Originally Posted by
tomder55
In fact as I read the quote ,it has nothing to do with the Plame case.
Gee, I am not even sure how to have a discussion here if you do not think that quote had anything to do with the Plame case. Are you being serious or facetious?
The quote again seems fairly self-evident, but let's peek again:
... "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...."
Yes, he was talking about the WMD's with the press as always - as he had to many times and I would guess any press secretary would have to deal with these days as people still recoil from the truths being revealed.
Ok, moving on... as did the press conference;
"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."
I am not sure how one might interpret that as having nothing to do with the Plame case?
He was dealing with the main fall guy from the case. Scooter Libby. Yes?
As for your other Larry King reference - that was from March '07.
By your own definition...isn't that rather dated?
In any case, I never thought Scooter deserved all the heat. No one with even a marginal examination of this case did so....In fact, I think Scooter's novel: "The Apprentice" (that includes scenes on bestiality and... rape) seemed more worthy of a sole public flogging than did Scooter. There were clearly people above him involved... He was just easier to take the fall as the bottom guy on the ladder and then pardon... And Scott McClellan was used as fall guy as well. It was good to finally see him put his conscience down on paper - better late than never.