McClellan Joins 'Not My Fault' Chorus

Politico's Mike Allen writes:

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.

This adds Scottie to people like Douglas Feith who insist that all that crazy stuff that happened in the Bush administration wasn't their fault -- that was all those neocon crazies like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

We're supposed to forget they would've been in a unique position to stop these crazies or that they were one of them. Still we get a little truth-telling.

clipped from www.politico.com • 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.