House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D Mich.) Scott McClellan Voluntarily Appeared Before House Judiciary Committee And Testified About The Valerie Plame Leak. Doesn’t Think Bush Was Involved, Cheney He Doesn’t Know If Involved. Basically It Was A Book Promotion.
On Friday, June 20, 2008 Scott McClellan appeared before the House Judiciary Committee voluntarily and testified under oath as to his knowledge about the leak of C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame’s name to the press. He testified he didn’t believe President Bush either knew or was involved in the leak. As to Vice President Cheney’s role he didn’t know the extent if any. He referred to Patrick Fitzgerald’s statement that the conduct of Scooter Libbey , Cheney’s aide, cast a cloud over the Vice President’s office. Fitzgerald was the prosecutor in the Libbey case.
Libbey was convicted of obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI but not for the disclosure of Plame’s identity to the press.
McClellan testified that the White House and the Vice President have not been forthright in disclosing the details and motivation for the Plame disclosure.
While concurring with the validity of the House Judiciary Committees investigation into the firing of the U.S. Attorneys and the Plame leak he had nothing of a substantive nature to add to the investigation
Basically he seems to have been given an opportunity to publicize his book.
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See they're wasting the taxpayers money chasing ghosts while McClellan is getting free publicity for his "tell all book". Yet when he testify s he says he doesn't know anything and gets away with it.