Dirty Dick Implicated In CIA Leak?

It looks like it. "Vice" Preznit Dirty Dick Cheney can't be excluded from the scandal involving the leak of Valerie Plame's classified CIA identity, according to former White House press secretary Scott McClellan. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, McClellan could not say that Dirty Dick wasn't involved in the orchestrated effort to expose the wife of Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador who blew the whistle on the Bushit Assministration's false claims that Saddam Hussein's government was purchasing uranium yellow cake from Niger. By outing Valerie Plame in an attempt to intimidate critics of the war, Federal law was broken. Last year, former special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald alluded to the fact that, after "Scooter" Libby's conviction, there remained unnamed, "unindicted" participants in the attempt to expose Plame as a CIA agent.

Dirty Dick knew. He orchestrated it. Why would Scooter get out on a limb without his boss', Dirty Dick's, backing? Bastards.

Bob Dole Goes Postal

It looks like Scott McClellan is former Sen. Bob Dole's new Viagra. McClellan's tell-all book "What Happened" sure got a "rise" out of the famously irascible Dole. We can almost hear wife Elizabeth saying "Viva McClellan!"

Our Broken Media, Cont'd.

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new book has caused a small firestorm over his allegations that Dumbya and Co. created bogus rationales for going to war in Iraq, and encouraged perjury over the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plames's name in revenge for her husband's exposure of Bushie lies about Iraq seeking uranium cake in Niger.

Now CNN reporter Jessica Yellin confirms McClellan's opinion that the White House press corps was complicit in the selling of the war to the public. CNN executives killed negative stories about the White House, and were intimidated by public opinion polls after 9-11 showing Dumbya riding high. Her bosses told her to go after positive stories that supported the Assministration's policy toward Iraq.

Most of the mainstream media is in a "who, me?" mode today, after McClellan's charge that:

"The collapse of the administrations's rationale for war. . .should never have come as a surprise. In this case the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served."

Don't expect the media to linger on the charge that they didn't do their jobs. It's clear that most of them don't even know what their jobs are.

Update: As we expected, the Rethug chorus has now received its sheet music and is wailing away in unison. Once again, shocking!

A Bushie Tell-All Too Late

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has come out with a book that details the deceptions and incompetence of the Bushit Assministration over the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, and other events. In "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan says that Preznit Chimpy's Assministration made "a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed." The former press secretary (2003-2006) says that Chimpy "convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment," and was not "inquisitive" enough. He goes on to write that the White House press corps were "complicit enablers" in the "carefully orchestrated campaign to shape and manipulate sources of public approval" in the run up to the war. It was a propaganda operation, when what was called for was transparency and honesty.

Should be good reading, but there's always the frustration: these tools should have spoken up when it counted.

UPDATE: As might be expected, there's a full-on damage control effort on the airwaves today, with Bushies saying "Gosh, what happened (pun intended) to Scottie?" and "That's not the way I remember things!" Shocking! McClellan is scheduled to be on the Countdown with Keith Olbermann show Thursday, and will also appear on other venues if only to stand up for himself against the revisionist onslaught underway.

No Surprise: Dumbya Involved In Plame Case

Media blogs are reporting on the upcoming book by former White House Press Suckertary Scott "I Had My Fingers Crossed" McClellan, in which McClellan states that Dumbya was involved in passing along false information after the leak of CIA official Valerie Plame's identity. McClellan said that he was misinformed by Rove, Libby, White House Chief of Staff Card, Dead Eye Dick, and the Decider himself, and passed on the false story that neither Rove nor Libby were involved in leaking Plame's identity. "I stood at the White House briefing room podium. . .and publically exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House. . .", McClellan writes. "There was one problem. It was not true."

That lie was a fairly simple one for the Bushies to concoct. After all, they've had so much practice in seven years.