Archive for the ‘plamegate’ Category

McClellan testifies to House Judiciary Committee

Friday, June 20th, 2008

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Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan testified to the House Judiciary Committee about his new revelations on the exposure of CIA agent Valerie Plame and the Bush administration’s "propaganda campaign" that led the country into war.

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Chris Dodd Calls For Investigation Into Bush’s Role In PlameGate

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

To whet our appetite, the publisher has released a pretty damning excerpt in which McClellan in no uncertain terms implicates Bush and Cheney in the disinformation campaign that Scotty undertook from his post in the press room to exonerate the administration in the outing of Valerie Wilson.

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Chris Dodd Calls For Investigation Into Bush’s Role In PlameGate

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

To whet our appetite, the publisher has released a pretty damning excerpt in which McClellan in no uncertain terms implicates Bush and Cheney in the disinformation campaign that Scotty undertook from his post in the press room to exonerate the administration in the outing of Valerie Wilson.

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Bush: ‘Perhaps Somebody in the Administration’ Outed CIA Operative Valerie Plame

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

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Bush Makes No Sense Whatsovever: “Bush acknowledged publicly for the first time Thursday that ‘perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name’ of then-CIA operative Valerie Plame, the wife of former ambassador Joseph Wilson.” Then why is Karl Rove still in the White House? Why was his security clearance just been renewed? Why didn’t Bush follow through on his promise to fire such a person? But then he would have to fire himself. We could handle that.

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A Profile in Cowardice

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Frank Rich writes: “There was never any question that President Bush would grant amnesty to Scooter Libby, the man who knows too much about the lies told to sell the war in Iraq. The only questions were when, and how, Mr. Bush would buy Mr. Libby’s silence. Now we have the answers, and they’re at least as incriminating as the act itself.”

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Bush commutes Libby’s sentence

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

President George W. Bush commuted Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s 2 1/2-year prison sentence in the CIA leak case, sparing him from punishment the president called “excessive.”

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