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McClellan details culture of secrecy in Bush White House
Summary from United States, from articles in English
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" There's a higher loyalty - a higher loyalty to the truth the former White House mouthpiece said of his scathing new tell-all book about the Bush administration. (article 2)
Keeping the chief spokesman und and thus the news media and the public und out of the loop at times is not unheard of, but President Bush has taken it to new lengths, Scott McClellan writes in his insider account. (article 6)
Then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice cut off Fleischer's authority to read notes on Bush's phone conversations with fellow world leaders. (article 6)
" No one charged with keeping the press and the public informed about the workings of the government should have to play such frustrating games McClellan writes. (article 6)
In hindsight, McClellan says he came to view the war as a mistake by a president and advisers swept up in a grand plan of seeding democracy in the Middle East by overturning Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime. (article 5)
In the first major insider account of the Bush White House, one-time spokesman Scott McClellan calls the operation "insular, secretive and combative" and says it veered irretrievably off course as a result. (article 7)
" I guess that last vestige of decency is gone said Ari Fleischer, who was Bush's first press secretary. (article 3)
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Other stories about McClellan, Bush and Iraq:
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McClellan, Bush, Iraq, WHITE, War |
Source articles
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > THE O'REILLY FACTOR (FOX News, 06/03/2008, 1420 words)
- RECIPE FOR A BESTSELLER (NY Post, 06/04/2008, 484 words)
- McClellan: A Bush turncoat, or truth-seeker? (Washington Post, 06/04/2008, 796 words)
- McClellan plays the blame game (boston.com, 06/04/2008, 660 words)
- McClellan says he believed in Bush as war started (Washington Post, 06/04/2008, 751 words)
- McClellan details culture of secrecy in Bush White House (Washington Post, 06/04/2008, 1006 words)
- Former spokesman bashes Bush in new book (Washington Post, 06/04/2008, 373 words)
- McClellan: Bush should have fired Rove (Washington Post, 06/04/2008, 349 words)
- Columnists: William McKenzie (dallasnews.com, 06/03/2008, 319 words)
- What I'd rather read (boston.com, 06/02/2008, 695 words)
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