What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception | Scott McClellan | An inner circle account of what I feared was happening in the Whitehouse

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	What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception Scott McClellan PublicAffairs, 2008 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 201 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A thoughtful, reflective account: important contribution to history

Michael Hirsh wrote, in Newsweek, a criticism of pundits, asking why the public should acquire this information from McClellan and not the media.
Hello?
"Why do we have to hear this from him?"--because HE WAS THERE. Scott McClellan's THE person to hear it from! And thanks to him for writing the book! His report is far more measured and thoughtful than anything, so far, written by "pundits."

An inner circle account of what I feared was happening in the Whitehouse

This is an incredibly frank account of the inner workings of the Bush White house. This is not from some anti-Bush liberal but a member of the inner circle. Scott McClellan was a loyal "Bushie" from almost the beginning in Texas. His account of systematic deceit which he calls (but did not coin) "the permanent campaign" is telling and alarming.
The book is not a "settle the score" account from a disgruntled employee. In fact, McClellan spends a lot of time defending Bush as a person, his policies and many of his actions. He does not, however, pull any punches when it comes to the activities of coordinated spin, misrepresentations, and out-right lies to the American people, which he was a participant in. Lies which, among other things, landed the US in a costly and unnecessary war in Iraq.
McClellan explains the actual rational the President had for war (and it had little to do with terror or WMDs or anything Bush sold to the American people).
I believe this book will be the definitive answer to many of the questions future historians have about "What Happened" during this disastrous time in our history.
Everyone who cares about America should read this book.

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At last a conscience.

I read this book mostly out of curiosity. I'm glad I did. It's nice to see someone who has a conscience and says that perhaps he was in error, but due to the fact that he was misled. Mr. McClellan appears to be a responsible type, who realized he was used, and has come out to publicly set the record straight. There are those who would take the Mafia approach and claim that Mr. McClellan should have kept things to himself to protect those above him, although they were doing things to mislead the American people. He chose not to take this road and showed us all that mistakes had been made, and we are still paying for them. Others who were around him at the time continue to be deceptive. Mr McClellan should be proud of what he has done.

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some good inside information

not as well written as George Tenet's book, but some good inside info as to the deception behind the "leak", and the drumming up of the reason to go to war with Iraq. Skipped over the chapter about his grandfather tho... wasn't much interested in that topic. Seemed to be more of a "filler" chapter to make the book a bit larger. All in all, some good inside info into our current administration.

GOOD BUT A LOTTA FLUFF

I admire McCllelan as the only one with guts enough to buck the corporate-fascist government of the Cheney / Bush-League administration. The fact that he had to keep talking over the incoming flak in the W.H. seems to have allowed him to feel he could withstand the fox-noise, corporate nightly news, Limbaughed, O'Reely shills, and keep going after he blew the whistle. His view of the Texas and Washington scenes are a little on the gee-whizz side at times, but that's part of his make-up and a big reason the liars thought he be a good shill, too. Too bad (for Cheney/Bush and the gang) that he also had some character.

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