One thing to keep in mind about the McClellan statement

[Poiuyt]

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.

This statement clearly implies that McClellan's superiors were behind the lying to the American public. Now McClellan's publisher is trying to back-track. But we have to remember, this wasn't some off the cuff statement that a reporter overheard. This was a passage from a book written by Scott McClellan. It was written, and re-written, and edited, and vetted. This statement was carefully thought out and carefully worded. I still believe that there is more to the story than the publisher is letting on. If McClellan wanted to exonerate Bush and Cheney, he wouldn't have worded that passage like he did.

[LakeSamish706]

1. Its really strange that he would come out with this, given his supposed...

feelings for the President... Hmmmmmm Certainly makes one scratch there head in wonderment....

[Buzz Clik]

5. This is exactly why he quit.

As goofy and evasive as McClellan was in his role as Press Secretary, he made every to either tell the truth or saying nothing at all. (This is in stark contrast to Ari Fleischer who lied endlessly and Tony Snow who simply made stuff up). When McClellan found that he was simply a tool in the Admin Lie Machine, he quit.

[NanceGreggs]

2. Precisely!

It wasn't off-the-cuff and, as you say, was written, re-written, edited and vetted.

The current back-tracking just smacks of a desperate desire to unring a bell that has already rung - loud and clear.

[Cha]

9. Which begs the question..

If they were going to ring it that strongly what made them try to unring it after it was already rung loud and clear?

[Lex]

3. " . . . and the President HIMSELF."

The HIMSELF is there precisely to emphasize the word President.

[Berry Cool]

4. Exactly what I was thinking.

Now he's going to say Bush was "involved," but not say how? I.e., that he told Scotty to pass along information he knew was false when he asked him to pass it along?

I smell the distinct odor of backpedaling bullshit.

[emanymton]

6. This Is A Teaser. Designed To Increase Sales. `````

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Wordsmith. Don't get your hopes up. No information will be coming out. In the end he implies, hoping others will infer. Then he will deny.

Standard tactic to hype book sales!
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[Lex]

8. Accusing the Pres. & VP of perjury is a "standard tactic?"

Hmmmmm.

[emanymton]

10. In The Teaser He Implies. What You Infer Is Up To You.

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He knows it and has 'made his bones' playing this game. He will parse his own statements. He has said what he knows what you want to hear.
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[Lex]

11. No inference needed.

The words mean what they mean.

[Crabby Appleton]

14. Perjury is lying under oath; I don't think there is an accusation

of perjury in that statement. I don't think this is going to amount to anything in the end.

[Lex]

16. Okay--of intentionally lying to the American people and encouraging

others to cover up the lies.

Of outing a CIA agent for political gain.

However you'd like to slice it.

[ladjf]

17. I don't think his statements "implied" anything. He said straight out

that he was given false information. He name five men who did it.

[TomInTib]

7. Correct. That passage had to pass through a multitude of filters and edits.

To think anything different would be incredibly naive.

[driver8]

12. Not only that, but what did he think would happen when this statment was made public?

He (Scotty) had to know that there would soon be a shit storm to follow.

Something is rotten in Denmark...

[Generic Brad]

13. Maybe Scott wrote it that way unknowingly

[defendandprotect]

15. Scott McClellan is the son of Barr McClellan, who names LBJ in JFK coup ----

Family
Born in Austin, Texas, McClellan is the youngest son of Carole Keeton Strayhorn, former Texas state comptroller and former 2006 independent Texas gubernatorial candidate, and attorney Barr McClellan. McClellan's brother Mark McClellan headed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and formerly was Commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration. McClellan is the grandson of the late W. Page Keeton, longtime Dean of the University of Texas School of Law and renowned expert in tort law.

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As Madelaine Brown --- LBJ's mistress --- makes clear ---
LBJ was plotting the assassination for two years ---
Of course, there were a large circle of allies ---

Barr McClellan's book is "Blood, Money & Power" --
"How LBJ Killed JFK" ---

by noted LBJ authority and Personal Attorney Barr McClellan

Barr McClellan's story was also included in "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" series --- the final episodes --- which seem to have been destroyed.

Additionally, A&E also ran a documentary around the same time on the Tunnheim Panel ---
the 1992 JFK Assassination Classified Records Act set up by Clinton ---
and he confirmed that the panel had concluded that . . .

"OSWALD WAS EMPLOYED BY THE CIA WORKING ON HIGH LEVEL ASSIGNMENTS AND PROBABLY ALSO FOR THE FBI."

Tunnheim repeats this twice at the end of the documentary ---
with the TEXT appearing below as he speaks.

[rocktivity]

18. The book can't have been vetted--it hasn't been completed.

And do you honestly think the passage would still be in the book if it HAD been vetted? I think Scotty's hoping to stir up a little trouble here--and NOT simply in order to sell his book.

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rocknation