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Former Aide McClellan Blames Bush, Rove in CIA Case
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Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a memoir that he unintentionally misled the public about the leak of a CIA operative’s name because of misinformation given to him by President George W. Bush, political adviser Karl Rove and other top officials.
A three-paragraph excerpt from the book released today by the publisher doesn’t give details of what the president told McClellan. The case eventually led to the indictment and conviction of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
“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,” McClellan, 39, wrote. “There was one problem. It was not true.”
McClellan wrote that he “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.”
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