Texan Scott McClellan Scorches Bush
Former White House press secretary, Scott McClelland, son of former Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn, is out with his memoir next week.
In a Politico exclusive, he pulls no punches.
Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception" (Public Affairs, $27.95):The book comes out next week. The Austin native was WH press secretary from 2003-2006, and was press secretary to then-Governor Bush back when they were both in Texas.--McClellan charges that Bush relied on "propaganda" to sell the war.
--He says the White House press corps went too easy on the administration.
--He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be "badly misguided."
--The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them - and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him the full facts.
--McClellan asserts that the aides -- Karl Rove, the president's senior adviser, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff - "had at best misled" him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
Bravo!
I knew I liked that family.
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