Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a memoir that he unintentionally misled the public about the leak of a CIA operative's name because of misinformation given to him by George W. Bush, political adviser Karl Rove and other top officials.It's called treason. It doesn't get any simpler than that.
``I stood at the White House briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby,'' McClellan, 39, wrote. ``There was one problem. It was not true.''
McClellan wrote that he ``unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff, and the president himself.''
Valerie Plame was a covert CIA agent who headed up operations for the Joint Task Force on Iraq in the Counterproliferation Division of the CIA.
Bush and Cheney, as we have known all along, were deeply involved in the outing of Plame - all because her husband had the audacity to expose one of their lies that led us to war.
And now there is a witness, an eye witness, Scott McClellan, who has willingly come forward.It's never too late for that "frog march".
