McClellan On Libby Verdict: White House Needs To ‘Get Out There And Talk About This’

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McClellan didn’t talk about this quote, leaving it to the current Press Secretary to explain it:

If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said yesterday that the White House will continue its “principled stand” of not commenting on the leak issue.

Transcript:

MCCLELLAN: And I think, Larry, it will be interesting to see if the White House can sustain not talking about this through the appeals process. They sustained it for this long, but I think they would be better served as a communications advisor now. <[b>I would be advising the White House to get out there and find some way to talk about this in enough detail to answer some of questions that David brings up that are still hanging out there.

GERGEN: That’s really interesting, Larry, that he would have come to that position. That’s a very brave decision to take because I’m sure there are former colleagues of his who would like not to go down that path.

MCCLELLAN: Of course, the lawyer’s always the first to say it’s a legal matter. We’re not going to talk about it. But that’s not always the best advice from a communications standpoint, as David knows.

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/mcclellan-get-out-there/

[Lobster Martini]

1. Curious choice of words from Dana Perino

"Principled stand" is not normally synonymous with "hiding underneath the covers until the monsters go away."