Huckabee: Bush's role in Plame leak should be 'investigated.' »
Posted by: hdthehn 9 months, 2 weeks ago159 Comments Report this Story
former Republican Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee called Scott McClellan's revelation that "the President himself" was involved in the Valerie Plame scandal "stunning." "They deserve to be thoroughly examined, investigated, and the truth brought to the American people," he said, adding that President Bush should person
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jovial9 months, 2 weeks ago
I wonder if the conservative enthusiasm for this candidate will be affected by this statement.
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gamahuche9 months, 2 weeks ago
My guess would be yes - negatively, as the bearer of bad news, even though its no surprise to anyone who followed the story with alert eyes, ears and nose.
OTOH some democrats might be positively influenced.
Unfortunately people frequently prefer to avoid ugly truths about their "leaders"; this is not uniquely a US characteristic.
It simply makes each day more unpleasant to have to face these realities.
Today especially is a horrible day to have to exclude your President from the list of things that you give thanks for!
Fortunately he's not OUR president and we will celebrate here without that concern.
A Happy Thanksgiving to everyone of whatever nationality, colour, creed, political persuasion!
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AnnaPeres5 months, 3 weeks ago
Where is the source? Thanks for googling it - how about providing the link that proves McClellan did NOT say any of those things about Bush and Rove? Russians blogged about it at http://partkom.com/2008/03/08/clintonobama-the-... but there must be more sources.
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slate9 months, 2 weeks ago
'I wonder if the conservative enthusiasm for this candidate will be affected by this statement'
Not at all,,,, I haven't made up my mind yet, but having the courage to say such a thing adds to his credibility IMO
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spkguy9 months, 2 weeks ago
I would say yea, this could affect him. But I don't know how any American after this news can listen to George Bush and believe anything he says unless you walk in lock step with him.
Remember Cheney and Bush gave there respective statements in private behind closed doors.
Keep in mind there respective testimony the public has never seen or had a chance to review it.
What congress has to do now is request or subpoena those transcripts and Fitzgerald needs to have look at Scott McClellan's transcript and possibly reopen his investigation.
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Searchbeam9 months, 2 weeks ago
spkguy,
A strange thought crossed my mind.
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald made some very special concessions for Karl Rove, including allowing him to take back his sworn statements.
All the while, there has been a strong rumor going around that Fitzgerald was a closet gay(of the Log Cabin Republican variety). My strange thought is that, if this rumor is true, his homosexuality may have been used by Rove to get those unusual accommodations from him. You know, like a blackmail!
You cannot really put anything past a dirty trickster like Rove!
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gamahuche9 months, 2 weeks ago
Its a shame that their belief system doesn't permit them to self-medicate with some more benevolent substances - or of they do they have to feel hypocritical which nullifies the benefits.
Speculating - my expertise on the brain functioning or lack thereof of Bush's minions is virtually nil.
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hyperbola9 months, 2 weeks ago
Well Spade, Republicans have been heavily into drugs for decades now. How do you think Rumsfeld go rich?
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hdthehn9 months, 2 weeks ago
This just in Fox News alert: Huckabee had sex with Bill and Hillary Clinton. News at 11:00
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Endoscopy9 months, 2 weeks ago
LOL
Go look at what Scott McClellan actually said. I googled it and this story is ridiculous. The person questioning the Mike Huckabee put words into the mouth Scott that were not said. He never mentioned any specific case. Everyone is reading between the lines to create their own story. Huckabee fell for it. Everyone here fell for it.
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Beau78909 months, 2 weeks ago
Here are McClellan's words about the response he was asked to give regarding the call for a probe into the outing of Plame:
"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."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/ar...
What part of this is not clear to you?
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Candida9 months, 2 weeks ago
What I find stunning is that anyone can find this revelation stunning. For anyone with a head of his/her shoulder, this has been clear as daylight for some time. I guess the only surprising thing is that one of them has finally opened his mouth a bit but, as far as I know, even McClellan says that Bush mislead the nation unintentionally. So what will Bush say when questioned (if ever)? He'll say that he believed that what he said was the truth.
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DarkWizard9 months, 2 weeks ago
Ignorance is no excuses for breaking the law. He may not have known the leak was intentional, but be assured he was involved in the cover-up. The ghost of Nixon will haunt the halls of Bush's deluded brain.
The video and song by Genesis, "Land of Confusion" is replaying through my mind. Different President, same old song.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin9 months, 2 weeks ago
that's the funny thing about the 'I don't recall' defense perfected by Reagan.
you are either guilty or incompetent. on either score, you are unfit to lead
take when people say Bush Inc wasn't lying to us, it was just a matter of following bad intel into Iraq
this leads to the second of only three possible conclusions: a) either our leaders lied to us, or b) they are utterly incompetent stumble-bums or c)are all clinicly insane
utterly pathological to defend these people by saying 'they didn't know'
it was their job to know
I have no idea what that has to do with anything. but I just had a random thought about it, and how another possible reason for BDS ['Bush Defense Syndrome'] is just straight denial.
People have been afraid to admit that we are being led by people who are either a) evil b) incompetent c)crazy or possibly the infamous choice of d) all of the above
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donald519 months, 2 weeks ago
All the repugs convicted under Watergate, Iran Contra and now Plamegate, may have served a little time (except scotter), but they were all pardonned by Repug Presidents.
The 1873 Supreme Court declared Indians (native that is) as "Un-American and dependant" so that the Repug Congress then could steal their lands, confine them to inhospitable land, and pick up lucrative contracts to provide for them (many more natives then died).
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bubba29 months, 2 weeks ago
I wouldn't paint Huckabee in such a fine light.
I live in Memphis, close enough to Arkansas to keep up with Huckabee's stint as governor, etc.
He raised taxes like there was no tomorrow while refusing remove sales tax from good and medicine, and he pardoned a convicted rapist who later on committed murder.
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aniokly9 months, 2 weeks ago
Check again. It seems, according to McClellens publisher he was misquoted. Bush never told him to do anything. You people are always jumping the gun, never checking the facts, and always looking stupid in the aftermath. Have a nice Thanksgiving anyway.
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Endoscopy9 months, 2 weeks ago
Google it. I did.
In a short, tantalizing excerpt from his forthcoming memoir posted on the Web site of Public Affairs Press, McClellan complains that he was duped into misleading the public and the media.
No mention of the Valerie Plame case. This is something that happens to anybody speaking for any president. They provide what they believe is accurate information and later it is found that once in a while it is not. Everybody does this by accident. You think you know something, you say it, and later you have to apologize.
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bubba29 months, 2 weeks ago
"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," writes McClellan in an excerpt from his book, What Happened, which is to be published next April by Public Affairs.
"There was one problem," the long-time Bush aide continues. "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."
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?...
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MRCOFFEECAKE9 months, 2 weeks ago
Heaven forbid we quote his video interview confirmations or what was written in HIS book, of which 400,000 copies were published after HE and HIS editors reviewed it and AFTER the person who interviewed him put it in written form.. After all, until Bush saw it, it can't be true unless he says it is true..Right?
Bush never covers up or witholds information in his commitment to honesty and justice.Right??
Just ask Colin Powell and 13 resigned generals, 5 admirals and 7 former cabinet and CIA members. They're all lying and Bush is telling the truth..
(but at least Rush limbaugh finally admitted that the "tough times are ahead for this economy")
As recently as last week he and hannity were calling it "historically vibrant"..These fools are your spokespeople!
Your undying support for Caesar would have been as pathetic as your blind support for a guy who deserves his same fate!
This is America's most shameful era of leadership and those who remain defending it are fools..
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1-2-Oscar9 months, 2 weeks ago
"HIS book, of which 400,000 copies were published after HE and HIS editors reviewed it and AFTER the person who interviewed him put it in written form.."
That sounds absolutely certain, but the book will not be printed until April, so it is impossible that 400,000 copies exist. The "revelation" was part of the publishers pre-publication "tease" to stir interest in the forthcoming money-maker.
It appears that they were successful in "stirring interest."
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hdthehn9 months, 2 weeks ago
Anickly
And the publisher is the ultimate authority on just exactly what Scotty's words mean. You spin it your way and others will spin it theirs. Get used to it and get over it. Or are you now the ultimate authority on what everybody's words mean?
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Aotearoa9 months, 2 weeks ago
The bush administration committed treason. They should be treated as traitors. They shame the white house by being there.
leve leva e malanga kae tau
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LumFan9 months, 2 weeks ago
I seriously doubt that they will go to "their villas in France". After all, this was the crowd that came up with the term "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" when referring to the lack of support in France for our Iraq policy. And let's not forget "Freedom Fries".
I would suggest some small country in the Caribbean where the banking laws are rather lax. A nice place where they can continue to call themselves Americans and live off their ill-gotten gains.
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MRCOFFEECAKE9 months, 2 weeks ago
Or do you mean the man who helped start the entire Iraq illegal occupation? Chalabi..Who fled to America from Jordan where they bwere after him for criminal fraud. He came here to make up enough of a story for Bush to be happy with for an excuse to invade Iraq, only to be found out to be a criminal and thief who had fled from Jordan,
to America, then Iraq and is now hiding in Iran (or some onther nearby nation)..
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hyperbola9 months, 2 weeks ago
Well bushie has bought himself a large "finca" in Paraguay. Why? Maybe it has to do with a long tradition of military dictatorships and the lack of an extradition treaty with the US.
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nikkibabe9 months, 2 weeks ago
Bush and his bunch of crooks are the ones who should be held for treason for revealing the identity of a CIA covert.
Where is that Kenneth Star?
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MRCOFFEECAKE9 months, 2 weeks ago
You finally got it right, but when you try to do a hit on the mob boss you get hit first..So, you are brilliantly hiding behind his cuffs still cowardly defending him for fear that your reputation will be damaged if you actually admit what a
despicable moron he has been and how much damage he has done..
Are you still agreeing with hannity that the economy is "vibrant" or have you at least finally joined Rush in admitting that "it is getting tough rocky"?
We knew that 2 years ago, but pride and stubborness are hard to swallow, even in the face of fact you would rather make things worse than admit your failures and move on..
What's wrong? Too late to blame Clinton?
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maxdee559 months, 2 weeks ago
Now Huckabee will be attacked by the neocons, they will get personal, malicious and cruel. It doesn't matter what the truth is, what laws were broken, or how it affects the country, their loyalty is designed to keep the party in power and that's all that matters. These are the same people who believe if you don't vote their way you shouldn't be allowed to vote, and in the next breath they preach about democracy, hypocrites to the end.
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hdthehn9 months, 2 weeks ago
Sniper-
We appreciate it when you don't bother us with your lists of lies and blind patriotic crapola. Salutes are reserved for those who demonstrate honor, dignity, decency and integrity. You know nothing of these things so as baddad59 said Shut TF Up.
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rightfromwrong9 months, 2 weeks ago
I am sure he was involved...he has an I.Q. of 91 which is one less than his father. Bush has always appeared vindictive. He has done so much to undermine the freedoms of Americans.
Smart Card is coming soon with a chip in it to track everyone. The internment camps are out there in isolated areas like the Dakotas.
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