Former Bush press secretary backs Obama

Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary who angered old colleagues with a tell-all book earlier this year, says he is backing Barack Obama for president.

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McClellan's book on Bush a surprise hit for many

The allegations of deceit in Scott McClellan's book have been a surprise not only for Bush officials enraged with the former White House spokesman but also for publishers who turned down what is now the industry's hottest release.

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McClellan says he believed in Bush as war started

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan defended his bombshell book about the Bush administration on Thursday, saying he didn't speak up against the overselling of war in Iraq at the time because he, like other Americans, gave the president the benefit of the doubt.

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Rice says Bush clear about Iraq war

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday rejected allegations from a former White House spokesman who says the Bush administration misled the American public into going to war with Iraq.

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McClellan: Bush should have fired Rove

President Bush broke his promise to the country by refusing to fire aide Karl Rove for leaking a CIA agent's identity, said Scott McClellan, the president's chief spokesman for almost three years.

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Former Aide Blames Bush for Leak Deceit

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.

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McClellan Holds Last White House Briefing

A large bank of photographers fixed their lenses on the White House podium from the back of the briefing room. Other photographers stood in the aisles to get side shots. Reporters filled nearly every seat.

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After questioning former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan during a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee Friday, a Democratic congressman called for impeachment proceedings to be initiated

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"This is a very secretive White House ... There's some things that they would prefer not to be talked about," McClellan said.

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Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary-turned-Bush administration critic, told the House Judiciary Committee this morning that the White House has "sought to avoid public accountability and scrutiny" about the leaking of a CIA agent's name and "overstated and ove …

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Lingering public mistrust of the administration in the sunset of the president's second term comes from errors in Bush's justifications for the war and broken presidential promises, McClellan told the panel.

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"I do not think the president had any knowledge" of the revelation of Valerie Plame Wilson's identity, Scott McClellan said at a House Judiciary committee hearing. "In terms of the vice president, I do not know."

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Lessons that every professional can learn from the recent Scott McClellan book controversy.

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Please call your congressional representatives today - Demand impeachment hearings and accountability - Capitol Hill Switchboard: (202) 224-2131 , (800) 828-0498 Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has revealed in his upcoming book that:

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The White House had said in 2003 that anyone who leaked classified information in the case would be dismissed. Bush reiterated that promise in June 2004.

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Yesterday, MoveOn launched a petition calling on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan to donate the proceeds from his new book to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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THE BEST Recipe for Texas Ranch Barbequed Bullcacky

Ingredients 1 Disaffected former White House Press Secretary 1 Unpopular, lame duck president 4 Months to go until the next presidential election 2 Houses of Congress up for grabs and more likely than ever to go Democratic 1Strong dose of Texas Bullcacky 1 Publisher eager for p …

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Even after Scott McClellan's publisher released a juicy excerpt from his memoir last November, some of his former combatants in the White House press corps remained skeptical that the longtime Bush loyalist would really open up.

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"There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues," Dole wrote in a message sent yesterday morning.

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FRANCIS Fukuyama is the American public intellectual who pronounced the end of history 19 years ago and was a neo-conservative, an idea and an ideology that both suggest he is out of date.

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Billionaire George Soros, funder of elite causes and critic of most things conservative, has been linked by a blogger to former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's anti-Bush book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception."

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Former press secretary Scott McClellan is only the latest former Bush administration insider to point a finger at White House failures in a tell-all book.

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This is a pretty lengthy column, but worth at least a skim. It starts off with wondering why McClellan's claim that President Bush couldn't remember if he used cocaine or not didn't get more play in the media.

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How Can the MSM be so Dense?

I think I've heard every cable show mention Scott McClellan's comments regarding Richard Clarke's book, "Against All Enemies".

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The President has endangered the world, War & Crime & Poverty

Bush's war of aggression is not just a WAR CRIME, it has made people around the world hate the US more than ever. He has played part in revealing the secret identity of a CIA operative. He has expanded the prison-industrial complex.

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George W. Bush's speech on September 6, 2006 amounted to a public confession to criminal violations of the 1996 War Crimes Act.

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In today's White House press briefing, spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters that the White House, hypothetically, could stop McClellan from testifying: QUESTION: Could the White House block him from testifying, if he wanted to testify? Or how does that work?

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You are inclined to say that Scott McClellan is like the first one out of The Bada Bing Club, scurrying into the light and looking for redemption, except that it has become clear by now that even the hoods from "The Sopranos" would be out of their weight class with George W.

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In a Countdown exclusive, former Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan talks to Keith Olbermann about the allegations in his book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and the Washington Culture of Deception." McClellan writes that while sincere in his defenses the administ …

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Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan made clear today that it was President Bush - not the high-profile aides around him - who left him most disillusioned in the run-up to the Iraq War.

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Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan says George W. Bush 's political guru Karl Rove arranged a private meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff I.

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He was the most plodding, the most robotic, and - until this week - apparently the most loyal of presidential spokesmen.

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