Yahoo Misses On McClellan

                        leadem 24

         A day after my disection of the Scott McClellan affair, Yahoo has an interesting article about press secretaries, and people who work for Presidents in general, writing books about their experiences. It was fun to see all the old names we used to read about and hear on the news; Max Robinson out in the snow, telling the story, as invented, that day.

           But the search engine misses the point when it fails to explain that McClellan is actually talking about a potential crime. A real deal conspiracy that may currently make our country less safe than it was a half decade ago.

            We'll never know what Valerie Plame meant to the security of our nation. We do know that Bush 40 thief's DAD had declared that the outing of covert American agents was a crime that should be punished to the fullest.  Scooter Libby has already been convicted of perjury in regard to the subject that McClellan released (and how much do you think he got paid for that simple act, in addition to his advance for the finished book?).

          In two paragraphs McClellan has advanced the Valerie Plame lawsuit further than Pat Fitzgerald did in 2 years. And Fitzgerald got a conviction! Commuted by Cheney, of course, but for Yahoo to present this book as another gossip tome is journalism status quo of the most insipid.

          Nobody in their right mind is going to equate Bill Clinton lying about Lewinsky with the Bush administration saying Iraq, of all countries, could reach the U.S. with a nuclear bomb in 45 minutes. I don't even need an analogy to make that funny!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071123/ap_en_ot/press_secretary_books_15