Libby Pressured McClellan To Issue Statement ‘Exonerating Him’
By on Apr 6th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Libby Pressured McClellan To Issue Statement ‘Exonerating Him’
Another piece of interesting information buried in yesterday’s filing by Patrick Fitzgerald: Scooter Libby “implored White House officials to have a public statement issued exonerating him” even though he “had in fact played in disclosing Ms. Wilson’s CIA employment.”
He went so far as giving Press Secretary Scott McClellan a (somewhat poetic) hand-written note:
According to Fitzgerald, on October 4, 2003, “as a result of defendant’s request” McClellan told the press corps he had talked to Libby, Karl Rove and Elliot Abrams and “those individuals assured me that they were not involved in this.”
That statement continues to haunt McClellan to this day.
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...McClellan told the press corps he had talked to Libby, Karl Rove and Elliot Abrams and “those individuals assured me that they were not involved in this.â€
That statement continues to haunt McClellan to this day. Posted by Judd
Come on, Judd, really. Even a redneck dipstick like me knows McClellan is so used to swallowing down all those lies, a little whopper like that one wouldn't even give him indigestion.
April 6th, 2006 at 12:43 pmANYONE that speaks about himself in the third person is creepy in the extreme.
April 6th, 2006 at 12:49 pm2- Wow, Scotty pushes bullshit... Who'da thunk it?
Sorry, that fruit was hanging a little too low.
April 6th, 2006 at 12:49 pmFor the Waas article and all the latest CIA Leak news, documents, timelines, and relevant statutes, see:
April 6th, 2006 at 12:50 pm"The PlameGate Scandal Resource Center."
And the house of cards continues to fall!!!
I wish...dang, I wish so many things I am unsure where to begin!!! Do you think anyone will actually call him on this?
April 6th, 2006 at 12:51 pmDo you think anyone will actually call him on this?
Besides Helen Thomas, who probably won't get called on to ask a question?
April 6th, 2006 at 12:55 pm"If anyone in my administration wrote a book about underage whores-in-training being repeatedly raped by caged bears, I want to know about it."
-- George W. Bush
April 6th, 2006 at 12:56 pmPoor Scooter. Imagine having to beg a whiny, creepy liar like Scottie to cover your ass. True desperation.
April 6th, 2006 at 1:14 pm#2 "ANYONE that speaks about himself in the third person is creepy in the extreme.
Comment by Badmoodman — April 6, 2006 @ 12:49 pm"
ElectricBassPlayer wholeheartedly agrees!
April 6th, 2006 at 1:21 pmWhat the Busheviks will eventually be forced to claim is that, if the Preznit is telling folks about it, whether it was classified or not, it is de facto unclassified by the fact of the Preznit's utterance.
After that, he's gonna go for 'ex cathedra infallibility': that the Preznit is NEVER mistaken when He speaks on the subject of National Security...
April 6th, 2006 at 1:27 pmHow are they going to spin this one?
Do you believe that Pat Buchanan was on Chris Matthews show last night and he is still defending Old Bushie.
He must be part of the 36% that still believe in Old Bushie.
April 6th, 2006 at 1:32 pmAny moment now, the truth will come out and we'll all see that Hillary did it! Hillary leaked Plame's name to the media! She conspired with Michael Moore and Joe Wilson and you'll see any moment now you libs and you'll be sorry and I'll be laughing so hard...
April 6th, 2006 at 1:41 pm5- You just got your question answered on the front page.
April 6th, 2006 at 1:52 pmWhat a rat's nest. I almost, but not quite, feel sorry for the sucka.
April 6th, 2006 at 1:56 pmI'm sure I'm gonna get ripped for saying this but I kind of feel bad for Scooter Libby. It looks like he is gonna be the fall guy for something that was likely authorized from above. He shouldnt be singled out for the sins of the Prez/viceprez.
What we should be talking about is Scooter LIbby getting exonerated but Bush-Cheney being IMPEACHED!!
April 6th, 2006 at 2:06 pm"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal"
Crooks & Liars
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/01/25.html#a6858
April 6th, 2006 at 2:12 pmKinda like Lyndie England?
Kinda like Michael Brown?
Step and repeat, step and repeat, step and repeat.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:15 pmWhat does Snotty fail to understand? I realize he's a close friend of Emeror Numbnuts. But this is just crazy!!!
Outting Valerie Plame is an impeachable offense.
Failure to protect a nation from 9/11 should be an impeachable offense (given all the warnings prior to the event from other heads of state).
Illegal wiretapping is an impeachable offense.
Failure to respond to Katrina should be an impeachable offense.
What is it going to take for Republicans to wake up and do the right things for and by this country??? Or are ALL of them to be found under George’s desk doing The Gannon???
Yet Snotty McLick'n continues to "protect" the Emperor! This is beyond incredible. This is well into the zone of insanity.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:32 pm#2 badmoonman
April 6th, 2006 at 3:30 pmEver hear Bob Dole speak? He has the same habit and it's annoying at best! I personally find it weird.
'Libby was not the source of the Novak story" -- Cheney was.
'And he did not leak classified information' -- because GW had 'declassified' it.
Btw, GW doesn't have that right -- he just takes his dictators's liberty yet again.
April 6th, 2006 at 3:40 pm"I’m sure I’m gonna get ripped for saying this but I kind of feel bad for Scooter Libby."
You've got to be kidding. The guy was a member of the Shitehouse Iraq Group (WHIG), which means he is a warcriminal and a traitor.
"Article III: The following acts shall be punishable:
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
Article IV: Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals."
He is guilty of (b) and (e), and as such is an international warcriminal who deserves a trial on those charges, and then summary hanging or firing squad. Pull your head out of your ass -- this is not someone who deserves ten seconds of your sympathy, unless you are a big fan of Adolph Hitler.
April 6th, 2006 at 3:43 pmIs there some way we could start a big movement to get lots of people writing letters and marching with signs that say
"Answer Helen's question!"
April 6th, 2006 at 10:52 pmWe need to get a couple bloggers placed inside the White House press corps.
That oughta shake things up!
April 6th, 2006 at 11:19 pmLibby names names...
Scooter Libby has testified at his obstruction of justie trial that President Bush authorized the leak of classified information on Iraq that ultimately led to the disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity....
April 7th, 2006 at 12:28 amI am disappointed not to see the Core Rebulicans exposing you snobs for your giggling, biased comments. It's a good thing that Competent Comnservatives are running things. You are a bunchg of jealous sissies who have no agenda. You all still think government will solve everything.
WE have VALues. We BeLIEVE in Things. You dimbulb libs have no convictions.
You all whine about the War and demand a plan to retreat. Where's your plan? What are you gonna do when you take over government again? Huh? Smartasses? You don't know what to do about it either, and WE will laugh as you try to do any better. We will beat the hell out of you as the opposition as you struggle to fix our mess - you watch, we'll make it into YOUR mess. HAHAHAHAHA!
You lose again.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:26 amAnd another thing. Get it through your pointy little heads that if the PODUS says it's so, it's so. Like it or not, it is impossible by definition for the President to beak a law, because when He does something or says something, that IS the law, as of that instant in time.
Get used to it.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:30 amAre #'s 25 and 26 meant as satire? It is getting so hard to tell these days, but you'd hope that no one is really that stupid, right?
April 7th, 2006 at 9:10 amyea #25 & 26 has to be ironic bcuz id be shocked if anyone was that stupid, oh wait no i wouldnt i live in rural north GA and these hicks are dumber than a box of rocks. and by these standards that guy would be above avg intelligence. oh by the way did you know that the KKK is still around here? yea seriously. hmmm i wonder who the KKK votes for........ i bet they vote for democrats. one more thing whatever the prez says is law..... yea what is he King george now?
April 7th, 2006 at 6:09 pmI suggest we hand Bush a mirror & tell him to keep his word & fire himself. He is the leaker!
That would make a good protest sign, thousands of people holding up hand mirrors with Bush's face on it.
April 7th, 2006 at 7:23 pmRepublicans set the bar of what is needed to trigger an impeachment. What are they waiting for?
April 7th, 2006 at 10:00 pm[...] what I know today, I would have never said that back then,” McClellan said, referring to the assurance he gave the public that Rove and Libby were not [...]
March 7th, 2007 at 12:16 pm