![]() ![]() On the war in Iraq, he is particularly stinging. While McClellan writes that ‘I still like and and admire President Bush,’ he doesn’t do his old boss many favors in the book. Only later, McClellan said, did he realize he had been ‘deceived into unknowingly passing along a falsehood’ about their involvement. McClellan pointed to a confidential meeting Rove and Libby held ‘at a moment when I was being battered by the press for publicly vouching for the two by claiming they were not involved in leaking Plame’s identity.’ ![]() (Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice last year in the case.) Maybe McClellan was embittered by the likelihood that he was bamboozled by Bush’s top strategist Karl Rove and Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, who was the vice president’s chief of staff, about the disclosure of the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Plame. At the time Bush naming him the official press secretary surprised many of his colleagues, who felt he was in over his head at times. McClellan was rarely used as an on-camera campaign spokesman and served as assistant in the shadow of former press secretary Ari Fleischer. Although White House reporters sometimes felt he was uncomfortable in his press secretary role, McClellan was considered one of Bush’s Lone Star loyalists hired by former communications director Karen Hughes for the Texas governor’s office and the 1999-2000 campaign. ![]()
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