In addition to the many renowned journalists who have
accused former Bush strategist Karl Rove of misrepresenting and rewriting
history in his new memoir “Courage
and Consequence”, one of
his close former colleagues in the Bush White House can be added to the list.
On Tuesday former Bush press secretary Scott
McClellan harshly rebuked Rove for absolving himself of personal involvement in
the Valerie Plame scandal, alleging that Rove privately confessed his role in
the leak to him and apologized for it three times.
"I think what you're seeing is that Karl is
continuing to live in his own world here," McClellan said in an appearance
on MSNBC's Countdown
with Keith Olbermann Tuesday.
McClellan, whose own 2008 memoir “What Happened” revealed a slew of unflattering secrets about the
administration, told Olbermann that he did receive personal assurances from Rove
that he wasn't involved before McClellan relayed it to the press in his
capacity as press secretary.
In his book, Rove
vigorously defends former President Bush’s campaign to sell the war in Iraq,
insisting he never intended to deceive the American public.
McClellan noted that
the Bush administration's case for invading Iraq was based largely on the
notion that Saddam Hussein was an immediate danger to the United States, that
he was pursuing nuclear weapons, and was allied with Al-Qaeda, none of which
were true.
The truth is slowly coming out
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