Wexler: McClellan Must Testify Under Oath Before House Judiciary Committee

[maddezmom]

Source: Wexler.house.gov

Wexler: McClellan Must Testify Under Oath Before House Judiciary Committee
Former White House Aide's Revelations Make Out Case for Obstruction of Justice by Rove and Libby in Valerie Plame Case
(Washington, DC) Today Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) called for former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify under oath regarding the devastating revelations made in his new book on the Bush Administration’s deliberate efforts to mislead the American people into the Iraq War.

“The admissions made by Scott McClellan in his new book are earth-shattering and allege facts to establish that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby – and possibly Vice President Cheney - conspired to obstruct justice by lying about their role in the Plame Wilson matter and that the Bush Administration deliberately lied to the American people in order to take us to war in Iraq. Scott McClellan must now appear before the House Judiciary Committee under oath to tell Congress and the American people how President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and White House officials deliberately orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq to the American people.”

“The allegations by this former top White House aide – that Rove and Libby deliberately coordinated their stories in order to obstruct justice in the Plame case, that the President deliberately disregarded contradictory evidence related to Iraq, should outrage every American and Congress must respond by initiating immediate aggressive oversight starting with an appearance by McClellan before the House Judiciary Committee. Any continued obstruction by this Administration to prevent White House officials from appearing before Congress cannot be tolerated by this Congress in the face of these shocking revelations.”




Read more: http://wexler.house.gov/apps/list/press/fl19_wexler/050...

[gateley]

1. I love Wexler! nt

[Ian David]

18. The Mustache of Justice Rides Again! n/t

[wryter2000]

26. That's Waxman

I get their names mixed up, too. But Henry Waxman is the Mustache of Justice.

[Ian David]

30. Oh, yeah. You're right. Thanks! n/t

[murielm99]

31. Mustache of Justice!

I love it.

[wryter2000]

57. That's what Christy Harvey calls him n/t

n/t

[Quantess]

70. Let's see if I have this straight:

Here's Robert Wexler


Here's Henry Waxman

[progdonkey]

99. Wexler's the guy who loves cocaine and prostitutes...

..."because it's a fun thing to do."

http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml...

He's awesome: serious about government, but has a healthy sense of humor.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

56. OVER 4000 DEAD AS A RESULT OF BUSH'S FOLLY

WHEN DO THEY GET LOCKED UP??????????????????

[freefall]

93. You forgot all the dead Iraqis and Afghanis. It's really over a

million dead. Which doesn't quite put Bush at the level of a Stalin or Hitler but he's getting there. Your figure also doesn't include all those military personnel who have committed suicide or died from injuries after returning from the occupation.

Peace,

freefall

[ingac70]

2. Scott opened a can of worms.

Love it!

[SharonRB]

5. And this shouldn't surprise him at all. n/t

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[ingac70]

16. You know...

folks have been writing books about what goes on in the Bush WHite House for years, and no one paid a bit of attention, save for a little attention to those actually in the Admin.

[Voice for Peace]

19. Lawyers will read Bugliosi's book. Prosecutors.

[Baby Snooks]

20. See how they work...

See how they work. The hand is quicker than the eye. And of course despite all the revelations, well, Scott McClellan really doesn't have anything bad to say about Bush. Just everyone else.

[renate]

27. welcome to DU!

I saw Bugliosi's book in Costco today... that's a good sign that it's expected to be a best-seller.

[Patchuli]

81. We should advise everyone to read it!

I'm going to Costco soon...the gas is cheaper!

[madmax]

67. Welcome to DU!!

I hadn't heard about Bugliosi's new book. I met him in NYC where he signed his 'None Dare Call It Treason' re: The U.S.S.C giving Bush the 2000 Election. He's a fantastic guy, passionate and not your typical everday bleeding heart libral which lent him much cred with my Republican friends.

Hope you enjoy DU.

[Raster]

86. I don't think so. I believe they will work in synergy.

[Willo]

102. Interesting thanks and Welcome to DU

http://www.prosecutionofbush.com/index.php


EXCERPTS
Palpable Anger
By Vincent Bugliosi

My anger over the war in Iraq, some will say, is palpable in the pages of this book. If I sound too angry for some, what should I be greatly angry about — that a referee gave what I thought was a bad call to my hometown football, basketball, or baseball team, and it may have cost them the game? I don't think so.

Virtually all of us cling desperately to life, either because of our love of life and/ or our fear of death. I'm told there is a passage in a novel by Dostoyevsky in which a character in the story exclaims, "If I were condemned to live on a rock, chained to a rock in the lashing sea, and all around me were ice and gales and storm, I would still want to live. Oh God, just to live, live, live!"

So nothing is as important in life as life and death. We fear and loathe the thought of our own death, even if it's a peaceful one after we've outlived the normal longevity. We fear not only the loss of our own lives, but the lives of our parents and sisters and brothers, as well as our relatives and close friends. We don't think of our children too much in this regard because our children, in the normal scheme of things, are supposed to outlive us. When they die before us, the already hideous nature of death becomes unbearable. And that's when they die a normal and peaceful death from illness. If the death is from an accident, like a car collision, the death of the child, if possible, is even more unbearable.

http://www.prosecutionofbush.com/excerpt2p1.php

[TomInTib]

3. Blah, blah, blah...

Problem is, the Dems don't have enough balls between the lot of 'em to make this happen.

[peace frog]

55. Much as I would like to disagree

you're right - the Dems have yet to display a pair of 'nads among the lot of them.

[Seabiscuit]

89. So far, just another story about a strongly worded speech full of sound and fury but

signifying nothing. We have been treated to so many speeches like this followed by utter silence that the silence is now deafening.

I'll actually be very, very surprised (and pleasantly so) if they ever actually put Scotty under oath, or for that matter, if we even hear anything at all about this matter again.

No spine, no nads. How does that song go? "No balls at all"?

Oh, yeah...

"Hitler has only got one ball
Goering has two but very small
Himmler's are very similar
And Goebbels has no balls at all."

Dedicated to the Dems in Congress since 2001 a.d.

[SharonRB]

4. YES!

This is exactly what I said to my husband last night during Countdown -- Congress needs to call him in and put him under oath to testify about all this. I knew someone like Wexler or Conyers wouldn't let this go by.

[bdamomma]

65. yes, start with the little fish and you may catch the big fish.

and Cheney and Rove on right on that list.

[habitual]

6. K&R n/t

[grasswire]

7. see? that's step two.

1. McClellan shows a little bit of ankle, hoping the authorities will know he has something to trade.

2. Wexler takes the bait.

3. McClellan seeks immunity from prosecution and gets it.

4. Under oath before Congress, McClellan forgets everything he saw and heard and did in the WH.

[liberalcanuck]

24. I wonder how #4 works if he wrote a book detailing his time in the WH nt

[KSinTX]

37. He wrote a book not under oath. Coulda been fiction

[Wednesdays]

46. How does it work? Easy, he'll be a no-show like so many others

Upon which the Congressional committee will then issue a strongly-worded letter...

[Frank Cannon]

60. You forgot step #5

5. Congress says nothing to see here. Go home everybody. And then they pat themselves on the back for "investigating".

[tanyev]

8. Stay off small planes, Scotty.

[tctctctc]

64. Stay off of jets, too.

Get that man some neutral security forces.

[beac]

88. Hey! You stole my line!

[90-percent]

9. first impression

Scotty shouldn't be persecuted or made miserable too badly about all this. He should be applauded for the courage to write this book better late than never.

And its pretty courageous on his part to make such serious accusations while Bush is still in office. It's also pretty cool he went big with such sensitive explosive info. The dam is really starting to break with the release of this book!

And he likes the liberal media! Scotty is more noble than the rest of the current and former White House scum.

-90% Jimmy

[OwnedByFerrets]

32. I think it was timed perfectly for Scotty McLiarPants

if he waits till after Monkeyboy leaves office, no one cares. Now, he gets big buxx and lots and lots of attention. Win/win for Scotty boy.

[Quantess]

85. Who knows. He might be having some remorse.

When he was press secretary, he was doing what he was told to do. Follow orders or lose your job.

Haven't you ever had a job where you had to do things you didn't feel good about, but you did it anyway? And then once you left the job, you told everyone about the lousy company policies you had to follow?

[lovuian]

10. Where is Fitzgerald

Any comment

[maddezmom]

14. I've been checking all day, haven't seen one

yet...I hope.

[kimmerspixelated]

22. I know! Where is dear Patrick!!!!

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Waxman jumped on this fast great job. Take Senator Feinstein's Seat please?

I hope he sets the hearings soon.

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[Wednesdays]

48. Is this necessarily an either/or situation?

If anything, the subjects of the books compliment and amplify each other.

[KoKo]

98. Do you believe that Bugliosi's book would get any play in this Media?

It will be ignored or laughed at. But, taken in tandem with Scotty's revelations...that gives Bugliosi's book alot more credibility. The revelations in McClellan's book are why Bush/Cheney need to be prosecuted for lying us into a war and for being responsible for outing a CIA Agent.

[Dogtown]

12. K&R n/t

[Fovea]

13. Once, many years ago

a friend of mine accidently set the foot of a 132 lb anvil on a bit of his scrotum while seating it on a new stump.

I think that by the time Scott is done, Karl Rove will make the same noise, and Dick Cheney will diaphorese in the same manner.

[Ian David]

17. Rove and Libby Libby Libby's going to jail jail jail! n/t

[OwnedByFerrets]

33. A Mama listener, huh?

[Phred42]

21. I'll Beleive it when I see it

If anything comes of this that it.

Specter, Conyers and Wexler have been like Lucy holding the Football for Charlie Brown...... Run as fast as you want to at that ball.....You know what's going to happen

[UNCLE_Rico]

23. Seems to be some misunderstanding about WHO is saying this...

It's not Henry Waxman, it's Robert Wexler (D-FL).

Whoever, it's still good news, assuming they muster the cajones to pull this off.

I have a feeling it's gonna be REAL difficult for Scotty to weasel out of what he wrote in his own book in front of the Democratic-controlled Congress...

[katty]

25. great, bring him on!

[lligrd]

28. Earth-Shattering?

Come on Wexler, we've known this since they did it. Better late than never, but still ...

[Dangerously Amused]

29. Please, PLEASE make this one stick! K&R

[Mountainman]

34. Scotty needs secret service protection and has got to stay off small planes.

Don't want him to get Wellstoned!

[bluesmail]

35. On Air America's Thom Hartman Ellen Ratner said

Scott was the nicest person she'd ever met. I'm in a believing mood, don't any DUer distract me with Doughboy BS.

[bleever]

77. I'm of the same opinion.

Scotty was fiercely loyal, and got burned badly by the people he was serving. He's not the kind of serpent that Ari Fleischer is.

[40ozDonkey]

36. Wexler is a rare breed - a Florida politician who doesn't embarrass us.

Thank God I live in his district.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

41. He has worked tirelessly, it seems ,since the 2000 election steal

He was really a hero in that debacle - representing Broward County? - it is refreshing he has not folded since then, and still actually REPRESENTS his constituents. He seems to have real integrity! I am happy for you that you have that kind of representation. So many of us do not.

[40ozDonkey]

49. Yep, some Broward but mostly the Palm Beaches.

I've gotta head out to dinner soon, but I want to share a little anecdote.

I e-mailed Wexler around spring of '05, angry about Sudan's actions and asking him to do whatever he could to get the United States to officially call it a genocide. I got a stock reply back in my e-mail, as I expected.
What I didn't expect was that 5 months later, he sent a letter to my home (I didn't include my address in my e-mail) thanking me again for contacting his office about this issue of mutual concern. He included an editorial he had written to the Sun-Sentinel entitled "Never Again, Again?" and reminded me to write to him in the future with any questions or comments I may have.

I wish the Wex on everybody, he's a great local representative who has the morality and energy to not only stand up for his constituents but for people who could never vote for him or offer anything in return.

What a mensch!

[KSinTX]

38. Dick Gregory is blowing a gasket!

He's blaming Congress, the WH, the AMERICAN PEOPLE for god's sake because they (the media) f'ed up. Talk about screwing the pooch!

[Kelvin Mace]

39. Another subpoena that will be ignored

and bold talk that will get us nowhere.

[acmavm]

43. People act like this is the first time an 'insider' told the public that this bunch

of lying thugs ginned up the 'intellgence' to get us into this mess.

[drm604]

76. I'm not so sure. This is different from the others.

He did write the book after all, so it seems like he wants these facts to come out. He may be very cooperative and not even try to duck the subpoena. I'm not 100% sure that he won't try to fight it but I'm optimistic that he'll be cooperative.

Of course it will then be his word against their's, but if they won't refute him under oath then I would think that they will lose any claim to credibility.

[Kelvin Mace]

105. Well, testifying

will boost sales, so on reflection, Little Scotty will be happy to talk.

[tblue37]

40. HA HA HA HA HA!!!! n/t

[Jefferson23]

42. McClellan Had to know this was going to be the next step, right??

I would love to have been a fly on the wall of McClenan and his editor and their attorneys..lol
I truly hope he goes for the truth, we need someone to TALK the TRUTH. Where are you Pelosi???

[KansDem]

45. "Where are you Pelosi???"

Oh, the irony! So far, McClellan and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) look to be the only ones willing to take down this criminal administration.

Let's hope the groundswell grows so much that the Dem leadership cannot continue to ignore it.

[maddezmom]

50. Pelosi's comment here

Pelosi Reacts to McClellan: ''I Totally Agree''

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a wide-ranging editorial board interview with The Chronicle today, offered her own views on the bombshell book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, who charges that the Iraq war was a bungled policy and the Administration was in ''damage control'' over Hurricane Katrina.

While she hasn't yet read McClellan's tome ''I totally agree'' with his charges, said Pelosi. ''This war was unnecessary. Katrina was a black mark on how the government responded to the needs of our people, and didn't anticipate them.''

''This is a person who was talking to the press, supplied with information that he trusted to be truthful. So I'm sure he felt zapped. Because what could he say, except what he trusted to be the case?''

''I almost wonder how anybody associated with this war, unless they were of completely different philosophy, would not come to the conclusion that this war is a grotesque mistake, that it was misrepresented from the start, not prepared for correctly,'' said Pelosi.

more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogi...

Now I wonder what she will do about it all.

[Number23]

62. Benefit of Doubt

'This is a person who was talking to the press, supplied with information that he trusted to be truthful.'

Sounds like Mme. Pelosi is just trying to give McClellan the benefit of the doubt. Because I don't think any thinking person actually believes that McClellan "trusted" the information supplied to him by Bush Inc. and thought it was "truthful." Hell, McClellan even comes reeeal close to saying that himself.

[lonestarnot]

72. Well how bout that.... hmmmmmf.

[Window]

44. WooHoo!

[katty]

47. Wexler to Scott: explain 'coercive democracy'-how does that work?

o yes, the shoving down their throats approach-got it.

[Oilwellian]

83. 'coercive democracy' or as Buchanan was describing it....

'democratic imperialism.' Insanity has set in and things are getting very Oilwellian.

[suffragette]

51. Good on Wexler

[NM Independent]

52. Hot Damn!!!!!!!!!

I don't think I've ever been "giddy."

I am today. I'm watching Tweety, and he's actually being pretty hard on himself while Gregory is squirming in his chair denying it (talking about the "liberal media" quote of the book).

Thank You Scott McClellan. However, you're not yet redeemed. You lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied, and lied. Time to tell the truth, and do it under OATH!

Impeachment time yet??




Hey Rove, are you about ready for your frogwalk?

[Auggie]

53. The genie's been let out of the bottle

[DutchLiberal]

54. Why do politicians still act like this is *news*? We all *know* this already!

McClellan told nothing new.

Cheney, Bush, Rove, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and all those others will never, ever get the punishment they deserve. They're cold-blooded war criminals with blood on their hands... hands that will be shaken enthusiastically by the rest of the 'world community', which screams and points about Sudan and Myanmar, but which let Bush and his gang of thugs walk away free --and so does the American congress and the people.

[happygoluckytoyou]

58. SOUNDS LIKE AN "ACCIDENT" IN THE MAKING

[penndragon69]

59. He will never be allowed to testify.

Bush will once again claim executive privilege and block any testimony under oath.

He does it every time his co-conspirators are called to testify.

The GOP blanket of silence will be tossed over another criminal member of the bush gestapo!

May they all burn in elephant HELL !

[lisa58]

61. YES, YES, YES!

come on Scotty - be a hero!

[bdamomma]

63. Yes, I even said this, get Scott under oath to tell Conyers committee

instead of on the media circuit, great news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kestrel91316]

66. Scotty will just claim "executive privilege" and head off on the talk show circuit.

[Myrina]

68. ... didn't he have to testify in the first Plame-Gate go'round?

If not, why not???

[matt007]

69. This just gets better and better :)

I wish I could sit int the committee room with a beer and kick back and watch the whole thing.

[pacalo]

71. Thanks for the book, Scottie. You really put the pin in the party hog now!

[truthisfreedom]

73. Most likely man in America to have an "accident" in the coming weeks, unfortunately.

How many Enron people are now conveniently dead? 3?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Stay out of planes, trains, and automobiles, Scotty!

[dixiegrrrrl]

74. He says "should outrage every American "

hell yeah, we been outraged for quite some time.

The fact Congress is not outraged seems to be the problem.

[williesgirl]

75. Go get these bastards! rec'd

[westcor]

78. I love cocaine, its a fun thing to do

Wexler rocks! I love the Colbert Report where Stephen gets Wexler to say he likes cocaine and prostitutes, hilarious...

Colbert Report/Wexler video

[Hulk]

80. Too funny!! Wexler is the man!

[KaryninMiami]

79. Now these are the actions of a FL Congressperson that we ALL can be proud of!

He's one of the best- three cheers for Robert Wexler!!!

Take Note Wasserman-Schultz- this is what a Congressperson who is doing his job-- looks like.

[rndmprsn]

82. K&R

[yodermon]

84. PLEASE, Waxman, subpoena the Plame Grand Jury

proceedings. Fitz telegraphed the availability of these to you (&/or conyers) back at the time of the Libby Sentence Commutation.

[Imagevision]

87. Scott's book has the potential to make watergate look like a cartoon...

[orleans]

90. yes!

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[cyclezealot]

91. This will be fun.

Thank you Rep. Wexler.

[freefall]

92. I wish I thought something would actually come of this but I admire

the Congressman for trying.

K&R

[Senator]

94. Question One: How Can We Not Impeach Now?

Not that they haven't had plenty of reason and evidence before this, but how weak and corrupt do they want to appear?

Failure to impeach has their poll numbers down near cheney's.

Failure to impeach has McCain as a shoe-in, once the BS-Wurlitzer and theives get busy (think not? stop reading euphemedia GOP sob stories and look at a poll).

Failure to impeach is foisting the liability for war criminality (falsely) onto the American People.

Now they've got Little Scotty rubbing their noses in their literal impotence.

Perhaps if Wexler can get him to do it in person, some of them might recall the oath they took and ACT upon it.

---

[panzerfaust]

95. If Only This Would Happen

But think it more likely that McClellan, or someone in his near family, might suffer a stroke, death in plane crash, tragic fall from window, or suicide in the near future?

[disndat]

96. This must be one of the most bizarre

period in history. The Bush WH committed the perfect crime of all centuries of histoy - from the stolen elction in '00, the Supreme Court complicity, and the MSM as well. The historians and scholars will examine every second of what went on, even before '00 leading to the biggest hi-jack of a country that ever happened.

[windoe]

97. There must be a reason why this trial hasn't begun

I believe that Wexler and others wanting to impeach and indict have had legal reasons for years.

I am trying to see it like the government sees it. How to begin, when to begin, such a huge trial? It does need to happen, but it needs to be managed as far as scope, strategy and public relations. If you think this campaign has completely eclipsed other news and focus away from war and economy and solving those problems, think about what this trial *can* do.

The trials against the last administration would require their own department (a tribunal), their own press and perhaps channel and would have to be managed in a way that does not interfere with the other functions of government, because the press as it now stands would turn this into a macabre circus.

I envision CNN running the ongoing trial perhaps for years. This trial needs to happen, but I feel there must be a challenge in avoiding a voyeuristic obsessive feeding frenzy, like a virtual witch hunt with the public parked in front of their monitors awaiting whose next to sit in the hot seat.

A sane mulltitasking administration, meanwhile will have to somehow pass other important legislation, to fix the foreign and domestic clusterf*cks created by the * administration.

I think we people have a responsibility here in keeping ourselves sane in facing the tasks ahead. The last administration really created a monster by enabling people (albeit against their will) to sit back and watch events unfold. While most people here are relatively proactive in their lives, there are obviously people who are merely reactive- and these are the people who can be manipulated to distort, distract and derail focus so that progress is slowed down considerably. I see this element as being the Achille's heel of the Left, we have always had a tendency to lose focus--because we are so diverse. So the challenge is to **stay focused**.

My post may appear to be jumping ahead, but I believe envisioning the next step is important here.

[pleah]

100. K&R, but, I'm not holding my breath for something to actually happen.

[jcla]

101. Just wondering why McClellan waited so long...

Had do the Republican thing write a book and make a profit instead of talking to House and Senate committees two years ago...
To change Bush's remarks after Katrina Debacle "Good Job, Scottie". What a spineless money grubbing .... Rethug.

[Usrename]

103. Wexler for Speaker!

[whistle]

104. Great, bring in McClellan and under oath he can verify everything that he published

...in his book and everything else he was afraid to disclose about these fascist thugs

[happydreams]

106. Faaaaakin' Brilliant!

Wexler knows what he's doing!!