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):

--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.

1 Comments

Sal "The Muckraker" Costello said:

Bravo!

I knew I liked that family.

http://salcostello.blogspot.com/

May 27, 2008 9:52 PM

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