Scott McClellan's Revenge
McLellan's finally spoken out about why he has written the book that he has written. He talks of his "disappointment" that Bush turned out not to be "a uniter not a divider" and that Bush got caught up playing the Washington game.
He then says that most Americans want that kind of politics to change, which sounded like he might cast his vote for Obama.
He declines to say that they "threw him under the bus" but it's clear that he was angered by being caught between Libby and Rove and being sent to the podium to tell lies on their behalf.
He talks of the disappointment he felt on discovering that Bush was behind the declassification of the national intelligence estimate on Iraq, giving Libby permission to talk publicly. McLellan had, of course, been saying publicly how seriously the president took the leaking of classified information.
When McLellan confronts Bush and asks if it was, in fact, him who "authorised the leaking of this information?" Bush replied, "Yeah, I did."
At this point McLellan knew it was time to get out.
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