Is anybody actually surprised?

Scott McClellan has written a book that is supposed to allow him to wash his hands of the blatant lies he told while he was Bush's Press Secretary. The book is scheduled for release in the spring of 2008. This excerpt was released by the publishing company:

The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.


There was one problem. It was not true.

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself.

Well that is very admirable of you Scott, but I've got to call bullshit. Of course you didn't know, it was your job not to know. But you and everyone else in the country knew. Luckily you've got a little somthing called plausible deniability. That wonderful little use of ignorance that lets you and everyone else in Washington sleep at night(well, that and the booze).