look good. Can't
>>>have that! Doesn't fit the template. It seems Mark Cuban would rather
>>>promote a god awfull movie that America's enemys will use to their
>>>advantage. Sic dumb bastard! Wish I could drop the HD net channels
>>>from my dish account without loosing most all HD.
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>>Yes, what sovereign nation will goody-goody America illegally attack
>>next under a lie told by a Cocksucker In Chief who let 9/11 happen?
>
>Wow! Kook left child like mind heard from! It's pretty scary to think
>there are so many of you nutjobs out there! God help us all.
Keep denying reality. It's what lost you the Mid Term.
Former press aide blames Bush in CIA leak case
Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:13pm EST
By JoAnne Allen
WA****NGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Former White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan says in an upcoming book that he was misled by
President George W. Bush and other high officials into misinforming
the press about a CIA leak case that fueled debate about the Iraq war.
McClellan says he publicly exonerated former top White House aides
Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby because Bush had called on him to
help restore his credibility after the failure to find weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq.
"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,"
McClellan said in an excerpt released on Tuesday.
McClellan, a long-time Bush aide, whose job as White House press
secretary from 2003 to 2006 was to field questions from the press, was
not available for comment.
His book "Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with
Wa****ngton" is due out only in April, but the publisher, Public
Affairs, posted the excerpt on its Web site as a teaser.
Asked about the excerpt, White House press secretary Dana Perino said:
"The president has not and would not ask anyone to pass on false
information."
A criminal investigation into who leaked the identity of former CIA
analyst Valerie Plame reached into the ranks of top White House aides
and resulted in the conviction of Libby on perjury and obstruction of
justice charges in March.
Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, was
sentenced to 2 1/2 year in prison. Bush commuted the sentence in July.
Plame's cover was blown after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph
Wilson, accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence
on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to build its case for war.
No one was charge with criminally disclosing Plame's identity.
Rove, Bush's former White House political adviser, was investigated
but not charged, in the CIA leak probe.
On the day when Libby's verdict was announced, McCllelan was asked in
an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live" whether he had been lied to by
those involved.
He responded: I did speak directly with them and I was careful about
the way I phrased it at the time, even though I believed what they had
told me to be the truth."
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSN20642490
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