From US News, 6/18/08:
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/politics/2008/06/18/gop-insiders-fret-about-what-former-white-house-spokesman-will-say.html
GOP Insiders Fret About What Former White House Spokesman Will Say
Ex-Press Secretary Scott McClellan is scheduled to testify before
House panel on Friday
By Kenneth T. Walsh
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's testimony before
the House Judiciary Committee, scheduled for Friday, has some
Republican insiders worried.
McClellan is expected to talk about his charges—made in his new book
and in media interviews—that President Bush ordered the 2003 leak of
****tions of a classified intelligence do***ent in order to discredit
Iraq war critics.
The committee members are also expected to quiz McClellan about the
inner workings of the White House and what McClellan calls Bush's lack
of candor about the need for the Iraq invasion.
White House officials are trying to play down the hearing.
Spokesman Tony Fratto told the Wall Street Journal that "congressional
Democrats will look for any bright, ****ny object to divert attention
from their embarrassing lack of accomplishment over the past two
years."
But other GOP strategists say McClellan's experience could underscore
one of the weak points of the West Wing—the conversion of the press
secretary's job, at least under McClellan, into what some call a
propagandist.
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