McClellan A Sellin during Testimony Denies Knowledge Editor Bush Disliker

Gotta laugh. The man writes a book in which he documents nothing, he has no direct knowledge of anything, and he testifies before a Democrat-majority Congressional Committee but says "nothing new," ok so he didn't have to take the fifth either because he really knows "nothing" as he was not present during meetings, oh, except for one time when as Assistant Press Sec. he sat in on some meeting for Ari Fleicher...

One Republican congressman pressed McClellan about his editor making a statement of distain for President George W. Bush... did you know your editor didn't like Bush much? Uh, no, responds McClellan, I had no idea...

Uh, Scott, should you be proven wrong on that, in other words, you were aware of the statement made by your editor, and you thus lied before Congress, after swearing to tell the truth and the whole truth, uh, guess what, they can charge you with perjury...

Tracking... now who was that editor???

And how many times did Scott mention his book? And gotta love, uh, no, that's not in my book cause I wasn't present at that meeting...

Laughing all the while writing...

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Friday, June 20, 2008 19:25 EDT
McClellan takes the stand
Scott McClellan found himself in an unfamiliar position on Friday. There were reporters hanging on his words, and lights and cameras focused on him, but he was criticizing the Bush administration, not defending it.

McClellan, the former White House press secretary, came back to national attention recently when the contents of his tell-all book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," leaked, showing he'd become a strong critic of the Bush administration since he left it in 2006. And because of those criticisms, the House Judiciary Committee called him to testify to see if he could shed any light on certain subjects, especially the leak of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

As my friend Steve Benen notes, there wasn't much new information revealed during McClellan's testimony. (Not too surprising -- the man did just write a book, after all, and presumably the juiciest bits are in there.) But there were some very interesting moments.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/06/20/mcclellan/index.html

Good writing

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