This is news?

Raise your hand if this surprises you:

WASHINGTON - Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.
"There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. "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."

Personally, I'm shocked SHOCKED I SAY at the information. Who knew?

Along the same lines, just who do you think is really behind this:

WASHINGTON - In their latest tussle with the White House on the Iraq war, two leading House Democrats said Tuesday the Pentagon was using scare tactics to try to goad Congress into passing another war spending bill.

Am I the only one to see presidential (and vice presidential) fingerprints all over this?

Same old BushandCheany. Lying, deceiving, passing off false information as fact. Just adds to the evidence that this is the most corrupt presidency in the history of the U.S.

But we already knew that, didn't we?

And so it goes.