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Scott McClellan and the Public-Sector Privateers | MediaCulture | AlterNet

Scott McClellan and the Public-Sector Privateers | MediaCulture | AlterNet: "So here we go again. Thanks to Scott McClellan, we now have what we already knew but people like him were afraid to tell us. Everybody lied. No surprise here. McNamara did it, Powell did it -- all these public servants, paid by our tax dollars while working, cashed in by selling books when they got off the payroll. That is the morally bankrupt mess we're in. People of conscience, like Daniel Ellsberg, have been replaced by co-conspirators who only find the truth when they are paid to do so through book contracts. They may refuse to go before Congress while working for us, citing executive privilege, but once they are gone, it's 'Sign me up and send me on a book tour!'"

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