On Friday, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. U.S. News reports that “some Republican insiders” are “worried” about what he might say not only about the Valerie Plame leak scandal, but also on the “workings of the White House and what McClellan calls Bush’s lack of candor about the need for the Iraq invasion“:
But other GOP strategists say McClellan’s experience could underscore one of the weak points of the West Wing — the conversion of the press secretary’s job, at least under McClellan, into what some call a propagandist. “The press secretary has become the mouthpiece and not the fact checker,” says a former senior adviser to a Republican president.
White House officials, who are “concerned” about McClellan’s testimony, are trying to downplay the hearing, focusing instead on the 110th Congress’s “embarrassing lack of accomplishment over the past two years.”
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