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McClellan Implicates President in Obstruction

by BooMan
Tue Nov 20th, 2007 at 11:51:51 AM EST

From former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new book:

"The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So 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.
"There was one problem. It was not true.
"I had 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."

That's refreshing candor. Now, we know that the president has pretty much unlimited constitutional power to issue pardons, but he doesn't have the right to obstruct justice. I know that Patrick Fitzgerald interviewed the president, the vice-president, and the president's chief of staff, Andrew Card. I am quite sure that none of them admitted that they told Scott McClellan to lie about the role of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby in the outing of Valerie Wilson. You're not allowed to lie to a federal prosecutor or to a grand jury. You are not allowed to suborn perjury. You are not entitled to offer a pardon in exchange for obstruction of an investigation.

I think we need a new grand jury.

McClellan Implicates President in Obstruction | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: McClellan Implicates President in Obstruction (none / 0)

Are you kidding? Who is going to call for a Grand Jury?
The bastards are here for the duration.My concern is that we can't have a repeat.And, at the rate the dems are going- that worries me alot. Look at the latest from the AG dept. The Mn Bitch leaves Mn because of the insanity in her office and gets REWARDED by moving to DC and posted to the political advisory group! Puleeze- a grand jury?

by billjpa (billjpa@aol.com) on Tue Nov 20th, 2007 at 01:05:43 PM EST

Re: McClellan Implicates President in Obstruction (none / 1)

Indeed!

Frogmarch!

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington- Obama
Philly for Obama

by Luam (LuamDK at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 20th, 2007 at 01:08:04 PM EST

Re: McClellan Implicates President in Obstruction (none / 1)

Fitzgerald clearly said that he was not closing the Plame case. I seem to remember that Cheney & Bush were not under oath and had outside counsel but can't remember if Card was under oath. Not that under oath means much to this gaggle.

by mainsailset on Tue Nov 20th, 2007 at 01:31:24 PM EST

Re: McClellan Implicates President in Obstruction (none / 1)

dream on.

impeachment was taken of the table by our wise supine leaders, all skilled in the art of caving.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Tue Nov 20th, 2007 at 01:47:47 PM EST

Re: McClellan Implicates President in Obstruction (none / 1)

Ah yes, the indictment of a sitting President. The indictment that dare not speak its name. I'm sure Mukasey will get right on it, right after the Joint Chiefs of Staff sign off on returning Congress' testicles from deep freeze at Area 51.

Say, has anyone heard what happened to Areas 1 through 50?

Anyway, at this point, we've seen so many instances of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that if anything was going to bring down this government, it would have fallen already. In a fundamentally corrupt system, however, high crimes are not an exception warranting punishment, they are standard operating procedure, and the public seems content to stew in their cynical apathy and let it happen.

---Cthulhu for President: Why vote for the lesser evil?

by eodell (eodell at naqada dot org) on Tue Nov 20th, 2007 at 02:25:33 PM EST

Re: As I have asked.... (none / 1)

countless times in the past seven years...."What's a guy gotta do to get IMPEACHED around here??"

We need to push for Progressive change, now more than ever.

by keepinon (jaukkuri@sbcglobal.net) on Tue Nov 20th, 2007 at 04:57:08 PM EST

Re: As I have asked.... (none / 1)

That's easy.

All a guy has to do is be a Democrat and get a blowjob.

Which explains why Bush and Cheney are safe, `cause them fucks couldn't get a hummer in a borderlands whorehouse with Bill Gates' credit cards.

We are all captives of the pictures in our heads - our belief that the world which we have experienced is the world that really exists. - W. Lippman

by stormkite on Wed Nov 21st, 2007 at 12:38:22 AM EST
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