Scott McClellan on Democracy Now- 2/5

Ex-White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan Speaks Out on the Bush Admin Lies and Media Allies that Led the US to War

The former White House press secretary joins us for the hour on the heels of his explosive new book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception. McClellan says former White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby lied to him about their role in the CIA leak case, criticizes the corporate media for acting as "complicit enablers" in what he calls the Bush administration's deliberate manipulation of the public to build support for invading Iraq, and recounts the White House's response to Hurricane Katrina as one "in denial." McClellan also reveals the suffering of Iraqi civilians seemed to be of little concern at the White House, where he says the massive death toll from the US invasion was seldom discussed. And he explains his own personal transformation from Bush administration mouthpiece to a critic of conscience and why he's now sympathetic to the journalist I.F. Stone's famous advice to young reporters: "governments lie." [includes rush transcript]

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[akamal1113]

joseph geobels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister, said " A lie if repeatedly put out it becomes the truth"

Bush and his people have on their right hand the Iraqi people's blood and left hand the dead American soldier's blood. I wonder what they would say on the Day of Judgement before God.

[johnnyk67]

"In making the case for war, the administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent," the Committee chairman, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, said on releasing the 172-page report. "As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed."

[johnnyk67]

The report said that Bush, Cheney, Rice all said things that weren't supported by the facts. It said that they exagerrated the truth and outright lied. Many CIA and State Dept officials have come forward to detail how the Bush Administration lied us into war, relying on unconfirmed data. The 2002 NIE stated that there were serious doubts about Hussein's WMD program. The Senate report confirms that Bush said things that he knew were false, as did Cheney. Do some more research, TruthnPolitics.

[TruthnPolitics]

johnnyk67

This is all hindsight. The President and the Senate all believed at the time it was the right thing to do based on intelligence reports received. It's always easy in retrospect to say I or we should have done something different. The thing that is wrong with Scott and his book is he twists the truth to imply Bush did something wrong. Hopefully in the future our intelligence reports and those of our allies will be more accurate

[johnnyk67]

The report last week from the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed everything Scott claimed in his book.

[johnnyk67]

How ironic is it that a YT user called "TruthnPolitics" is defending the most secretive, dishonest, and corrupt administration in history.

The report last week from the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed everything Scott claimed in his book. Cheney repeated that Atta, Prague charge over and over even though the CIA claimed no connection. The repot also mentions some of the 934 other lies.

Get a clue TruthnPolitics, and quit listening to Rush Limbaugh.

[mysticman07]

i think ur wrong about michael moore. he actually told the truth when it mattered!

[TruthnPolitics]

Scott McClellan You should make a movie like Michael Moore. Your both so believable...NOT!

Making money with your book of lies though, right? Money can corrupt some people and your one of them.