Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The outing of Valerie Plame Wilson and the White House coverup


Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has written a book entitled What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong With Washington

Although it won't be released until April, 2008, Public Affairs Books has published this excerpt on their web site http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/


"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"


Scooter is the only person to be charged in this case and Bush commuted his 30 month sentence.
After promising to fire anyone in the WH responsible for the leak, Bush refuses to discuss the case.
The outing of a CIA operative is a treasonous act. It is certainly worse than anything ever done by the Nixon White House or by Clinton with the intern.
It's time to, at the very least, impeach Bush and Cheney for these crimes.
For more on this see Valerie Plame Wilson's comments on the Huffington Post

2 comments:

LibraryLioness8 said...

I'd love to see someone go to prison for this. Mostly Karl Rove.

Fourdogmom said...

How about Guantanamo for the whole bunch. Throw them in a cell with some of the "terrorists"