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June 10, 2008
Posted: 05:02 PM ET
FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty: President Bush probably isn’t looking forward to next Friday – that’s when former White House Spokesman Scott McClellan is set to testify before Congress. McClellan will appear before the House Judiciary Committee, publicly and under oath, concerning the White House’s role in leaking the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame in 2003. In his new book, McClellan writes that he was misled by administration officials, possibly including Vice President Dick Cheney, about the role of Scooter Libby in the leak. McClellan has said that both the president and vice president “directed me to go out there and exonerate” Libby. The Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Henry Waxman, is also trying to get his hands on more FBI documents about the leak. Meanwhile, here’s something else President Bush may want to keep his eye on: Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against the president last night. Kucinich believes Mr. Bush deceived the country and violated his oath of office by taking the U.S. into war in Iraq. He introduced a similar resolution last year calling for the impeachment of Cheney – that measure was killed. With so little time left in Bush’s term it’s highly unlikely the Democratic Congress will do anything with this new resolution either. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made it clear that impeachment is “off the table.” I still wonder who authorized Nancy Pelosi to make that determination. Something else we’ll probably never know. Here’s my question to you: How concerned should the Bush administration be about Scott McClellan’s upcoming testimony before Congress? Interested to know which ones made it on air?
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