Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush �veered terribly off course,� was not �open and forthright on Iraq,� and took a �permanent campaign approach� to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled �What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington�s Culture of Deception� (Public Affairs, $27.95):
� McClellan charges that Bush relied on �propaganda� to sell the war.
� He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
� He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be �badly misguided.�
� The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them � and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
� McClellan asserts that the aides � Karl Rove, the president�s senior adviser, and I. Lewis �Scooter� Libby, the vice president�s chief of staff � �had at best misled� him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame�s identity.
Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled �What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington�s Culture of Deception� (Public Affairs, $27.95):
� McClellan charges that Bush relied on �propaganda� to sell the war.
� He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
� He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be �badly misguided.�
� The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them � and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
� McClellan asserts that the aides � Karl Rove, the president�s senior adviser, and I. Lewis �Scooter� Libby, the vice president�s chief of staff � �had at best misled� him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame�s identity.
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