Spin City

USA Today is reporting that "Dealing with criticism that national security adviser Condoleezza Rice wouldn't testify in public before the 10-member commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, White House spokesman Scott McClellan complained last month that when she testified in private, "Only five members actually showed up, despite the fact that it was scheduled for the entire commission," he said. What's more, he added, "you had another national security official under Dr. Rice who met with the commission, and I think only four showed up."

Clearly implying that the 9-11 commission wasn't all that interested in what Condi had to say, if only five members showed up..........

Then the truth comes out, "What McClellan didn't tell reporters was that on Nov. 21 — long before Rice met with the five commissioners in February — the White House counsel's office had sent the commission a letter saying no more than three commissioners could attend meetings with White House aides of Rice's rank.

Given that demand, "we are a little surprised that the White House has repeatedly implied to the public that commissioners were uninterested in attending these meetings," commission spokesman Al Felzenberg said Tuesday.

Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, who did not attend the interview with Rice on Feb. 7, said she finds it "infuriating" that the White House would insinuate commissioners shirked their duty and didn't have a right to press for more time with Rice. "That's hooey," she said.


Scott McClellan, one of the key spokesman for the President, deliberately and intentionally misled the press, and the public.

Quite honestly, I'm sick of posting this garbage.

Dead Parrots Society ask this question, "If the White House spokesman is willing to mislead the country in an attempt to undermine the commission's credibility, are we supposed to continue believing that the administration has provided the commission with "unprecedented cooperation?"

In the words of Fox Moulder, "the truth is out there".