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McClellan’s tell-all implicates Bush in Plame scandal

From ThinkProgress:
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will publish a memoir in April titled “What Happened.” In an excerpt posted by his publisher, McClellan implicates “the President himself” in the Valerie Plame scandal:
“The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost [...]

Jury could not buy Libby’s forgetfulness claim

From the outset, as legal experts saw it, the case against I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was simple — and hard to defend.
When asked by the FBI and later by the grand jury about CIA agent Valerie Plame, Libby said he first learned of her in mid-July of 2003 when NBC reporter Tim Russert told him [...]