Tell-all author McClellan must tell all to House committee -- under oath

Scott McClellan, the president's former chief spokesman who wrote a tell-all book about the White House's "culture of deception" and how it hung him out to dry, will testify next week before a House committee about the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.

McClellan will testify under oath about what happened during the Plame affair and whether Vice President Dick Cheney told him to mislead the public about how Plame's identity was leaked to several journalists.

The hearing is scheduled for June 20 before the House Judiciary Committee.

"I'll tell them what I know," McClellan said Monday night on MSNBC's "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, as they discussed McClellan's book, "What Happened."

For more on the story, click here. And watch the MSNBC video below.

-- Andrew Malcolm

Photo: Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will testify next week before a House committee about the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. Credit: Associated Press

Comments

[jack]

say what you want about this guy, he is putting his freedom on the line and putting his money where his mouth is. i want every one of his accusers to go under oath as well and contradict his claims. but somehow, i'm guessing this won't happen.

[Kerry]

Am I the only one who noticed that the reaction from the white house was words of confusion and shock by Scott's comments and nothing about denying allegations in specific terms?

And then the nuts who say "oh, he's just trying to make money on his book." If his book is full of lies why doesn't the administration sue him for slander? I think it's about time to see someone with the balls to not be afraid to speak their mind on issues they didn't agree with...Yes, it's after the fact, but Scott come from Bush's past in Texas when a large number of people never gave him the time of day...A staunch Bush backer and believer in him...

And for those who say "Bush was right-on for going to war in Iraq." Tell that to the families of over 4,000 dead and 30,000+ wounded seriously it was the right thing to do...We did that in Korea and Vietnam and there were still people willing to follow our leaders like sheep into an unjust war (granted this Iraq war was based on lies)....And this one has been proven to manipulated along the way to seel it by exposing an agent and talking about mushroom clouds (the only mushroom could was in Bush's & Cheney's heads) They got us there on the back of over 3,000 civilians deaths on 9/11...

Shame on this pathetic government and the fools who still agree with them...Hey, I have an idea, let the Bush administration and their believers in this war finish the job of the surge...Good riddance to all concerned!!!

[yumavigilant]

Mr. Scott McClellan: Please while testifying try to remember what the Bush administration and Attorney Generals Al Gonzales, John Ashcroft, and US Attorney Johnnie Sutton knew about federal law enforcement agencies covering-up and protecting a confidential informant accused of committing several murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, accross the El Paso, TX. NarcoNews.com covered such incidents in appx. 70 reports under the title "The House of Death"

Thank you!

Dr. Miguel A. Contreras

[steve]

I guess he has a price. Who knows what it is. It may be his 15 min. it may be $, or maybe a politician promised him a position of power.

It seems sad that the dumbo-crats are still whining and complaining over something that was solved years ago.

But that is what they do best, whine, moan, point fingers, blame and cry. That is all politicians are good for anymore. Cowards, the whole lot of them.

[steve]

Oh, I forgot to mention that this is also a non-issue that was made into a huge deal. She was not a cover op... or top secret anything really. And everyone knows who leaked it... it wasn't anyone in the white house.

But ... this is your tax dollars at work. And your politicians. That is what they are good for now.

[david]

McClellan is a real American!

[Deeptoad]

@steve

So, the Dems are the ones who like to whine and point fingers over non-issues? I seem to recall the Pubs doing the PRECISE same thing over an issue that was none of their business to begin with. They witch-hunted to the point of being embarrassing.

This is a little bit different, you see. Dem or Pub doesn't enter into it. This is about an administration that may have willingly pushed us into an illegal, undeclared and unConstitutional war over a string of flagrant lies and half-truths. The results are so many deaths of innocent people, a plundering economy and lack of defense on our own shores.

It's time for people like you to stop defending these criminals for that is precisely what they are. Defend your country and your Constitution -- not these felons.