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Scott McClellan has his publisher release the following snippet from his upcoming book:
"The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak
on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to
find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house
briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights
for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the
senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.
"There was one problem. It was not true. "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 is akin to OJ Simpson's attempt at his tell all - "If I Did It" as an attempt to cash in on illegal acts that everyone knows were committed by the authors, but who, due to loopholes and lawyering have eluded prosecution.
OJ is presumably still scouring the globe for the killers of his ex wife (or is he now in jail again?) just as the CIA is presumably still scouring Iraq for those elusive WMD that we were told were there.
The mainstream media have taken the bait hook line and sinker on this obvious PR play. "Oh my god... Scott McClellan was told to lie"... only to have McClellan recant via the obvious "plausible deniability" built into his original statement -
"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."
"False information", in other words information that was not "true" and was "inaccurate" In other words: "er well you know, nobody actually lied, but no one told the truth, especially to me, and then I told everyone else..."
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