Scott McClellan
 Scott McClellan      (propagandist) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | February 14, 1968 Austin, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin | |||||||||||||
| Parents | • Barr McClellan • Carole Keeton | |||||||||||||
| Spouse | Jill Martinez | |||||||||||||
| Party | Republican, Independent | |||||||||||||
White House Press Secretary (2003–06) for President George W. Bush who later wrote that Bush sold the Iraq war to Americans using a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war."
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Scott McClellan is the former White House Press Secretary (2003–06) for President George W. Bush, he was the 24th person to hold this post. He was also the author of a controversial No. 1 New York Times bestseller about the Bush Administration titled What Happened. He replaced Ari Fleischer as press secretary in July 2003 and worked until May 10, 2006. McClellan was the press secretary who held the position longest under George W. Bush.
He then went to work as Vice President for Communications at Seattle University.[1]
Family
Born in Austin, Texas, McClellan is the youngest son of Carole Keeton, former Texas State Comptroller and former 2006 independent Texas gubernatorial candidate, and attorney Barr McClellan, who has written on the JFK Assassination, supporting the idea that LBJ was behind the assassination.
McClellan's brother Mark headed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and was formerly Commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration. McClellan is the grandson of the late W. Page Keeton, longtime Dean of the University of Texas School of Law and renowned expert in tort law. He married Jill Martinez in November 2003.[2] They have three sons.
Career
In late May, 2008, news articles reported on Scott McClellan's memoir titled What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception in which he writes that President Bush sold the Iraq war to Americans using a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war." McClellan, known during his time as press secretary as a staunch defender of Bush Administration policies and the war in Iraq, writes that Bush aides "had outlined a strategy for carefully orchestrating the coming campaign to aggressively sell the [Iraq] war ... it was all about manipulating sources of opinion to the president's advantage ..." McLellan also admits that he allowed himself to be deceived about the exposure of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and suggests that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby may have worked behind the scenes to coordinate their stories about the Plame leak. [3]. On May 30, 2008, McClellan responded to attacks upon his book from current and former members of the Bush Administration. [4].
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120912033210/http://www.seattleu.edu/news/featureArticle.aspx?id=96545
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/21/AR2005122102272_pf.html
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052703679.html
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/washington/30scottcnd.html
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