Chum Bucket Gets His Revenge

Scottie "chum bucket" McClellan has decided to come clean and reveal that he was indeed pressured by persons including Bush, Rove, Cheney et al to pass bad information to the press on White House involvement in the Valerie Plame leak case. I'm not sure there is anyone left who is surprised by what the former Medicare & Medicaid Services Director's little brother has to say on this subject. Oh wait the Wall Street Journal Editorial page is surprised.

Whether he spills his guts on the Plame affair to vindicate himself or to sell some books it makes no difference to me. I just wish he would have spoken up sooner but, of course he can't comment on an ongoing investigation. I plan to get the book just to read the chapters on why he hates David Gregory and how Jeff Gannon Guckert landed a press pass.

Also curious how the story was not picked up by the American press with the same furor as foreign media outlets. BBC news had it as their lead story for much of the day.