McClellan Speaks Out

Sure to dominate conversation (and “Hardball” too?) today…

From the Politico’s breaking news alert: “Ex-White House spokesman Scott McClellan points finger at Bush, Cheney and Rove over passing false information to the public in the Valerie Plame affair.”

But McClellan lists five top officials as having allowed him inadvertently to mislead the public.

“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 seniormost aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby,” McClellan wrote.

“There was one problem. It was not true.”

McClellan then absolves himself and makes an inflammatory — and potentially lucrative for his publisher — charge.

“I had unknowingly passed along false information,” McClellan wrote.

“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.”

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