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Committee chairman John Conyers says McClellan's book "suggests that senior White House officials may have obstructed justice and engaged in a cover-up" in the outing of Valerie Plame, the CIA employee whose identity was revealed as part of a White House effort to discredit her husband. What Conyers "suggests," however, may also be misleading. The book adds some new details about Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's involvement in the Plame outing, but there's nothing there to build a case on. For his part, McClellan says he doesn't have much more to offer...
Still, Democrats seem most interested in raking over the Plame story in search of any remaining political sparks with which to light an election-year fire. It appears they are hoping that the White House will do something stupid, like try to stop McClellan from testifying. Democrats tried to spook the White House by inflating the potential value of McClellan's testimony. McClellan himself hired the high-profile husband-and-wife legal team of Michael and Jane Tigar to defend him in case the Administration does try to play hardball. The Tigars specialize in defending unpopular clients - from accused Nazi...
...supposed search for nuclear fuel in Africa. McClellan's book sheds a little more light: Cheney called Bush the morning of Oct. 4, 2003, and Bush then ordered McClellan to tell the media that Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, had nothing to do with the Plame leak. Libby was later shown to have indeed leaked her identity, and was convicted of obstructing the inquiry into the scandal. (Bush commuted the sentence.) But we still don't know if Bush or Cheney knew they were peddling a lie in defending Libby or the other White House leaker...
Much of his venom is saved for those involved in the Valerie Plame affair. He accuses Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, of misleading him about their role in the scandal, which caused him to effectively lie to the press. When the truth comes out, he receives a whipping at the hands of the White House reporters. "I could feel something fall out of me into the abyss as each reporter took a turn whacking me," he writes. "It was my reputation crumbling away, bit by bit. And my affection for the job eventually followed...
...loathe what he called the U.S.'s mistreatment of leftists there. His 1975 best-selling book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, critiqued U.S. policy and named purported CIA operatives, enraging U.S.officials and inspiring the U.S. law criminalizing the exposure of covert agents (which later figured in the Valerie Plame case). After living in Germany for years, Agee, whose U.S. passport was revoked in 1979, moved to Havana to start a travel website that encourages U.S. tourism in Cuba. He was 72 and died after ulcer surgery...