Will McCain acknowledge any of the GWB lies?

Our frustration with impeachment attempts continues to boil, and while certain House members grow in our esteem, it is becoming very evident a full blown coup d' congress is NOT going to happen.

However, opportunity knocks with the upcoming Scott McClellan testimony this Friday, with the bloghounds ready to chase John McCain up a tree.  

Our friend in the press McClatchy reports

WASHINGTON - A House committee subpoenaed yesterday records of the FBI's interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's name.

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Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman, a California Democrat, asked for the transcripts late last year and renewed his request earlier this month after the committee received an unedited transcript of grand jury testimony in which former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was quoted as saying it was "possible" that Cheney had told him to leak Plame's name.

Yesterday a diarist highlighted how, when arguing with that 28% base of Bush believers, he had to reduce his friend to tears, in that all chance of "dignity in Iraq" is impossible because the invasion and occupation were base on lies.

Yellow cake, Curveball, Chalabi, mobile labs, centrifuges, Al-Queda connections....and damn it, the list is pretty much identical to what we were trumpeting in 2002.

Scott McClellan is about to give sworn testimony, focusing primarily on the Plame outing:

House committee demands files from probe of CIA leak

McClellan, who's expected to testify Friday before the House Judiciary Committee, renewed questions about the leak with his book. He wrote that Bush and Cheney directed him to "exonerate" Libby in his daily news briefings and that Cheney may have been among the senior White House officials who knew the truth but encouraged the former spokesman "to repeat a lie." McClellan also contended that Bush told him he had authorized the leak of Plame's name.

Bush said in a 2004 news briefing: "If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of."

Last week, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Keith Nelson turned down the committee's request for the FBI reports on Bush and Cheney, saying that the committee's request "raises serious separation of powers" and confidentiality concerns.

But Waxman said there were "no sound reasons" that the Justice Department couldn't release the documents. He has accused the Justice Department of blocking Fitzgerald from turning over the documents.

But the list of administration lies leading up to Colin Powell's UN presentation can be immediately posed to candidate John McCain as questions.

Did John McCain read the NIE report?

How did he view Sen. Bob Graham's warnings about being mislead, both in 2002 and NOW?

Did he investigate nuclear experts declarations that the centrifuges being cited by Powell were not of sufficient measurements/quality to enrich uranium?

How did he view Gen. Shenseki's testimony about the size of force necessary?

We have a candidate claiming experience, yet who is saber rattling just like Bush...and he needs his bona fides immediately checked (and hopefully checkmated).

Has anyone heard his opinions about the lead up to war in Iraq?

While impeachment may be beyond our control, getting McCain on the record about pre-war intelligence and propaganda is timely and necessary.