McClellan: […]I walked onto Air Force One, it was right after an event we had, it was down in the south, I believe it was North Carolina. And I walk onto Air Force One and a reporter had yelled a question to the President trying to ask him a question about this revelation that had come out during the legal proceedings. The revelation was that it was the President who had authorized, or, enable Scooter Libby to go out there and talk about this information [ed: Valerie Plame’s status with the CIA *Update: Correction link above.]. And I told the President that that's what the reporter was asking. He was saying that you, yourself, was the one that authorized the leaking of this information. And he said "yeah, I did." And I was kinda taken aback."Now, for the most part, this is not new," emptywheel writes. "We have known (since I first reported it here) that Scooter Libby testified that, after Libby told Dick Cheney he couldn't leak the information Cheney had ordered him to leak to Judy Miller because it was classified, Cheney told Libby he had gotten the President to authorize the declassification of that information."
She continues, "Thus far, though, we only had Dick Cheney's word that he had actually asked Bush to declassify this information. We didn't have Bush's confirmation that he had actually declassified the information. In fact, we've had Dick Cheney's claims that he--Dick--had insta-declassified via his super secret pixie dust declassification powers.
"But now we've got George Bush, confirming that he, the President of the United States, authorized the leaks of 'this information,'" Wheeler argues.
As if we didn't know who authorized the leaking of Valerie Plame's name...but, if Scott McClellan had this information direct from the Criminal in Chief himself back when it happened and didn't report it then - which he didn't - then he and the CIC should both be arrested and be put on trial. Now.
We could have a three-ring circus...
If he refuses to testify about his role in the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006, a member of the House Judiciary Committee said the panel would be willing to have former top Bush advisor Karl Rove arrested.
Well, I won't hold my breath.
Correction to this post here.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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