NEW YORK - Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary who angered old colleagues with a tell-all book earlier this year, said Thursday he is backing Barack Obama for president. McClellan is the second former administration official to back the Democratic candidate this week. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell came out Sunday for Obama. ...more

October 24, 2008

It should not go unnoticed that the attacks of the president and his staff on Scott McClellan have been largely restricted to laments about his lack of loyalty, rather than challenging the truth of his charges that Bush and company had planned the invasion of Iraq long before 9-11. The reason is quite simple. McClellan's charge is correct, right on the money. Long before the attack on the twin towers, Bush and company had been working on what they called "regime change" in Iraq, forming an organization called "The Project for the New American Century" (PNAC) in 1997. Among the organizers were Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton and Richard Perle. All were given high offices with the election of George W. Bush in 2000. ...more

June 5, 2008

After losing both houses of Congress in the 1994 election, Bill Clinton expostulated: The president of the United States is not irrelevant! ...more

June 3, 2008

They say that every president gets the psychoanalyst he deserves. And every Hamlet gets his Rosencrantz. ...more

June 3, 2008

Republican insiders see the bitter criticism in Scott McClellan's memoir, "What Happened," as a payback for his abrupt firing as White House press secretary in the spring of 2006. ...more

June 2, 2008

Near the end of "What Happened," Scott McClellan's tough-love critique of President Bush and his failed presidency, he recounts a bizarre and telling moment in the Oval Office. ...more

June 1, 2008

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan defended his bombshell book about the Bush administration on Thursday, saying he didn't speak up against the overselling of war in Iraq at the time because he, like other Americans, gave the president the benefit of the doubt. ...more

May 30, 2008

As President Bush's press secretary, Scott McClellan was a dutiful practitioner of the swift, efficient and highly coordinated strategy the White House typically employs to take on Bush's critics. ...more

May 29, 2008

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war." ...more

May 28, 2008

Once again, as the year comes to a close and media outlets across the nation inundate us with a "special look back" at events we already know about, I will use my prognosticating ability - a superpower, if you will - to gaze into the future and predict what will happen in the coming months, just as I have each year since 1929. ...more

December 29, 2007