Monday 09 June 2008
by: Laurie Kellman, The Associated Press
Washington - President Bush's former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about
whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent
Valerie Plame's identity. McClellan will testify publicly and under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on June 20
about the White House's role in the leak and its response, his attorneys, Michael and Jane Tigar, said on Monday.
In his new book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan said he
was misled by others, possibly including Cheney, about the role of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the leak. McClellan has
said publicly that Bush and Cheney "directed me to go out there and exonerate Scooter Libby."
The statements prompted House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., to invite McClellan to the hearing
"concerning reported attempts to cover up the involvement of White House officials in the leak of" Plame's identity.
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