Bush 'involved' in CIA leak case

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Bush 'involved' in CIA leak case
A former White House press secretary has said the US president was involved in misinforming the public over the leaking of a CIA agent's identity. In an excerpt from his book, Scott McClellan says George W Bush helped mislead the public over the role in the affair of two White House aides. The CIA agent, Valerie Plame, says her identity was leaked because her diplomat husband opposed the Iraq war. Mr McClellan's book is not scheduled for publication until April and the excerpt released was brief. It refers to a White House press conference he attended in 2003. At the conference, Mr McClellan told journalists that the two aides Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in leaking Ms Plame's identity. The excerpt reads: "There was one problem. It was not true. "I had 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." Mr McClellan, who served as press secretary from 2003 to 2006, has made no further comment on the excerpt. I’ve always hoped this would be the way Bush would leave office, Americans have this inane tendancy to love their President even if he wrongly invades 3rd world countries and flattens them (ask the 200 000+ South Americans who died from Amercan funded paramilitary death squads if Ronald Reagan is the greatest ever Republican). There is a simplicity about the American mainstream dialogue that borders on the handicapped, where invading Iraq may be forgiven in the national interest, the President getting caught out clearly lying is a cardinal sin. Apparently to lie for America is great, to lie for oneself is careless, and American’s are all about hokey flag blinded manners, if Bush gets caught out lying it will be for many of his evangelical followers akin to sex with Hillary Clinton. Bush deserves to not only be booed by Democrats as he crawls out of the White House, it would also be lovely to see him hissed out by his moral majority Republicans as well. January 2009 can’t come soon enough.