McClellan To Testify

[SuspectCorner]

McClellan To Testify Before Judiciary Committee

June 9, 2008 04:50 PM

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, whose scathing memoir about his time in the Bush administration sent waves through Washington D.C., has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, a senior committee official told The Huffington Post.

McClellan's book "What Happened" detailed the "propaganda campaign" that led up to the Iraq war. His hearing is expected to focus heavily on the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, an episode that McClellan has said was driven by political motivations from within the Oval Office. But the committee could press the former press secretary on other matters within its jurisdiction, including the possible authorization of torture by administration officials (though it remains to be seen how much knowledge McClellan has of that topic).

Earlier on Monday, Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers sent an letter to McClellan requesting his testimony.

"I have extended an invitation...after discussions between Committee staff and his attorneys," wrote Conyers. "In his book, Mr. McClellan suggests that senior White House officials may have obstructed justice and engaged in a cover-up regarding the Valerie Plame leak. This alleged activity could well extend beyond the scope of the offenses for which Scooter Libby has been convicted and deserves further attention."

The date on the invitation, June 20, was set in advance to accommodate McClellan's schedule, the official said.

McClellan will be the highest-ranking Bush administration official to be pressed by Congress on the Plame affair. Former Bush strategist Karl Rove has refused to testify, citing executive privilege.

And as such, the testimony could be extremely revealing. According to McClellan, the decision to leak Plame's covert identity emanated from the very top of the Bush White House. The move, he wrote, was politically motivated, as officials were peeved at the critical statements about Iraq coming from Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson. While McClellan said that the president was ultimately misled by his advisers on the matter, he asserted that the episode itself was a stain on the Oval Office - one that led to his disillusionment.

"It's...clear to me that Scooter Libby was guilty of the perjury and obstruction crimes for which he was convicted," McClellan wrote. "When the president commuted Libby's prison sentence and thereby protected him from serving even one day behind bars, I was disappointed. This kind of special treatment undermines our system of justice."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/09/mcclellan-to-testify-befo_n_106128.html

[burmafrd]

What makes me laugh is how all of a sudden he went from an evil Bushie to the lefts best friend.

[BrAinPaiNt]

What makes me laugh is how all of a sudden he went from an evil Bushie to the lefts best friend.

Many have left with bad things to say. Some I would just right off as bitter guys. But some I highly respect like Powell.

Word also is that the whitehouse/admin tried to pressure Scotty from agreeing to testify before congress.

As I have been told time and time again about wire tapping, if you have done nothing wrong, why be worry about it.:D

[burmafrd]

Because even if you have done nothing wrong, libs like you will get their shills in the media to make it appear so.

[BrAinPaiNt]

Because even if you have done nothing wrong, libs like you will get their shills in the media to make it appear so.

You sound like that teacher in the peanuts cartoons...same three lines over and over..blah blah blah, lib lib lib.

[burmafrd]

And you sound exactly the same way coming from the far side. So we cancel each other out. Fine with me.

[SuspectCorner]

;) Many have left with bad things to say. Some I would just right off as bitter guys. But some I highly respect like Powell.

Word also is that the whitehouse/admin tried to pressure Scotty from agreeing to testify before congress.

As I have been told time and time again about wire tapping, if you have done nothing wrong, why be worry about it.:D

I gd guarantee you the White House will attempt to block a McClellan testimony before the House. You watch. ;)

[BrAinPaiNt]

And you sound exactly the same way coming from the far side. So we cancel each other out. Fine with me.

No I actually attack BOTH sides unlike you.


Blah blah blah, lib lib lib.

[burmafrd]

I have attacked Bush and other Republicans when I think they are full of it like on spending and immigration. And on the far right conservatives like Buchanon. Just that libs are such easy targets so much of the time and they make it so easy to make fun of them.

[BrAinPaiNt]

I have attacked Bush and other Republicans when I think they are full of it like on spending and immigration. And on the far right conservatives like Buchanon. Just that libs are such easy targets so much of the time and they make it so easy to make fun of them.

Just like you are an easy target playing the role of the demented neocon.

Blah Blah Blah, Lib Lib Lib

[Jordan55]

;)

I gd guarantee you the White House will attempt to block a McClellan testimony before the House. You watch. ;)

Yeah, he has so much more inside information to give us on Bush and his conspirators to bamboozle the American Public.
The Fact is he's a disgruntled ex-employee, trying to sale a book and make a dime and if the left is willing to buy into, more power to him.
Those of you who write on bathroom walls, roll your in little balls, those of you who reads these words of wit, eat these little balls of .:lmao2:

[SuspectCorner]

Yeah, he has so much more inside information to give us on Bush and his conspirators to bamboozle the American Public.
The Fact is he's a disgruntled ex-employee, trying to sale a book and make a dime and if the left is willing to buy into, more power to him.
Those of you who write on bathroom walls, roll your in little balls, those of you who reads these words of wit, eat these little balls of .:lmao2:

Oh, the American people have been bamboozled alright. In fact - that's quite the point. And that point seems to only be doing a "fly-over" of Jordan 55... for now.

[Jordan55]

Oh, the American people have been bamboozled alright. In fact - that's quite the point. And that point seems to only be doing a "fly-over" of Jordan 55... for now.

It's time to move on past Dr. Evil (Bush), my Keith Olbermann fan, I don't believe that McClellan, is going to give you or any of the other left wing conspiracist's cronies out there on Daily Kos any more information then you already pieced together on Bush's malicious diabolical plot to hoodwink the American Public.
I can't believe, that MSNBC, hasn't put the whole puzzle together yet.:lmao2:

Bush, the great manipulater of a nation, you give him to much credit!

[SuspectCorner]

It's time to move on past Dr. Evil (Bush), my Keith Olbermann fan, I don't believe that McClellan, is going to give you or any of the other left wing conspiracist's cronies out there on Daily Kos any more information then you already pieced together on Bush's malicious diabolical plot to hoodwink the American Public.
I can't believe, that MSNBC, hasn't put the whole puzzle together yet.:lmao2:

Bush, the great manipulater of a nation, you give him too much credit!

Well, my Austin Powers fan (I love those movies, too), the only people any of this is coming as a shock to - are the "defend-Bush-regardless-of-the-facts" right wingers. The so-called "left" have been onto his game for quite some time now.

I apologize for the "fly over" crack - uncalled for. But it's more than a little disconcerting to hear the situation being minimized. Tally up the damage:




Thousands of young American lives lost and their survivors and the families they have been taken from. also, the irreparable damage done to disabled veterans of that war - and their families.

Hundreds of billions of dollars that could have been diverted to domestic issues like the US infrastructure and economy.

A foreign nation that has been destroyed. Tens of thousands killed. Hundreds of thousands wounded. Millions displaced. And we're likely on the hook for much of the repair bill, too.

Meanwhile an army of war-profiteering corporations (contractors outnumber troops), many with direct ties to the administration, engage in ripping off the US government and contributing little to the rebuilding of infrastructure.

All of this the consequence of lies our President and his administration foisted upon the country he was sworn to defend.

And this doesn't make you kinda angry?

So, Jordan - what would?

[hank2k]

It's time to move on past Dr. Evil (Bush), my Keith Olbermann fan, I don't believe that McClellan, is going to give you or any of the other left wing conspiracist's cronies out there on Daily Kos any more information then you already pieced together on Bush's malicious diabolical plot to hoodwink the American Public.
I can't believe, that MSNBC, hasn't put the whole puzzle together yet.:lmao2:

Bush, the great manipulater of a nation, you give him to much credit!

I agree, it's Dick Cheney who's behind most of the bad stuff.

Bush is just in it for the fun stuff.

Unfortunately, the sarcasm meter is NOT on for this post. I actually mean it.

[silverbear]

Because even if you have done nothing wrong, libs like you will get their shills in the media to make it appear so.

Once again, in burma's world, anybody who's not a slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging, goose-stepping fascist is a "liberal"...

Anybody who IS a slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging, goose-stepping fascist, burma calls "friend"...

Frankly, his incessant personal attacks are supposed to be against the rules of this board... it has been my perception that he never talks politics, all he does is rip "libs" (whoever they might be, in his warped view of the world)...

[silverbear]

Those of you who write on bathroom walls, roll your in little balls, those of you who reads these words of wit, eat these little balls of .:lmao2:

A classic example of right wing "wit", in the Rush Limbaugh/Ann Coulter tradition...

[silverbear]

It's time to move on past Dr. Evil (Bush),

The way you right wing zealots have moved on past Slick Willie??

Your hypocrisy is astounding, and amusing, all at the same time...

Too bad for you, the electorate is not yet ready to move past Dubya, instead they're pissed at him, and the GOP... I understand that you righties desperately WANT to move past the guy, but he was your boy, and we're not gonna let you now try to pretend that he wasn't...

His screwups are on your head...

Bush, the great manipulater of a nation, you give him to much credit!


Do we, or are you giving him a free pass??

Candidly, I find your take on how history will judge that putz to be the essence of farce... he is, simply put, the most incompetent president of my lifetime... this goes back to Harry Truman...