Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Thursday on the Today Show that his disappointment with the Bush administration prompted him to write a tell-all book and said he doesn
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While the Bush Administration is making clear that allegations coming former White House press secretary Scott McClellan are "total crap" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes McClellan is absolutely correct.
"I totally agree," Pelosi said during an editorial board meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle.
''This is a person who was talking to the press, supplied with information that he trusted to be truthful," Pelosi told the paper. "So I'm sure he felt zapped. Because what could he say, except what he trusted to be the case?''
''I almost wonder how anybody associated with this war, unless they were of completely different philosophy, would not come to the conclusion that this war is a grotesque mistake, that it was misrepresented from the start, not prepared for correctly."
Former White House counselor Dan Bartlett tells CNN that claims from former White House press secretary Scott McClellan that the media was too easily manipulated by the Bush Administration are "total crap."
It's almost like we're witnessing an out-of-body experience," Bartlett said of McClellan. "We're hearing from a completely different person we didn't have any insight into."
Bartlett added that intimates of the president feel McClellan has violated his trust. "Part of the role of being a trusted adviser is to honor that trust," said Bartlett. "It's not your place now to go out" and criticize the president like this.
"What did he really believe when he was serving as press secretary?" Bartlett asked.
John Bolton, the former ambassador to the United Nations, will have to avoid a "citizen's arrest" as he speaks tonight at the Hay Festival in Wales.
George Monbiot, a columnist for British newspaper the Guardian, accuses the former Bush administration official of being a "war criminal" for his role in planning the Iraq War.
The director of the festival tells the London Telegraph that "the Hay Festival has sought the advice of both police and lawyers, and has been unequivocally assured that a citizen
Former White House adviser Karl Rove hit back at former White House press secretary Scott McClellan on Fox News Tuesday night, after news broke that McClellan accuses Rove and Scooter Libby, the former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, of conspiring to get their story straight as the Valerie Plame scandal broke.
Rove says McClellan never voiced his concerns and lobbing the charges now makes him "sound like a left wing blogger."
Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (D) believes former White House adviser Karl Rove will go down in history for his "devious and evil" tactics.
Siegleman told The Huffington Post's Sam Stein, "I think Rove is probably the most devious and evil political operative who has been trained to come on to the political scene in certainly the last fifty years."
"I can't think of anybody in the annals of history who could even rival this man's pernicious thoughts."
Rove was subpoenaed last week by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) who is investigating the politicized use of the Justice Department by the White House, including bribery charges brought against Siegelman for which the Democratic Governor served two months in jail.
Siegelman has said that once the investigations are completed, the scandal "will make Watergate look like child's play."
On Sunday, Rove did not deny his involvement in the Siegelman investigation, telling ABC's George Stephanopoulos only that "I found out about Don Siegelman's investigation and indictment by reading it in the newspaper."
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino says President Bush is not bothered by some criticism lobbed at the administration by John McCain.
"The President believes it's our turn to try to help him, and we'll do that in whatever way he needs," Perino told reporters during Tuesday's gaggle.
"But at the end of the day, in November it will be John McCain who wins because he stood on his own two feet and talked about how he would lead the country in the future. It's not about looking back; it's about looking forward."
After having trouble casting the part, Rirchard Dreyfus has signed on to play Dick Cheney in Oliver Stone's upcoming movie "W" chronicling President Bush's rise to power, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
As The Briefing Room reported earlier Stone has cast Josh Brolin as Bush and Elizabeth Banks as First Lady Laura Bush. Both are pictured below in their roles on the cover of Entertainment Weekly.
The House has voted to override President Bush's veto of the farm bill by a vote of 316-108, only two short of the vote a week ago approving the farm bill.
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