Bush, Cheney lied about Plame, ex-press chief says

Bush, Cheney lied about Plame, ex-press chief says | MATT APUZZO | Associated Press |
November 20, 2007 at 6:21 PM EST

WASHINGTON — Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.
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“There was one problem. It was not true,” Mr. McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. “I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice-president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.”

Mr. Bush's chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card. ...