So. Scott McClellen is going to testify under oath, in public, about what was going on in the White House when they decided to out a CIA agent. And it appears that the questions could widen:His hearing is expected to focus heavily on the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, an episode that McClellan has said was driven by political motivations from within the Oval Office. But the committee could press the former press secretary on other matters within its jurisdiction, including the possible authorization of torture by administration officials (though it remains to be seen how much knowledge McClellan has of that topic)
Things are getting hot in Washington, and not just the heat wave.
Photo from the White House website.
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What I find laughable about all this is everyone who is agast he wrote this book is still in some position of authority and saying this is not the person they know.
Someone acting a certain way in front of others to protect their job? Unheard of.
Tonight's news footage with McClellan responding to reporters in front of the brick residences of Washington was so reminiscent of Watergate, John Dean, and others. I could faintly detect the first smell of freedom.
Like the first strange and special whiff that accompanied the deafening opening guitar licks at a Grateful Dead concert. Living totally in the moment and that feeling of knowing you were 23 and you were RIGHT and that's ALL that mattered. They could kill you, but they couldn't prove you wrong. Then THEY were gone.
It was good to remember that feeling. Even if the current events don't carry quite the same weight the stakes are even higher this time. This hearing may be the closest thing to an impeachment we will get - could be too little too late but I'll take it.
Even if real justice is not delivered - I'm ready to take off the mask and smell something sweet again - and if, given time, it it gets to feeling real I may just go and look for a pair of bell bottoms !
M is McClellan, right ?
tick tock tick tock...
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